Analysis and Performance-Based Research

Midwood research in action

Not all trading is based upon immediate developments. Many transactions are executed after extensive research and analysis.

Midwood provides authoritative, independent, third-party research and an extensive array of analytical tools. These independent research providers have specializations including

  • fundamental, quantitative and technical analysis
  • arbitrage research tools
  • interest rate analysis
  • fund and portfolio performance
  • execution-cost analysis
  • top-down/bottom-up strategies
  • trading platforms 
  • established marketplaces and emerging markets
  • legislative/regulatory prospects and political analysis

Analyses and tools are matched, through consultation, to a client’s investment style and investment needs ensuring our independent research is maximized for your needs.  

Quality, Reliability, Timeliness Are the Measures of Research

Midwood doesn’t believe one size fits all. Even when clients have similar objectives. But we do believe only the highest-quality research should be made available to clients. 

We extensively evaluate any research product before recommending it to a client. Because client need is our principal focus, we continually review research providers. Midwood then draws together and recommends only the best authorities.  

 

Integral to Midwood’s third-party research capability is extensive knowledge of Section 28 (e) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as well as comprehensive and customized tracking and reporting of client activity.

Working closely with you, we can use our wide-ranging, independent research capabilities to meet your specific objectives and to help you and your clients succeed.  


Dudack Research Group

Dudack Research Group, a Division of Midwood Securities, Inc., is an investment research firm that provides economic, fundamental, quantitative and technical strategy and tools for institutional money managers. 

Visit their website at DudackResearchGroup.com for more information.


Independent Research: Authoritative, Reliable, Timely

Midwood Securities offers authoritative, independent, third-party research from a wide array of authorities carefully scrutinized for quality, accuracy and timeliness before being added to our group. Each is selected for expertise in

 
  • fundamental, quantitative and technical analysis
  • arbitrage research tools
  • interest rate analysis
  • fund and portfolio performance
  • execution-cost analysis
  • top-down/bottom-up strategies
  • trading platforms 
  • established marketplaces and emerging markets
  • legislative/regulatory prospects and political analysis

Following is a partial list of current providers:

AER ADVISORS RESEARCH
AER utilizes a proprietary measure of money flow (their FLOW score) as the primary component to identify sectors and stocks that are driving the market trend. More importantly, AER’s research is forward looking, measuring the second derivative of their FLOW score that can readily identify changes in momentum among stocks and sectors. By combining the quantitative aspects of money flow with traditional fundamental security analysis, AER then identifies and ranks stocks that have the potential to generate positive alpha. Strong earnings growth, low valuation and positive money flow are drivers of stock and sector performance. This methodology can also be applied to the short side of the market.

Users receive:

  • Daily Alpha Sector Ranking e-mails that provide FLOW ranks for all 36 sectors from strongest to weakest, identifying the 10 strongest stocks within each sector based on money flow. The daily e-mail also provides FLOW rankings for ETFs.
  • Weekly receipt of AER’s Market Monitor, which in addition to a discussion of timely market moving themes, includes market breadth statistics aggregated from their research. The weekly e-mail also includes the three sectors with the greatest improvement and the three sectors with the greatest deterioration in the 4-week moving average of money flow. Buy and sell recommendations are provided for each of these sectors.
  • Access to AER's website which includes their Alpha Portfolio Checker, an interface which allows the user to obtain AER's proprietary rankings on individual stocks entered by the user, as well as alternative names that may provide better alpha opportunities.
  • Access to AER's Alpha Focused Sector Portfolios, which identify the leading stocks in the major S&P sector ETF's. Buy recommendations of the top four stocks in each sector are made monthly. Historical probabilities of these recommendations' success at generating positive alpha are also provided.

