ResearchWave
Intelligent Research Management
Our Mission
ResearchWave is an intelligent management, distribution and sales platform for research. Our goal is to provide the investment community with easy access to a comprehensive library of research and consulting, both as a primary source of research and as a compliment to in-house or sell-side research.
Our Goal
ResearchWave intends to assist you by organizing your third-party research. Not only is it easy to retrieve relevant research on our system, but also we organize your billing and payments through automated processing. Using ResearchWave, it's easy to manage all aspects of subscriptions for yourself and your group. Unique to ResearchWave, you can pay for your research using hard-dollars and/or soft-dollars generated with firms you trade through. There is no fee to use ResearchWave, and our Fair Pricing Policy guarantees that subscriptions obtained through our platform are the best rates you can get from these third-party independent research providers.
Benefits
This service provides access to a broad and deep selection of quality independent research reports, market commentary, subscriptions and consultancy services. If there's a provider you don't see in our network, we'll be happy to contact them upon your request.
Using proprietary technologies, ResearchWave.com analyzes how each user reacts to the research they are shown. The system then employs statistical relational learning to tailor itself to each user's preferences regarding analysts and firms; security types; sectors; countries and regions; research approaches and methodologies; recommendation sentiments; companies; indexes; commodities and exchanges. ResearchWave offers tools like MyResearchWave, Login Manager, Portfolio Monitor, custom search requests and WaveRatings to help clients to keep their research organized and easily accessible.
Further distinguishing ResearchWave's service is the comprehensive payment system. Order processing and fulfillment operations are streamlined into one central location, with transactions being recorded and tracked in real-time. ResearchWave's clients can pay for research with cash (hard dollars), commission arrangements (soft dollars) or CSA's (commission sharing arrangements). Subscription allocations are easy to manage within buy-side firms. Similarly, sell-side dealer desks can allocate soft-dollar credits to their clients and send free trial coupons to initiate immediate access to research of their choice.
Moreover, ResearchWave offers independent research providers a marketing and distribution platform to deliver research to institutional investors. ResearchWave.com is a secure platform that allows the research provider control over content delivery and pricing, while ResearchWave staff handles invoicing and collections.
Institutions can access credible and compliant research using ResearchWave as a primary source of research or as a complement to in-house and/or broker dealer research. ResearchWave provides financial professionals with convenience, selection, and a customized solution for their research needs. Register now, for your login and password.
Key Benefits to Buyside Users
ResearchWave is not simply an aggregator of quality independent research. Key aspects of ResearchWave make it unique:
- Proprietary Technologies: ResearchWave analyzes how each user reacts to the research they are shown. The system then employs relational learning methods to tailor itself to each user’s preferences regarding analysts and firms; security types; sectors; countries and regions; research approaches and methodologies; recommendation sentiments; companies; indexes; commodities and exchanges.
- Cost Effectiveness: ResearchWave charges no fee to use filters and controls, and research that is purchased on ResearchWave has a best price guarantee.
- Administrative Ease: Order processing and fulfillment operations are streamlined into one central location, with transactions being recorded and tracked in real-time. ResearchWave’s clients can pay for research with cash (hard dollars) and/or commission arrangements (soft dollars).
- RMS: In addition to providing third-party/independent research, ResearchWave also offers a complete Research Management System that allows you to manage in-house and sell-side research by enabling you to efficiently search all documents within your computers, networks, servers, e-mails and attachments as well as trawling the internet for news and blogs. Please call us at 212.202.5563 x1, to discuss.
- PRESENTATION: Click here for an overview presentation of our services and to learn more about the benefits of using ResearchWave.
Key Benefits to Sellside Commission Managers
- Increased Trading Revenue: ResearchWave is a revenue generating service you can offer to your clients that is independent, credible and unconflicted. You can send clients FREE TRIAL coupons and easily facilitate payment for third-party research using their earned commission credits.
- Consolidation: ResearchWave can handle invoicing from hundreds of research providers, for each of your clients.
- Visibility: Buy-side professionals will see your firm listed as a soft-dollar provider, based upon the credit you allocate to them.
- Facilitation: Sell-side firms can give their buy-side clients pre-approved credit limits that can be employed for purchasing research products on the spot.
- Awareness: ResearchWave alerts you immediately when a client wants to use your soft-dollars.
- Compliance: ResearchWave is compliant with all SEC and FSA rules and regulations governing 28(e) practices.
- Security: The ResearchWave platform incorporates advanced security measures so your account information and history are protected.
- Customized Interface: All development is done in-house by our programmers on staff. Please contact us to discuss initiation of : Delivery of your sell-side research and/or Morning Notes to your clients; Click-through trading for your clients; Receipt of specialized reports for order processing or push/pull interaction with your commission accounting to reconcile with ResearchWave; ...
Key Benefits to Research Providers
- Dedication: ResearchWave has built a proprietary platform to market and deliver your research directly to the end user – giving you an efficient means to showcase your analysis. ResearchWave promotes several communications channels including email, conference calls, multimedia broadcasts, online forums, webinars and more.
- Easy To Use: Our platform emphasizes ease of use – after uploading your research, we handle the archiving, distribution, and billing.
- Intelligence Marketing: ResearchWave has advanced search facilities that recommends relevant research from our IRP sources to our end users – broadening the market for your research.
- Easy Invoicing: ResearchWave will manage your invoicing and payment processing – so that you can focus on your strength: producing high quality research.
- Independence: ResearchWave is completely independent, having no investment banking ties, no broker dealer obligations and no trading activities – our independence is your guarantee of a level playing field.
- Soft-dollars: ResearchWave has built a network of soft dollar providers – so you can get paid from both hard and soft dollar sources, with ease.
- Custom Web Presence: At ResearchWave, you can have a custom webpage with your contact information, biographical and historical details, logo, photos, etc. – which enhances your brand globally.
- Security: The ResearchWave platform incorporates advanced security measures – your webpage, research, and distribution is protected.
- Consulting Services: Our clients use ResearchWave as a resource for in-house consulting projects. ResearchWave will facilitate the hiring of research consultants for short term and long term projects.