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AI-powered Investment Research for

Asset Managers, Wealth Managers & Sell-side Teams

Investment analysts + AI Invest Studio + full research ecosystem.

SG Analytics (SGA), a Straive company, is the data, research, analytics and AI partner to asset managers, hedge funds, wealth management firms, private banks, institutional brokerage and sell-side research firms. We cover over 5,000 entities across all 11 GICS sectors in developed, emerging and frontier markets. We also handle the full investment lifecycle from idea generation through portfolio monitoring and client reporting.

AI-powered Investment Research

5,000+

Entities covered across developed, emerging & frontier markets

11

GICS sectors covered, equities & fixed income

~30%

Reduction in investment operating costs

11+

Specialized AI tools in the Invest Studio

40–60%

Reduction in research turnaround time

AI-powered Investment Research for

Asset Managers, Wealth Managers & Sell-side Teams

Investment analysts + AI Invest Studio + full research ecosystem.

SG Analytics (SGA), a Straive company, is the data, research, analytics and AI partner to asset managers, hedge funds, wealth management firms, private banks, institutional brokerage and sell-side research firms. We cover over 5,000 entities across all 11 GICS sectors in developed, emerging and frontier markets. We also handle the full investment lifecycle from idea generation through portfolio monitoring and client reporting.

5,000+

Entities covered across developed, emerging & frontier markets

11

GICS sectors covered, equities & fixed income

~30%

Reduction in investment operating costs

11+

Specialized AI tools in the Invest Studio

40–60%

Reduction in research turnaround time
Initiation reports, models, earnings reviews, client reports

The entire research output is being rewritten in weeks, not years.

The outputs investment teams produce are not going away. These include initiation reports, earnings previews and reviews, financial models, sector primers, RFP responses, client reports and portfolio dashboards. However, the economics of producing them have changed irreversibly. What used to take an analyst a full week now happens in a single session. What used to require a team of associates compiling data is now a simple agent task. Alpha no longer sits in production. It sits in the synthesis, judgment and signal extraction that production used to crowd out. SGA Invest Hub is built entirely around that shift. We bring twenty years of experience as a trusted research extension. We have now re-architected this practice around our proprietary AI Invest Studio alongside a human-in-the-loop operating model. This setup is perfectly engineered for institutional-grade research and portfolio work.
5,000+ entities | 11 GICS sectors | 20+ years
Initiation reports
Initiation reports, models, earnings reviews, client reports

The entire research output is being rewritten in weeks, not years.

The outputs investment teams produce are not going away. These include initiation reports, earnings previews and reviews, financial models, sector primers, RFP responses, client reports and portfolio dashboards. However, the economics of producing them have changed irreversibly. What used to take an analyst a full week now happens in a single session. What used to require a team of associates compiling data is now a simple agent task. Alpha no longer sits in production. It sits in the synthesis, judgment and signal extraction that production used to crowd out. SGA Invest Hub is built entirely around that shift. We bring twenty years of experience as a trusted research extension. We have now re-architected this practice around our proprietary AI Invest Studio alongside a human-in-the-loop operating model. This setup is perfectly engineered for institutional-grade research and portfolio work.
Four audiences.
Every seat in investment management.
Each gets a dedicated practice with its own research workflow, its own AI tools and its own engagement model. Pick yours to jump to the playbook built specifically for you.

Asset Managers & Hedge Funds

Equity research, fixed income and credit research, idea generation, financial modeling and forecasting, asset valuation and portfolio analytics for alpha-enhancing asset management.

Wealth Management & Private Banks

Client-ready investment research, model portfolios, financial planning content, CIO-office support and AI-generated client reports across equities, fixed income and alternatives.

Institutional Brokerage & Sell-side

Sector-focused fundamental research, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and white-labelled research for institutional brokerage and independent sell-side research firms

IR & Fund Marketing

RFP responses, fund marketing collateral, IR content, AI-powered client report generation and investor reporting for asset management IR and fund marketing teams.

Four audiences.
Every seat in investment management.
Each gets a dedicated practice with its own research workflow, its own AI tools and its own engagement model. Pick yours to jump to the playbook built specifically for you.

