Data Support Services for Investment Research
Published on: 30 Jul 2025
Last updated: 30 Jul 2025
Comprehensive Coverage of Financial Asset Classes
Robust Investment Research involves the detailed study and analysis of various financial instruments, markets, and economic trends to identify potential investment opportunities and aid in making informed investment decisions. Investment Research Services cover everything an investor or financial professional might need to know to allocate capital effectively.
This is where investors and financial professionals inevitably rely on online data products to make decisions on diversification, risk management, and strategic asset allocation.
There are many robust online financial data products and platforms that institutional investors and companies subscribe to for making financial decisions for their customers. These platforms provide a wide array of data, analytics, research, and tools. They often leverage advanced technology like AI and machine learning to deliver insights, or rely on custom research for niche-level and specialised market information.
Online data and information products need to be updated with fresh data on a daily basis.
To keep your financial data products fuelled with real time market information, you need a dependable data partner who can provide you with an extension to your own research team.
Custom Research for Specialised Market Information
Companies like Ascentrik Research work as data partners providing custom investment research services to multinational research organisations. We provide a comprehensive coverage of various asset classes within the public and private markets.
We cover traditional asset classes like Public equity. We specialise in Alternative Investments or Private Capital like private equity, venture capital, private debt, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure, derivatives, commodities, agricultural investments, and new emerging tech.
Over the years Ascentrik has stood out as one of the very few providers of custom or bespoke research services in various areas of the b2b data market. Our strength lies in our ability to combine technology with human research methods. This enables us to make available data that is niche and hard-to-find. We also provide quality and accuracy assurances that none of our competitors’ provide.
Our USP’s for Support Services in Investment Research
Data Coverage: Breadth and depth of data across desired asset classes, geographies, and company types.
Data Accuracy and Reliability: Critical for making sound decisions.
Integration Capabilities: APIs and feeds for seamless integration with internal systems.
Customization: Ability to tailor dashboards, reports, and workflows.
User Interface and Experience: Ease of use for analysts and portfolio managers.
Support and Service: We offer real-time client support as we work closely with the client’s team.
Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring data sources and platforms meet necessary regulations.
We offer alerts on the latest industry trends, and provide information on stakeholders involved like general and limited partners (GP/LP).
We research Market Trends, Mergers and Acquisitions, Buyouts, New IPO Listings, Investments etc. in multiple industries. We conduct Sector analysis, SWOT analysis and Competition research.
Key Benefits of Secondary Investment Research to your Data Products
We conduct Macroeconomic Research on global and national economic trends, interest rates, inflation, GDP growth, geopolitical events, etc., to understand their impact on markets.
Our research on Asset Class Allocation helps decide how to distribute investments across different asset classes (e.g., 60% equities, 30% bonds, 10% alternatives). This is where "Asset Classes Research” heavily feeds in.
Security Selection (within asset classes) is where we conduct granular analysis of individual investments within a chosen asset class.
- Equity Research: This focuses on individual stocks.
- Fixed Income Research: Analyzing individual bonds (government, corporate), creditworthiness of issuers, interest rate movements, etc.
- Alternative Investment Research: Due diligence on specific private equity funds, hedge funds, real estate projects, etc.Quantitative Analysis: Using statistical models, algorithms, and data analytics to identify patterns, evaluate risks, and predict market movements.
Risk Management: Identifying, measuring, and mitigating various financial risks (market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, operational risk).
Performance Attribution: Analyzing the drivers behind investment performance (what worked, what didn't).
Regulatory and Legal Analysis: Understanding how regulations impact investment strategies and compliance.
To summarise, our research helps subscribers to your data products answer the question: "Where should I put my money, and what specific investments should I choose to achieve my financial goals while managing risk?"
Key Benefits of Asset Classes Research to your Data Products
Our research on Asset Classes gives insight into the characteristics, historical performance, risk-return profiles, and interrelationships of different asset classes. It provides a high-level view that helps in strategic asset allocation decisions.
Key aspects of our secondary research on Asset Classes includes:
Defining Asset Class Characteristics: Understanding what makes equities, bonds, real estate, commodities, alternative investments, cash, etc., unique. This includes their typical liquidity, volatility, income generation, and capital appreciation potential.
Historical Performance Analysis: Examining how different asset classes have performed over various economic cycles and time horizons.
Risk-Return Profiling: Quantifying the inherent risks (e.g., market risk, interest rate risk, credit risk) and expected returns for each asset class.
Correlation Analysis: Understanding how different asset classes move in relation to each other. Low or negative correlation is crucial for diversification. For example, bonds might perform well when stocks are declining.
Economic Sensitivity: How each asset class reacts to changes in macroeconomic factors like inflation, interest rates, economic growth, and geopolitical events.
Strategic Allocation Guidance: Providing insights and models for long-term asset allocation based on different investor profiles (e.g., conservative, moderate, aggressive) and their time horizons.
Trends within Asset Classes: Identifying broad trends impacting an entire asset class (e.g., the rise of private credit within fixed income, or the increasing institutionalisation of cryptocurrencies as an alternative asset).
In essence, Asset Classes Research aims to answer the question: "What are the fundamental properties and behaviors of different investment categories, and how can they be combined to achieve diversification and specific portfolio objectives?"
Key Benefits of Custom Reports
Ascentrik specialises in creation of customised reports for individual clients. We source and build this information from the ground up so that it is unique to your needs. An important benefit here is exclusivity. Your data will be unique from that of your competitors.
Custom Reports: These are reports specifically designed and created for a single client, addressing their unique financial questions, investment portfolios, or market interests. They involve in-depth, bespoke analysis to provide highly relevant and actionable insights. Due to their tailored nature, they are generally more expensive and take longer to produce, offering proprietary information not available elsewhere.
Syndicated Reports: These are pre-existing, standardized reports published by research firms, available for purchase by multiple users or subscribers. They cover broad market trends, industry overviews, or general economic conditions. While less expensive and immediately accessible, they offer general insights applicable to a wide audience rather than tailored solutions for specific client needs.
Conclusion:
We have significant in-house expertise which enables us to conduct comprehensive financial research for clients even across industries like metals, mining and industrial minerals. We specialize in ‘hard-to-find’ information, thanks to established knowledge of the markets we serve.
So partner with us to extend the capabilities of your research team, cost-effectively, with a quick turnaround time and scalability to match your growing business. All this with customised and compliant data, to meet the demand for exclusivity among top industry professionals.
Ascentrik Research is uniquely positioned to be your extended team for secondary data support services for financial data research. Our emphasis on customized services and human-driven research ensures that the data you receive is not just information, but a strategic asset. By partnering with us, you gain access to niche, high-quality, and current data that directly integrates with your existing products, offering a powerful advantage in the competitive landscape of financial data products.
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