Leading Independent Investment Research, Morningstar, Inc.

Morningstar

Leading Independent Investment Research

Morningstar, Inc.

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. We offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors. 

Morningstar provides data on more than 500,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 16 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with more than $180 billion in assets under advisement or management as of June 30, 2015. We have operations in 27 countries.

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

The Morningstar® Exponential Technology Index is designed to provide exposure to equities identified by Morningstar’s Equity Research team as positioned to experience meaningful economic benefits as a user or producer of promising technologies.The index consists of 200 stocks that are equally weighted. It is reconstituted annually in December. This report was originally published in December following the reconstitution, but is being republished here as a fork of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/profiles/346" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="accounts:346">CM Research</a> latest note <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/big-data-as-an-investment-theme" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:2975">Big Data as an Investment Theme</a>, to highlight ways to get exposure to this and other important themes.In addition to details of the Index constituents, subscribers will find a presentation on the index methodology attached.

The Morningstar® Exponential Technology Index is designed to provide exposure to equities identified by Morningstar’s Equity Research team as positioned to experience meaningful economic benefits as a user or producer of promising technologies.The index consists of 200 stocks that are equally weighted. It is reconstituted annually in December. This report was originally published in December following the reconstitution, but is being republished here as a fork of CM Research latest note Big Data as an Investment Theme, to highlight ways to get exposure to this and other important themes.In addition to details of the Index constituents, subscribers will find a presentation on the index methodology attached.

Thematic Investing in Tech and Media, CM Research

Cyrus Mewawalla

Thematic Investing in Tech and Media

Thematic TMT investing

CM Research

CM Research is an independent research house based in London, England. We provide global thematic research in the Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) sectors. 

Our focus is on disruptive technologies: how will they unfold; which industries will be impacted; and who will be the ultimate winners and losers. 

Our aim is to help investors predict share prices and corporate executives stay one step ahead of the technology trends that are shaping their industry. 

We research technology investment themes in detail and then feed the results into a scorecard system to quantify the impact of several conflicting themes on individual stocks. 

Recent themes covered include internet TV, the Internet of Things, Big Data, Mobile payments, crowdfunding, artificial intelligence, the cloud, software defined networking and Generation Hashtag.

We cover the top 500 global TMT stocks by market capitalisation and several technology start-ups and pre-IPO companies too. 

In 2015, CM Research analysts outperformed the Bloomberg Benchmark Analyst Index - which measures how good analysts are at predicting stock prices - by 7.1%.

During this decade, the digital data universe is expected to grow 75-fold from 1.2 zettabytes to 90 zettabytes. (1 zettabyte = 1 trillion gigabytes).Ask any CEO how he expects to sell more products and cut more costs and he will tell you that Big Data features prominently in his strategy. Big Data refers to the technology processes by which companies can profit from the large amounts of data to which they have access.But investors who want to ride the Big Data wave are finding that it is not that easy to identify where to invest.In this report, we delve deep down into the Big Data supply chain and look at where the investment opportunities really lie.&nbsp;

During this decade, the digital data universe is expected to grow 75-fold from 1.2 zettabytes to 90 zettabytes. (1 zettabyte = 1 trillion gigabytes).Ask any CEO how he expects to sell more products and cut more costs and he will tell you that Big Data features prominently in his strategy. Big Data refers to the technology processes by which companies can profit from the large amounts of data to which they have access.But investors who want to ride the Big Data wave are finding that it is not that easy to identify where to invest.In this report, we delve deep down into the Big Data supply chain and look at where the investment opportunities really lie.&nbsp;

Information Technology Consultant

Ishita Jain

From retail deliveries to agriculture, drones have pervaded our day to day lives in a manner never envisaged before. Reserved only for the military just a few years ago, drones are quickly becoming favorites in many industries due to their low cost, ease of operation and effectiveness in carrying out otherwise manual tasks. This article sets out to introduce the industry and offer some ideas on how to invest in it.

From retail deliveries to agriculture, drones have pervaded our day to day lives in a manner never envisaged before. Reserved only for the military just a few years ago, drones are quickly becoming favorites in many industries due to their low cost, ease of operation and effectiveness in carrying out otherwise manual tasks. This article sets out to introduce the industry and offer some ideas on how to invest in it.

Differentiated global TMT & Internet Research

New Street Research Insights

New Street Research

Research is provided by our team of experienced analysts. Our work is idea driven, based on independence of thought, sector expertise, and firmly focused on fundamentals and valuation of telecoms and internet names globally. New Street is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Singapore and Australia. 