Asset Managers & Hedge Funds

Equity research, fixed income and credit research, idea generation, financial modeling and forecasting, asset valuation and portfolio analytics for alpha-enhancing asset management.

Wealth Management & Private Banks

Client-ready investment research, model portfolios, financial planning content, CIO-office support and AI-generated client reports across equities, fixed income and alternatives.

Institutional Brokerage & Sell-side

Sector-focused fundamental research, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and white-labelled research for institutional brokerage and independent sell-side research firms

IR & Fund Marketing

RFP responses, fund marketing collateral, IR content, AI-powered client report generation and investor reporting for asset management IR and fund marketing teams.

Macro to client report.
End-to-end research support in one practice.
SGA covers every stage of the investment research lifecycle across equities, fixed income, credit and alternatives. We do this with a combination of AI tooling from the AI Invest Studio and expert delivery from our 3-layer execution team.
STAGE 01

Macro & sector research

  • Macroeconomic and sector analysis
  • Newsletters with controversy tracking & watchlists
  • Strategy reports & thematic research
  • Sector value chain analysis
  • Sector and financial database creation.
STAGE 02

Investment analysis

  • Idea screening & preliminary analysis (incl. ESG)
  • Detailed initiation reports
  • Financial models with forecasts & valuation
  • Company primers & broker summaries
  • Strategy creation & back-testing
  • Channel checks & due diligence
STAGE 03

Portfolio monitoring

  • Earnings reviews, previews & updates
  • Corporate actions tracking
  • Price-trigger alerts & coverage monitoring
  • Performance dashboarding
  • Event-driven impact analysis
  • Ad-hoc unstructured request handling
STAGE 04

Client servicing & IR

  • AI-generated client report production
  • RFP response automation
  • Fund marketing collateral & analysis
  • Risk exposure & attribution reporting
  • Investor reporting (regulatory + bespoke)
  • ETF, REIT and UCITS fund-level research.
Macro to client report.
End-to-end research support in one practice.
SGA covers every stage of the investment research lifecycle across equities, fixed income, credit and alternatives. We do this with a combination of AI tooling from the AI Invest Studio and expert delivery from our 3-layer execution team.
STAGE 01

Macro & sector research

  • Macroeconomic and sector analysis
  • Newsletters with controversy tracking & watchlists
  • Strategy reports & thematic research
  • Sector value chain analysis
  • Sector and financial database creation.
STAGE 02

Investment analysis

  • Idea screening & preliminary analysis (incl. ESG)
  • Detailed initiation reports
  • Financial models with forecasts & valuation
  • Company primers & broker summaries
  • Strategy creation & back-testing
  • Channel checks & due diligence
STAGE 03

Portfolio monitoring

  • Earnings reviews, previews & updates
  • Corporate actions tracking
  • Price-trigger alerts & coverage monitoring
  • Performance dashboarding
  • Event-driven impact analysis
  • Ad-hoc unstructured request handling
STAGE 04

Client servicing & IR

  • AI-generated client report production
  • RFP response automation
  • Fund marketing collateral & analysis
  • Risk exposure & attribution reporting
  • Investor reporting (regulatory + bespoke)
  • ETF, REIT and UCITS fund-level research.
We don’t just produce research.
We augment how investment decisions get made.
The AI Invest Studio is the proprietary SGA AI platform for investment management. Four modules. Eleven-plus specialized tools. Each module runs independently or as one unified workflow. Every output is actionable, with every piece verified by our expert-in-the-loop delivery team before it reaches a portfolio manager, analyst or client.
4

AI Product Lines

11+

Specialized Tools

3

Core Client Verticals

AI Invest Studio Modules
Module 1
InvestFlow AI

Opportunity Discovery | Top of funnel

Identify and qualify opportunities, faster.
InvestFlow AI helps investment teams identify and qualify investment opportunities faster with AI-powered screening, news intelligence and signal discovery across markets, sectors and asset classes.
1. Fin Assist AI
AI-powered financial assistant offering conversational intelligence for investment queries, portfolio guidance and real-time financial decision support.
2. Financial Insights & Analysis
Comprehensive financial insights and analysis platform featuring deep-dive analytics, data visualization and AI-driven reporting across markets and portfolios.
Built on AWS Bedrock, Claude, Langchain and In-House Agents. Nothing Leaves SGA’s Perimeter
Module 2
InvestEdge AI

