At the end of 2020, the firm launched the seller-side research business. With the strong pool of platform resources, the research institute has quickly gathered professional, young and capable research forces in the market. The research covers the following six sectors: total and asset allocation, consumption upgrading, medicare and health, intelligent manufacturing, cutting-edge technology, energy & new materials, and aims to provide institutional investors with decision-making suggestions beyond market depth.
Up to now, the team leaders of total and asset allocation, consumption upgrading, intelligent manufacturing, energy & new materials have been appointed, covering 15 industries, including strategy, light industry, food and beverage, machinery, chemical industry, electronics, trade business, media, household appliance, electric power equipment and new energy, transportation, petrochemical, Internet, military industry, listed SMEs, etc. Currently there're more than 50 researchers. Teams for key industries such as medicine, macro, metalworking, computer and fixed income will be in place gradually to ensure the coverage of the whole industry.
On one hand, in consideration of market demand and corporate strategy, the Research Institute focuses on the new economic fields represented by the five major industries of health, consumption, science and technology, Internet and intelligent manufacturing in terms of research direction and staffing, and creates new economic investment and research services beyond the market depth. At the same time, the firm will continuously improve the talent training mechanism, consolidate the research, improve the research product matrix, and develop a research framework system with Topsperity characteristics.
On the other hand, the Research Institute, as the internal engine of the company, strives to build a think tank center for the company and the Group. We will actively give full play to the pricing advantages in professional fields, address the needs of various business departments, and help the coordinated development of various business chains. We will support the development of investment banking, asset management and wealth business to form a dual-flywheel synergy.
In the future, the Research Institute will continue to cooperate with the institutional department to integrate diversified services and build an institutional customer ecosystem. We will cooperate with investment banking business and diversified institutional services to create a service ecosystem centered on corporate customers and financial institutions, support a comprehensive institutional business service platform for enterprises and institutional customers, and open up an innovative profit model based on the ecological circle.