New Street Research is an independent, partner-owned, research firm specialising in equity and debt research. Our equity research embraces the following sectors:

Pan European Telecom Services and Cable
US Telecoms, Cable, Satellite and Towers
Global Emerging Market Telecoms
Japan Telecoms
Asian Internet
Pan European Healthcare
US Healthcare
Japanese Healthcare

We also provide debt research on:
Pan European Telecom Services and Cable

Equity Bottom-Up

The market seems to view <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/26" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26">Tencent Holdings Ltd</a> (Tencent) as an online games company which also owns WeChat (the WhatsApp of China). We think this under represents the potential at Tencent. For a start Tencent also owns mobile QQ and the two platforms have the highest number of monthly active users (MAU) and highest average usage in China. Tencent is able to monetize directly through games and indirectly through high user engagement. Tis high level of engagement is attractive to advertisers while evolving advertising technology (Adtech) should enhance growth prospects. We expect Tencent's ad growth top be 3x that at <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/179" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:179">Baidu Inc Spon Adr</a> (BIDU) in the next 5 years, mirroring the experience of Facebook vs Google in the US. Tencent remains a key thematic idea at New Street Research as it increasingly monetizes its vast user base. The current share price correction looks like an opportunity.

The market seems to view Tencent Holdings Ltd (Tencent) as an online games company which also owns WeChat (the WhatsApp of China). We think this under represents the potential at Tencent. For a start Tencent also owns mobile QQ and the two platforms have the highest number of monthly active users (MAU) and highest average usage in China. Tencent is able to monetize directly through games and indirectly through high user engagement. Tis high level of engagement is attractive to advertisers while evolving advertising technology (Adtech) should enhance growth prospects. We expect Tencent's ad growth top be 3x that at Baidu Inc Spon Adr (BIDU) in the next 5 years, mirroring the experience of Facebook vs Google in the US. Tencent remains a key thematic idea at New Street Research as it increasingly monetizes its vast user base. The current share price correction looks like an opportunity.

Tencent's Multiple Platforms Deliver Key Advantages

Global Asset Allocation, Politics & Governance, Ecstrat

John-Paul Smith

Global Asset Allocation, Politics & Governance

Ecstrat

Ecstrat is a consultancy advising on asset allocation between global equity markets, with a focus on the intersection of governments, geopolitics, governance and markets.
 
Over the past few years and more especially since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), investors have become more focused on short-term market movements and real-time returns and have consequently neglected the analysis of the underlying structural themes that underpin longer term performance.
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More specifically we believe that the evolution of governance-based relationships between investors, controlling shareholders, labour and the state is one of the primary determinants of both relative and absolute performance between individual equity markets.
 
We will endeavour to provide investors with some of the context surrounding governance-related issues which encompass many different disciplines including history, economics and political science, as well as the financial metrics which are the most obvious manifestation of the structural characteristics of each market.
 
We will pay particular attention to the shifts and potential inflection points for governance in individual markets as these are often the best lead indicators for both economic and market performance.

Cross Asset Strategy

In January’s ‘Government and Markets’ report, we used the themes in the 2016 GEM overview and China outlooks to introduce our intra-GEM country weightings.We provide more detail on each of these countries in the full version of this report, focusing on the economic, financial and structural governance issues that we believe will be the most important market drivers over the course of this year and beyond.

In January’s ‘Government and Markets’ report, we used the themes in the 2016 GEM overview and China outlooks to introduce our intra-GEM country weightings.We provide more detail on each of these countries in the full version of this report, focusing on the economic, financial and structural governance issues that we believe will be the most important market drivers over the course of this year and beyond.

Governance, Valuations and the Crisis of State Capitalism

China

Baidu, Inc. operates an Internet search engine. The Company offers algorithmic search, enterprise search, news, MP3, and image searches, voice assistance, online storage, and navigation services. Baidu serves clients globally.

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Morningstar Exponential Technology Index

The Morningstar® Exponential Technology Index is designed to provide exposure to equities identified by Morningstar’s Equity Research team as...

Morningstar, Inc.

Big Data as an Investment Theme

During this decade, the digital data universe is expected to grow 75-fold from 1.2 zettabytes to 90 zettabytes. (1 zettabyte = 1 trillion...

CM Research

Investing in Drones

From retail deliveries to agriculture, drones have pervaded our day to day lives in a manner never envisaged before. Reserved only for the military...

Ishita Jain

Tencent's Multiple Platforms Deliver Key Advantages

The market seems to view Tencent Holdings Ltd (Tencent) as an online games company which also owns WeChat (the WhatsApp of China). We think this...

New Street Research

Governance, Valuations and the Crisis of State Capitalism

In January’s ‘Government and Markets’ report, we used the themes in the 2016 GEM overview and China outlooks to introduce our intra-GEM country...

John-Paul Smith

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