Cascend Securities

Cascend Securities provides agile and differentiated investment research -- utilizing a combination of fundamental analysis, unique proprietary data sets and forecasts, computational techniques and human intuition -- to sophisticated institutional investors. We have an innovative, multi-disciplinary and highly analytical approach to investment selection which greatly benefits our clients. We focus on industries where our proprietary fundamental analytical models provide us with an ability to forecast sector fundamentals out several years. We then propagate these detailed fundamentals into our quarterly company income statement and balance sheet projections, providing unique insight into sector drivers. Cascend couples this fundamental basis with a robust daily forecast of future trading range targets and probabilities based on our proprietary statistical computational model of trading dynamics. We run these forecasts for equities, indexes, commodities and currencies in all major global trading regions: o Quarterly pro-forma company income statement, balance sheet and cash flow forecasts out five years for over 1,000 companies o Industry fundamental forecasts -- including proprietary data sets such as customer purchasing intent analyses, production, price, capacity utilization -- for almost 2,000 fundamental values out five years o Traditional fundamental equity research ratings, price targets, estimates and published research reports on 1,000 publicly traded companies in our research coverage universe o Near- and medium-term trading price forecasts and risk levels driven by our daily statistical analyses of 5,000 global equities o Coverage across a wide spectrum of the markets and industries with over 200 sectors o Near- and medium-term trading price forecasts and risk levels -- driven by our daily statistical process -- of 1,000 global commodities, currencies and indexes o A robust research portal with instantaneous on-demand client access to reports, forecasts and raw data This combination and contrast of sector and company fundamentals with medium-term trading dynamics gives our Team unique insight -- and truly differentiated opinion -- into which companies and sectors are likely to move, and why. We are happy to discuss any custom research projects you might have where we can leverage our extensive research technology platform. Contact Cascend today (at www.cascend.com or [email protected]) and join our clients receiving meaningful insights different than the average Sell-Side analyst opinions.