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Recent Equity Research Insights
Brand Matters: Consumer Health and Wellness
We believe the consumer health and wellness market is attractive for industry participants and investors, whether those be venture capital seeding promising early-stage start-ups looking for proof of concept, private equity funding growth of midstage businesses looking to scale, and public market capital allocators looking to create value for shareholders.
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Payment Fraud: The Problem of Minimizing Fraud Costs and Boosting Sales
We believe the fraud management space will garner increasing corporate and investor focus in coming years and see the potential for multiple emerging players as longer-term winners in the space.
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HR Software Market to Benefit From the Evolving Work Environment
In our report we highlight seven themes in HR software and provide our conclusions as to the implications to our public HR software coverage.
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Snack to the Future
Snacking is becoming a more central feature of consumer eating habits and innovation is resulting in more healthful and functional options appealing to a wider range of consumers.
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Spotlight on the Next Major IT Labor Pool: Latin America
The rise of Latin American-centric outsourcing firms demonstrates the potential of this market and growing consensus around Latin America’s ability to help ease strains on the technology labor market.
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Defining the Distribution Tech Landscape
When looking at the rapidly emerging distribution tech sector, P&C insurance analyst Adam Klauber notes that, “Shifts in the distribution value chain are the main theme to understand and to watch over time.”
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Cybersecurity 2020: Trust No One, Verify Everyone
The term zero trust has become the next in a long line of popular terms used by cybersecurity companies to associate their offerings with a more sophisticated, next-generation approach.
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AgTech Revolution: Patent Data, Financings, and Digitization Suggest Acceleration of Innovation for Next Decade
A rapid increase of capital flowing into AgTech, or precision ag, is leading to new technological introductions and potentially disruptive newcomers vying to capture more value from the ag supply chain.
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State of the Consumer Recovery
COVID-19 has had profound influences on the U.S. economy, institutions, and lives and livelihoods of consumers. William Blair's consumer equity research team anticipates the recovery in consumer spending to continue, albeit probably at a less steep pace in coming months and with likely volatility as coronavirus cases begin to rise again.
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