Aftermarket Research for Corporate, Financial, and Consulting Firms

In today’s fast-changing world where markets are ever-shifting, financial and corporate organizations need quick and sophisticated insights to inform strategy and smarter decision-making. Aftermarket research (AMR) provides premium, differentiated insights that can give you the competitive edge.

Traditionally only used by sell-side firms, aftermarket research is now an integral strategic resource for corporations, consultancies, PE firms, and investment banks (among others). Yet many are still relying on traditional research methods that involve multiple search engine queries, hours spent parsing through disparate sources, and frustrating broker paywalls.

AlphaSense transforms the research process by providing access to top aftermarket research and other premium content and data sources, such as Wall Street Insights®, in seconds.

With AlphaSense, clients can eliminate time-consuming barriers to insight, modernize the market research process, and access leading aftermarket research in an indexed and centralized content library — all easily navigable using cutting-edge AI-powered search capabilities.

Aftermarket Research: What It Is and Why You Need It

Aftermarket research is any broker (equity) research that is not available for real-time consumption. It offers valuable insights into both financial markets and the investment landscape to help guide decisions for leaders in several types of entities, including:

• Corporations
• Private equity firms
• Investment banks
• Consulting firms

In contrast, real-time market research is available to eligible users (most notably, buy-side investors and investor relations) based on entitlements and is paid for directly by clients to brokers through trading commissions or hard dollar agreements.

Meanwhile, aftermarket research is made available after a 0-15 day delay. It features many of the same documents and insights as real-time research, but follows a secondary market model that eliminates the need for entitlements and makes it accessible to a wider audience.

Aftermarket research is generally used for idea generation, competitive research, monitoring peers, and getting up to speed on industry trends. It is not used for trading ideas. As such, the access delay doesn’t diminish its value to clients.

AlphaSense offers one of the most comprehensive sets of AMR available today, including the exclusive Wall Street Insights® collection for corporate clients, as well as an extremely competitive set of bulge-bracket and mid-tier broker reports for consulting and financial services firms.

In today’s fast-moving and always-evolving business landscapes, AlphaSense offers the invaluable ability to access a wide range of market research reports in one centralized location. At the same time, it offers unmatched AI search capabilities that find and extract insights in seconds, speeding up time to insight and increasing research confidence.

Aftermarket Research for Corporations

While broker research may have once been primarily intended for financial audiences, corporate strategy professionals are increasingly leveraging aftermarket reports to maintain ongoing market and competitive intelligence, monitor market trends, and stay on the pulse of other important macro topics and themes.

Traditionally, corporate strategy research methods required hours spent combing through multiple search engines and other research distribution channels — often only to find that the real insights are hidden behind paywalls. And that’s if a corporate professional is even aware of the value in Wall Street research to begin with. This approach is no longer practical for corporations that want to be competitive in high-speed markets.

AlphaSense’s exclusive Wall Street Insights® library is the only research collection designed and purpose-built for corporate clients, providing unprecedented access to a deep pool of research reports from thousands of expert analysts.

Powered by partnerships with top brokers like Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Cowen, Barclays, HSBC, Bernstein, and Evercore ISI, Wall Street Insights® enables corporate professionals to access the top research available on the market — indexed, searchable, and all in one place.

Aftermarket Research for Investment Banks

For investment banks, aftermarket equity research reports provide critical in-depth insights that inform ongoing M&A and advisory strategies. AMR enables investment bankers to analyze trading patterns, extract investor sentiment, monitor important market trends, and use these collective insights to help clients make better investment decisions.

Ongoing access to aftermarket research on the AlphaSense platform also helps investment banks stay more generally attuned to market dynamics and be first movers on emerging opportunities.

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Aftermarket Research for Private Equity

For private equity firms, aftermarket research is an essential part of building smart investment strategies and optimizing portfolio management.

Aftermarket reports deliver valuable company- and industry-level insights that enable PE firms to analyze key metrics such as operational performance, market size, market share, profitability, growth rate and potential, and competitive position.

Collectively, these insights drive smarter decisions around investment, exit, and growth opportunities while also delivering advantages such as more precise timing and comprehensive risk management.