Research Analysis | Depth at speed

Accelerate deep research and modeling.
InvestEdge AI accelerates deep research with automated financial modeling and valuation, document intelligence, transcript analysis and AI-driven insight generation. Five tools spanning data extraction to client reporting — the workhorse of the InvestStudio.
1. Table Parser
AI-powered extraction and structuring of financial tables from documents and PDFs to convert unstructured data into analysis-ready formats.
2. Financial Modeler
Automated financial modeling with AI-assisted assumptions. Build comprehensive models from 10-K and earnings data with analyst-controlled inputs and scenario analysis.
3. ASTRA
Advanced Strategic Research Assistant offering deep investment research to deliver structured insights across companies, sectors and markets.
4. Earnings Transcript Analyzer
AI-driven analysis of earnings call transcripts to surface key themes, sentiment, management guidance and investment signals alongside post-call strategy recommendations.
5. Client Report Generator
AI-powered wealth client report generation to produce professional client reports with intelligent content, executive summaries and data visualization.
Built on AWS Bedrock, Claude, Langchain and In-House Agents. Nothing Leaves SGA’s Perimeter
Module 3
InvestPulse AI

Portfolio Intelligence | Real-time

Stay ahead of market movements.
InvestPulse AI keeps portfolio managers and analysts ahead of market movements with real-time portfolio tracking, event-driven alerts and continuous news intelligence. We surface what truly matters from the noise.
1. Portfolio Alert Monitor
Real-time portfolio monitoring with intelligent alerts to track price moves, target price events, earnings releases and material market events across your covered universe.
2. News Intelligence
AI-powered news aggregation, parsing, qualification and ranking to surface investment-relevant signals from global news feeds tailored specifically to your portfolio and watchlists.
Built on AWS Bedrock, Claude, Langchain and In-House Agents. Nothing Leaves SGA’s Perimeter
Module 4
lnvestOps AI

Ops Intelligence | Workflow automation

Automate the investment operations layer.
InvestOps AI automates investment operations from RFP processing to workflow management to signal generation. This closes the loop between research, portfolio decisions and client-facing deliverables.
1. RFP Intelligence
Automated RFP processing and response generation that intelligently parses RFP documents and creates tailored investment responses at speed for asset management and IR teams.
2. Workflow Manager
Streamline and automate the investment process from the initial screen to the final decision with an interactive modern UI featuring handoffs, approvals and audit trails.
3. Invest Signal
AI-powered investment signal generation and portfolio intelligence offering real-time signals, alerts and insights to drive smarter investment decisions across your strategies.
Built on AWS Bedrock, Claude, Langchain and In-House Agents. Nothing Leaves SGA’s Perimeter
The AI + Expert-in-the-Loop
investment research model.
The future of investment research isn’t AI alone. It is AI and human expertise working seamlessly together. At SGA, AI augments the team; it does not replace it. Sector specialists, asset class experts and senior analysts continue to take complete charge where context, judgment and accountability matter most.
01

AI automates the data-intensive layer.

Data ingestion, document parsing, table extraction, model builds, earnings transcripts, news qualification and signal detection are compressed from days to hours on our in-house AI stack.

02

Humans validate, contextualize, judge.

Our 3-layer team of VP, Engagement Supervisor and Analyst reviews every AI output. They apply sector and asset-class context and quality-check against your firm’s research conventions.

03

Continuous feedback improves AI & outcomes.

A grounding mechanism plus a separate checker agent runs on every agentic use case for fact-checking and deduplicating. This tightens the loop every 30 days with about 10 iterations.

