Supervisory Analyst Services

Supervisory analyst support for global financial services firms

Supervisory Analyst Review Services

Supervisory Analyst (SA; series-16 qualified) review and approval has become a bottleneck for timely publication of reports and an area where costs have increased as experienced SAs have become difficult to hire and retain. In an environment where time-to-market is key, a resource needs to be available to review and process reports as and when analysts submit them. At Acuity Knowledge Partners, we provide SA services to sell-side firms. We offer several support models, including full-time and part-time support, depending on client requirements, in an effort to provide flexible yet reliable services at reasonable costs.

We, at Acuity Knowledge Partners, have been working with financial content for over 20 years. Our large Research Publishing team of SAs, editors and formatting & publishing, and design specialists can review, approve, and publish your reports, meeting tough deadlines in a fast-paced work environment and amid a heavy flow of content.

Given our team size and experience, we are able to staff an engagement fairly quickly, need very little hand-holding, and can hit the ground running on most projects.

Our SAs come from tier-1 sell-side firms; we understand the SA market in India.

We also offer senior editors eligible to appear for the series-16 exam. These editors already carry out pre-SA work and can sit for the exam within three months of joining the client.

Who we serve

Supervisory Analyst - Support We offer

Content review

  • Ensure compliance with firm's guidelines and regulatory requirements

  • Ensure recommendations are substantiated by relevant data and rationales are logical, realistic and include an assessment of risks

  • Assess the accuracy of data

  • Ensure rating conformity with the firm’s rating system

Compliance review

  • Make a list of material mentions (stocks with an investment view) in the research report

  • Review the list against Restricted lists and the client’s internal restrictions

  • Coordinate compliance approval for restricted mentions (with Compliance and the analyst)

  • Add additional disclosures, if required

Disclosure review

  • Ensure prominence of disclosures and proper separation of disclosures and other disclaimers Ensure inclusion of relevant disclosures

  • Ensure inclusion of relevant disclosures

SA Support models

    We provide tailor-made solutions, depending on the client’s requirements

    • Pre Supervisory Analyst Support: Senior editors, in the course of an editorial review, escalate and resolve regulatory issues with the analyst. This significantly reduces the turnaround time for SA approval and increases productivity

    • Supervisory Analyst Support from India: Senior (with over 5 years of S-16 approval experience) or Associate (over 2 years) level SAs

    • Supervisory Analyst Support from Europe: Senior/Associate SAs

    • Senior editors for the SA exam: Senior editors who can sit for the S-16 exam (to be sponsored by the client), offering a significant cost advantage versus hiring qualified SAs

    • Direct hiring from the UK and the US

    • Part-time support

What we have delivered to Supervisory Analyst Review function

25+

Client engagements and publishing teams supported, contributing to our best practices

20+

Years of deep domain knowledge

30-40%

Cost savings achieved

24x5

Support round- the-clock editing, formatting and publishing support

How we are different

RESEARCH PEDIGREE
RESEARCH PEDIGREE
Over 20 years’ experience in providing Research Publishing support to banks globally
NEARSHORE CAPABILITIES
NEARSHORE CAPABILITIES
50+-member team of Supervisory Analysts, editors, and formatting & design specialists based in Bangalore (India), Colombo (Sri Lanka) and San Jose (Costa Rica)
PROCESS OPTIMISATION
PROCESS OPTIMISATION
Work across the Research Publishing life cycle: design templates, and edit, format, Supervisory Analyst approve, and publish/disseminate research
TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY
Experience with various third-party/in-house Research Publishing platforms – FactSet Partners, Blue Matrix and BlueCurve
SCALABILITY
SCALABILITY
Ability to hit the ground running. Successfully transitioned and execute multiple engagement models: (1) lift-and-shift of in-house Publishing teams; (2) supplement onshore Publishing teams and (3) support clients that don’t have onshore teams

Platform Expertise

We are adept at using various research production/publishing platforms, compliance and content management platforms and software to enhance our Supervisory Analyst Review support

What we have done

Support for Consulting and Corporate Firms
Research Publishing with supervisory analyst support for an EMEA-based bank
What we are proud of

25+

client analysts supported

SA, editing, formatting and publishing, and platform administration

In the News

Middle East Insurance Review
Boosting impact investment for insurers in MENA
Read More
BW Businessworld
Lower volatility dents global banks’ FICC business in Q1
Read More
The Morning Context
Retail investors to stay cautious, focus on valuation and assess the debt and profitability ratios before investing.
Read More
Thank you for sharing your details

Share this on