In the AlphaSense platform, PE firms can level up these capabilities even further with features like automated alerts and customized watchlists that allow them to track targets over time and never miss a critical update.

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Aftermarket Research for Consulting

For consulting firms, aftermarket research is a competitive differentiator that enhances the level of expertise they can offer to clients. Armed with sophisticated aftermarket insights, consulting firms can provide clients with more confident, accurate, and data-driven advice that helps them understand their target market, make smarter decisions, and operate more strategically. It also enables them to create stronger, more confident proposals for their clients.

Consulting firms also leverage AMR reports to uncover wider market and industry trends, follow how competitive landscapes are changing, and identify emerging opportunities — all of which can be used to accelerate growth for their own organizations and help clients do the same.

In the AlphaSense platform, consulting firms can access aftermarket research on a range of companies, industries, and global markets, allowing them to widen the scope of their services, develop deeper knowledge and expertise in different specialty areas, and instantly gain insight into new or unfamiliar topics and trends.

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AlphaSense Streamlines Aftermarket Research Consumption

With the AlphaSense platform, clients can streamline and optimize their aftermarket research process while maximizing ROI on the reports they access. Research teams can utilize in-platform collaboration tools to enhance data sharing and manage sources with interactive features like table tools integration, notebook, and saved snippets.

Easy export capabilities and the ability to select certain pages to print allow you to pull out the insights you need without being bogged down by long documents.

Most powerfully of all, you’ll have access to all the aftermarket research sources you need in a single platform, all easily searchable and consumable with unmatched AI and generative AI capabilities such as:

Generative Search

Generative Search, now with Deep Research capabilities, transforms how users can extract insights from our vast library of premium content sources. Generative Search is trained to think like an analyst, so it understands the market research intent behind your natural language queries.

When searching for insights, Generative Search helps you get up to speed on a company or topic by instantly surfacing the answers you need. You can dig deeper into topics by asking follow-up questions or choosing a suggested query. Each answer provides citations to the exact snippet of text from where the information was sourced, so that it can always be referenced.

Smart Summaries

This feature allows you to glean instant earnings insights (reducing time spent on research during earnings season), quickly capture company outlook and bull/bear cases from analyst research, and generate an expert-approved SWOT analysis straight from former competitors, partners, and employees. All summaries provide you with citations to the exact snippets of text from where the summaries are sourced — combining high accuracy with easy verification.

Generative Grid

Our newest generative AI tool, Generative Grid, applies multiple genAI prompts on many documents at the same time to quickly provide organized answers to research questions at scale, in an easy-to-read table format. This enables clients to summarize documents using pre-built criteria to save time when executing repeatable workflows.

Generative Grid pulls data from both premium external documents in the AlphaSense platform and users’ internal content. From there, users can choose preset templates or create their own to automate routine workflows. Each summary provides a direct citation to the source material it was pulled from.

Smart Synonyms™

Smart Synonyms™ is an exclusive AlphaSense feature that recognizes the intent behind every search and delivers results for both the exact search terms and related keywords.

At the same time, this technology recognizes when results aren’t relevant and automatically filters them out, cutting unnecessary noise and eliminating extra hours of research to get you straight to the insights you need.

Monitoring, Analysis, and Collaboration Tools

AlphaSense is designed to help users find insights faster. We offer a number of tools that extend beyond search and summarization to help users accelerate research tasks.

• Customizable dashboards create a centralized information hub for monitoring key companies and themes, while tailored alerts provide real-time updates.
• Powerful collaboration tools like Notebook+ and commenting features help teams manage and share insights more effectively.
• Table Tools allow you to move faster with spreadsheet-style visualizations directly from company filings, so you can chain together, edit, and optimize tables for analysis.
• Image Search allows you to discover insights buried in charts to quickly capture data without reading through pages of documents.
• Snippet Explorer allows you to effortlessly look at any topic or theme and all its historical mentions in a single view.
• Automated Monitoring allows you to set up real-time alerts that send instant updates on any relevant market movements, news, emerging trends, and competitor activities. We also generate snapshots of companies and topics regularly that keep you ahead of the curve with actionable insights.