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For Sell-side Professionals
Looking for a way to cut through the flood of information and noise bombarding the portfolio managers you cover and easily demonstrate the performance of your trade ideas and research? Want your clients to have a solid understanding of the value you’re adding to their investment process?
First Coverage can help you get recognized and rewarded.
Spotlight Your Success Manage Your Time Expand Your Client Base
Monitor Your Performance
The Community by First Coverage is the ultimate efficiency tool for investment professionals, combining the features and functionality of an alpha capture system, a media sentiment engine and a meeting management tool. The First Coverage platform is simple, convenient and confidential. The information you submit to the portfolio managers whom you cover via The Community is viewed only by you and your client and stored where you both have constant access to it.
Turn the spotlight on your successes
- Demonstrate where you have added and can continue to generate alpha, even if the portfolio managers you cover missed a call or deleted an e-mail, with objective reports you can produce from the platform and share with your clients.
- Update details of any information you've posted, and the platform will immediately notify all of the portfolio managers you're covering who may be interested. Managing your information has never been so simple.
- Easily monitor your ideas with marked-to-market tracking, and real-time alerts that notify you when things are happening to the stocks that matter most to you. You'll know exactly when to make the value-added phone calls and e-mails to the portfolio managers you cover.
Manage your time more efficiently
- Enter "stop" or "target" prices for specific ideas and the idea automatically closes when either is reached — even if you're out of the office – saving you time and worry. Stop and target prices can be changed or removed at any time.
- Manage your relationships with portfolio managers better. Track all information sent to each portfolio manager, and easily see a complete list of all the ideas you've sent and their average return.
- Connect with potential new buy-side clients in The Community. These pay-for-performance firms are seeking new coverage based on idea type, price target, ticker, deciles ranking, returns, sector, industry expertise, etc. If you meet their criteria, they may invite you to cover them.
- You have complete control over which firms you share your information with and can reveal your identity only when you decide to accept the buy-side’s invitation to provide coverage. Your intellectual property is completely protected.
- The Community allows you to compare your performance, in terms of absolute returns, relative to your peers on the platform – those within your firm and from competitive organizations – on a month-to-date, quarter-to-date or year-to-date basis.
When you have a truly exceptional year, you could be recognized as a top performer with First Coverage’s “Top Performer Awards.”
These rankings are derived from hundreds of thousands of actionable sell-side trade ideas communicated by thousands of sales people at hundreds of firms that participated on the First Coverage alpha capture system and represent the only completely objective evaluation of the sell-side. As such, they are highly regarded by the buy-side as an indicator of who to seek advice from when making investment decisions.
Use First Coverage and let portfolio managers see for the first time just how much value you can add to their investment process.
It's time to put yourself and your firm in the spotlight.