~30%

Reduction in investment operating costs (front + middle + back office)

40–60%

Reduction in TAT on research, reports & client deliverables

7–14 days

From ideation to a working AI proof-of-concept

4–8 wks

Deployed AI solution supported by experts-in-loop

The AI + Expert-in-the-Loop
investment research model.
The future of investment research isn’t AI alone. It is AI and human expertise working seamlessly together. At SGA, AI augments the team; it does not replace it. Sector specialists, asset class experts and senior analysts continue to take complete charge where context, judgment and accountability matter most.
01

AI automates the data-intensive layer.

Data ingestion, document parsing, table extraction, model builds, earnings transcripts, news qualification and signal detection are compressed from days to hours on our in-house AI stack.

02

Humans validate, contextualize, judge.

Our 3-layer team of VP, Engagement Supervisor and Analyst reviews every AI output. They apply sector and asset-class context and quality-check against your firm’s research conventions.

03

Continuous feedback improves AI & outcomes.

A grounding mechanism plus a separate checker agent runs on every agentic use case for fact-checking and deduplicating. This tightens the loop every 30 days with about 10 iterations.

~30%

Reduction in investment operating costs (front + middle + back office)

40–60%

Reduction in TAT on research, reports & client deliverables

7–14 days

From ideation to a working AI proof-of-concept

4–8 wks

Deployed AI solution supported by experts-in-loop

Every engagement
comes with the full research stack
Every research engagement brings the operating spine around the analyst. We provide AI tooling, sector judgment, quant depth, design support and editorial precision in one coordinated delivery model.
AI Invest Studio

Proprietary AI stack

Four modules and 11+ tools spanning opportunity discovery, research, portfolio intelligence and ops accessible via the embedded delivery team.

Sector & asset class experts

Subject-matter depth

Experts across all 11 GICS sectors and asset classes including equities, fixed income, credit, commodities and alternatives embedded alongside analysts.

Specialist quant team

Modeling & econometrics

Financial modeling experts, factor research, statistical and econometric capability for complex quantitative workstreams.

Graphics & design

Dedicated DTP & design

Desktop publishing experts, document design and software specialists who match your firm’s house style for research notes, client reports and fund factsheets.

Language experts

16 global languages

In-house senior editors align every deliverable to your firm’s tone of voice across sixteen languages including Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, German and French.

3-Layer execution team
Vice President

15+ years’ experience

Strategic oversight, account relationship, escalation and quality gate on every research deliverable.

Engagement Supervisor

5–7 years’ experience

Day-to-day delivery, utilization & reporting, think-tank exercises and sector-level quality control.

Associate

2–4 years’ experience

Hands-on execution on models, research notes, earnings analysis and client reports. AI-augmented and human-owned.

Every engagement
comes with the full research stack
Every research engagement brings the operating spine around the analyst. We provide AI tooling, sector judgment, quant depth, design support and editorial precision in one coordinated delivery model.
AI Invest Studio

Proprietary AI stack

Four modules and 11+ tools spanning opportunity discovery, research, portfolio intelligence and ops accessible via the embedded delivery team.

Sector & asset class experts

Subject-matter depth

Experts across all 11 GICS sectors and asset classes including equities, fixed income, credit, commodities and alternatives embedded alongside analysts.

Specialist quant team

Modeling & econometrics

Financial modeling experts, factor research, statistical and econometric capability for complex quantitative workstreams.

Graphics & design

Dedicated DTP & design

Desktop publishing experts, document design and software specialists who match your firm’s house style for research notes, client reports and fund factsheets.

Language experts

16 global languages

In-house senior editors align every deliverable to your firm’s tone of voice across sixteen languages including Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, German and French.

3-Layer execution team
Vice President

15+ years’ experience

Strategic oversight, account relationship, escalation and quality gate on every research deliverable.

Engagement Supervisor

5–7 years’ experience

Day-to-day delivery, utilization & reporting, think-tank exercises and sector-level quality control.

Associate

2–4 years’ experience

Hands-on execution on models, research notes, earnings analysis and client reports. AI-augmented and human-owned.

Three engagement models.
Mirror your research cadence.
Pick the engagement that matches your research workflow predictability. Switch later as coverage scales with no lock-in.

