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Street Contxt Launches New Service for Buy Side Investors
[July 18, 2017]

Street Contxt Launches New Service for Buy Side Investors


Street Contxt, a fintech company that helps brokerages, independent research providers, and asset managers distribute, manage, unbundle, and value research, today announced the official launch of its buy side service. The new functionality allows investors, including hedge funds, pension funds, and institutional asset managers, to never miss information that they care about by centralizing and organizing the entire firm's content and knowledge, whether it comes from brokers, independent research providers, internal sources, corporate IR, filings, the web, or anywhere else. Street Contxt enables fund managers to access one portal to share the firm's subscriptions and internal knowledge, collaborate internally on investment ideas, monitor their positions, easily find new content, and objectively validate which brokers are delivering value and which are not.

"As data has become commoditized on Wall Street, investor demand has increased for content, context, and control," said Blair Livingston, CEO of Street Contxt. "The buy side is receiving more information than ever before and investors are struggling to eliminate the noise, find the insight that they need, and manage that content firm-wide over time. This is extremely evident as we enter into earnings season and investors' inboxes get flooded with instant analysis and commentary on the hundreds of companies reporting each day. The Street Contxt buy side service will help investors confidently find the information that is important to them, collaborate across the fund, and build a long-term, institutional knowledge base that helps capture alpha."

Street Contxt already plays a central role in the industry by providing tools for sell side and independent research providers to deliver the most relevant content to the right clients, at the right time. The addition of buy side functionality completes Street Contxt's offerings for Wall Street - bringing together brokerages, independent research providers, and funds in one ecosystem - allowing for unique benefits for all parties using the platform.

A centralized institutional knowledge base for the buy side

Street Contxt's new platform removes the silos created by individual email inboxes by building a firm-wide content and knowledge repository. All content, no matter how it is created or received, is accessible throughout the entire firm in one centralized location, eliminating the need to access various sources of content through multiple paywalls nd logins. The platform allows colleagues to save, annotate, and share interesting content; collaborate freely on investment ideas; build theses; and set individual preferences to receive only what is of interest, easily updating the list as it evolves.



Via the Street Contxt platform, investors have access to the full content spectrum across all asset classes, including formal research reports, desk commentary, sales notes, corporate access, and more. Additionally, investors can manage internally-generated research, web content, and any other source of information they want to distribute and manage across the team. They can customize how they receive information (via a real-time content feed, on-demand email or an end-of-day summary) and all content is available via desktop or mobile devices. Street Contxt's mobile optimization frees up users for on-the-go navigation, providing flexibility not previously available in the content experience.

Machine learning to capture all information and secure new insights


By utilizing machine learning, Street Contxt helps funds seamlessly monitor content, activity, and positions held internally. As a result, firms can analyze what is being read, and also what is not being read, and makes recommendations to each user based on their demonstrated interests. Through these recommendations, investors can discover brokers and independent research providers that they may not have existing relationships with and uncover new insights that would normally have gone unnoticed. In addition, Street Contxt highlights topics that are trending daily across the capital markets, including sectors and tickers that are receiving increased attention, to make sure readers are on top of the latest news.

Objectively measured content and performance-value

A crucial aspect of the buy side's relationship with content providers involves understanding how these relationships ultimately contribute to performance, which has historically been a subjective assessment. The Street Contxt platform enables investors to quantitatively measure the value of all the content they consume, using in-depth analysis that goes well beyond measuring email open rates. Among the many criteria, Street Contxt measures the actual readership of each piece of content - the length of time it was open, how often it was opened and shared across the firm, whether or not it was used in a thesis and how the resulting thesis performed. In addition, the service allows users to rate the content received from each broker or analyst in order to identify who produces the most actionable research. This allows firms to have a transparent relationship with their service providers based on actual outcomes, enabling them to manage subscriptions and allocate commissions objectively.

There are currently 253,000 individuals receiving through the Street Contxt platform across 34,000 funds globally. The company recently announced an investment by a strategic funding consortium led by existing investor Joe Lonsdale of 8VC that included an investment by Point72 Ventures, the early-stage venture capital strategy of Point72 Asset Management. The round also included substantial contributions from Palm Drive Capital, a New York-based VC firm that helps build strategic relationships in the Greater China Region; Portag3 Ventures LP, a member of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies; and other unnamed funds and industry luminaries from around the globe.

About Street Contxt

Street Contxt is a knowledge platform that enables sell side brokerages, independent research firms and institutional investors to efficiently distribute and manage all forms of content and analysis, including formal research, macro commentary, and content distributed from the sales and trading desk. Using proprietary, smart data technology and machine learning, the Street Contxt platform helps capital markets participants build relationships and never miss information that they care about by matching the right people with the right content and resources in order to eliminate overload, increase performance, improve engagement and collaboration, and increase cost-effectiveness. Designed with rigorous cybersecurity measures and a customizable user experience, Street Contxt integrates seamlessly with a firm's existing software and content management systems. Street Contxt brings transparency, accountability and scale to institutional content distribution and consumption, allowing firms to stay ahead of changing regulations. For additional information on Street Contxt, please visit www.streetcontxt.com.


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