This research service can be highly customized. AER's team can interact with clients to construct portfolios, create custom screens, and to provide Buy and Sell (or Short) recommendations suitable for any client's needs. This research service is a powerful tool designed to identify the stocks and sectors that are likely to generate excess returns over time by combining buy/sell pressure with earnings growth and valuation factors. -More information

APPLIED FINANCE GROUP
World leaders in developing corporate performance measurement and valuation frameworks. Innovations include

  • systematically linking economic profit to corporate value
  • developing intuitive value driver models to explain economic profit
  • empirically linking competitive advantage periods to company specific fundamental factors
  • developing market based discount rates that mitigate the problems with CAPM based costs of capital - More information

CAPITOL ANALYSTS NETWORK
Specialist in

  • political risk analysis

  • forecasting federal legislative/regulatory events which will affect specific industries and firms and the value of their financial securities - More information

ELKINS/MCSHERRY
World leader offering specialized reports that

  • help financial institutions assess the performance of their funds and portfolios

  • track the administrative and execution costs incurred during a fund’s daily activities - More information

FRANK SHOSTAK GLOBAL ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Dr. Shostak has over 25 years experience as a market economist, central bank analyst and economic modeler. Through his Austrian Economics prospective he offers a competitive advantage by introducing a "third dimension" over those who keep analyzing the economy in what is essentially a two-dimensional space.

  • Weekly Economic Overview, containing stock market projections, interest rate forecasts, commodities forecasts, central banks' action analysis, a flash of the Austrian theoretical view, etc.

  • Nominal and Real Austrian Money Supply (AMS) numbers with their historical data base.

  • Proprietary Liquidity measure with a historical data base.

  • Custom work by country, global region, sector, etc. - More information

FREE MARKET, INC.
Articulate, successful bond market strategist and provider of

 

 

GAVEKAL RESEARCH
Independent research firm, offers institutional investors advisory services on tactical asset allocation through the study of monetary policy, fiscal policies, secular trends, technical analysis and asset class valuations.  Provides

  • close contact and open dialogue with clients
  • quarterly, monthly, and daily publications - More information

GLOBAL EQUITY ANALYTICS RESEARCH SERVICE
Provider of a new proprietary database that

  • resolves the share comparability for corporate structure and accounting changes 

  • exploits the main drivers of the Dupont model as they correlate most closely to the specific stock performance - More information

INTRINSIC RESEARCH SYSTEMS, INC.
Developed as the next generation in the evolution of equity analytics, Intrinsic Research System's suite of products has been designed for clients seeking an intuitive and comprehensive approach to equity research and decision making.

Instrinsic's design provides the client with a visually revealing and easy to use platform for company, market, industry, sector, portfolio, and economic analysis

  • Portfolio Managers utilize Intrinsic to generate ideas, research companies, perform valuation modeling, monitor portfolios, examine portfolio characteristics, and make strategy decisions based on macro level sector and economic data.

  • Research analysts utilize Intrinsic to perform original research, examine valuation multiples, create custom industry groups, monitor industry groups, create custom Excel models and to embed publication quality graphics within their written research reports

The Internet-based delivery of the product is designed to facilitate easy sharing and collaboration amongst a client's users, and the rich graphics provide substantial capability to customize output for portfolio analysis and presentation. - More information

LAFFER ASSOCIATES
Through the application of decades of economic research, the firm, founded by Arthur Laffer, the creator of the “Laffer Curve,” provides

  • proprietary analysis, investment models and unique supply-side perspectives of worldwide macroeconomics

  • economic focus driven by legislative developments and their specific impact on asset valuations

  • evaluation of specific industry sectors, states, countries, companies and people influencing asset relatives - More information

OGDEN & CO., INC.
Developer of a proprietary stock specific information arbitrage research tool and provider of

  • corporate performance ratings
  • earnings surprise/sales surprise
  • estimate change factors 
  • pattern recognition technology - More information  

SPENCER ENGLAND'S EQUITY REVIEW
Open, unique, fundamental equity approach that

  • uses only reported economic data to determine S&P industries which will outperform and underperform the market

  • uses a technical turning point methodology focusing on identifying trend changes in economic fundamentals driving relative earnings and relative stock performance - More information 

ZYRK ANALYSIS
proprietary quantitative model that

  • utilizes statistical algorithms to analyze momentum-based indicators
  • identifies the optimum parameters in order to pinpoint bullish and bearish rotations - More information

THE MIDWOOD SECURITIES RESEARCH TEAM

For further information on how you can use these and our other independent research providers, please contact