Particulars

Retainer

Part-time

Project-based

Best for

Regular, predictable research workflow. Ongoing 1:1 support; 12-month coverage volume predictability.

Unpredictable research cadence. Nature and timing not predictable; ad-hoc requests.

One-off & urgent. Irregular, unpredictable, single research mandates.

Key benefit

Direct access to 3-layer research team. Knowledge retention. Most cost-efficient for ongoing coverage.

Direct access to 3-layer research team. Flexibility to mirror coverage demand. Limited cost commitment.

Project-appropriate staffing. Effort-based billing.

Surge capacity

Yes, at ad-hoc rates

Yes, at ad-hoc rates

Yes, at ad-hoc rates

Billing

Monthly, in advance

Monthly, in advance

50% advance + 50% on completion*

Trial period

2 months

2 months

None

Termination notice

60 days

60 days

Not required

*Subject to a certain volume and deal size based on mutual discussion

Three engagement models.
Mirror your research cadence.
Pick the engagement that matches your research workflow predictability. Switch later as coverage scales with no lock-in.

Particulars

Retainer

Part-time

Project-based

Best for

Regular, predictable research workflow. Ongoing 1:1 support; 12-month coverage volume predictability.

Unpredictable research cadence. Nature and timing not predictable; ad-hoc requests.

One-off & urgent. Irregular, unpredictable, single research mandates.

Key benefit

Direct access to 3-layer research team. Knowledge retention. Most cost-efficient for ongoing coverage.

Direct access to 3-layer research team. Flexibility to mirror coverage demand. Limited cost commitment.

Project-appropriate staffing. Effort-based billing.

Surge capacity

Yes, at ad-hoc rates

Yes, at ad-hoc rates

Yes, at ad-hoc rates

Billing

Monthly, in advance

Monthly, in advance

50% advance + 50% on completion*

Trial period

2 months

2 months

None

Termination notice

60 days

60 days

Not required

*Subject to a certain volume and deal size based on mutual discussion

Four reasons investment teams
choose SGA and stay.

01
5,000+ entities of research depth

20 years partnering with global asset managers, hedge funds, wealth firms and brokerages. Coverage across all 11 GICS sectors in developed, emerging and frontier markets across equities and fixed income. Sector specialists are embedded alongside analysts.

One-stop research partner
02

Macro, sector, company, credit, ESG, RFP, IR and client reporting are handled in one practice. Wall Street-compliant IT and data security. A ready architecture across HR, design and editorial scales with your coverage universe.

03
Cultural & time-zone alignment

We provide a full replica of your working culture at our sites. Time-zone overlap is aligned to your market hours and earnings windows. We ensure full utilization visibility on every analyst hour spent.

The AI Invest Studio
04

A proprietary AI stack of 4 modules and 11+ tools built specifically for investment research rather than a horizontal LLM wrapper. ASTRA, Earnings Transcript Analyzer, Financial Modeler and RFP Intelligence are tested on real research mandates and hardened against institutional scrutiny.

Four reasons investment teams
choose SGA and stay.

01
5,000+ entities of research depth

20 years partnering with global asset managers, hedge funds, wealth firms and brokerages. Coverage across all 11 GICS sectors in developed, emerging and frontier markets across equities and fixed income. Sector specialists are embedded alongside analysts.

One-stop research partner
02

Macro, sector, company, credit, ESG, RFP, IR and client reporting are handled in one practice. Wall Street-compliant IT and data security. A ready architecture across HR, design and editorial scales with your coverage universe.

03
Cultural & time-zone alignment

We provide a full replica of your working culture at our sites. Time-zone overlap is aligned to your market hours and earnings windows. We ensure full utilization visibility on every analyst hour spent.

The AI Invest Studio
04

A proprietary AI stack of 4 modules and 11+ tools built specifically for investment research rather than a horizontal LLM wrapper. ASTRA, Earnings Transcript Analyzer, Financial Modeler and RFP Intelligence are tested on real research mandates and hardened against institutional scrutiny.