Markets Recon (www.marketsrecon.com) is an independent research platform for Asset Allocators and Professional Consultants. The purpose of Markets Recon is to provide thought leadership, and other information, in order to complement asset allocation and manager selection, whilst complying with financial regulations.
Our purpose
Markets Recon was born out of the pain points of industry users and service providers in order to provide a platform which provided exactly what was being asked for. Your suggestions and frustrations with other content aggregation platforms have greatly shaped our very own drive and ambitions.
We seek to better facilitate in providing a range of information, where balanced content covering from the well-known to the very little, can aid in the asset allocation and manage selection process. In order to do this effectively, we require access to thousands of data sources, and to simply aggregate them into one platform.
But how do I find the best content, quickly? That question has always served as a valid, and yet difficult one, to answer. Markets Recon utilises at its very core artificial intelligence (AI) technology, which took its first real breath in 2023 - And significantly speeds up finding the right content for you.
We want you to find what you’re looking for… It’s that simple.
Our journey
The team starts off with two original founders - Alex Nicholls and Kyle Harris. Both Alex and Kyle worked at a competitor of Markets Recon, and have since used their experience to reflect on what was missing from a users toolkit which wasn’t translating in the modern day to a successful user experience.
Markets Recon launched the website on 15th January 2024, after having undergone significant R&D. This led us to provide an early version of our vision and will continue to expand, provide new opportunities, and accelerate access to the latest technology for content aggregation and analysis. By following our journey, you will watch as we bring on new talent, provide access to real-time information, and give our users a platform which is shaped exactly the way they want it to be.
Our platform is designed for users. Our platform will be shaped by our users. And our platform will be driven by our users.
A 100% user-led organic platform, how about that?!
Our vision
We’ll simply want our users to get what they ask for. If they want the latest quarterly outlook, they’ll get it. If they want to compare documents against each other and extract the differences to advance their own research, we’ll provide that through our proprietary AI. If they want to reduce several hours spent on reviewing data for their manager selection process by having our platform do the work for them, we will make that happen!
Our vision is simple… We want users to drive the site, to organically build the traction of interesting and useful content, to engage with useful and meaningful content which will actually aid them in their day-to-day tasks, and we want to be the best at doing it.
Who benefits?
Our website serves a variety of professional interests, whether you’re an institutional investor, investment manager, or service provider. Markets Recon is created to be used by the professional investors to maximise their investment insights, ascertain the right management selection process, and to reduce the amount of time it takes to consume information in order to get the right answer.
By providing asset managers, investment & professional consultants, and academic and professional bodies with a searchable database, we’re able to provide the right balance of information to answer your questions.
Type of content?
Thought leadership, research reports, and white papers, are the quintessential details required to make informed decisions; however, this must be supported by the latest market movements, and information like that doesn’t always present itself in text-heavy documents.
This platform takes all kinds of formats in order to provide the flexibility required to consume information. We present articles, infographics, research papers, podcasts, videos, webinars, and much more.
Every piece of information is collated in real-time, so you don’t have to go anywhere else to find what you’re looking for.
Our Leadership
Alex Nicholls, CEO, comes with plenty of experience. Having first started his career focusing on user-data acquisition and client reporting, Alex’s role quickly evolved into a more customer focused role, becoming Head of Partner Operations at a rival firm. This position allowed Alex to grow a team dedicated to customer success and data analytics - events which led to Alex accelerating business growth and product deployment.
Alex now leads a new team at the heart of Markets Recon, dedicated to a similar role of customer success and user-data acquisition.
Kyle Harris, CSO, specialised in the alternative asset management industry for the past 7 years. During this time, Kyle obtained a Masters in International Investment & Finance as well as institutional investor content procurement and financial due diligence expertise.
Joined at the same firm as Alex, Kyle worked as a Strategy and Project Manager, overseeing deep technological advancements within the content curation space, thereby enhancing customers’ thought leadership strategies.
Having worked at large asset manager companies such as Gresham House and CORESTATE Capital Group, the natural progression and lessons Kyle brings to the table will be a welcomed addition to Markets Recon.
Partnerships
As Markets Recon is a free-to-use platform, we work hard on being able to provide the latest market intelligence at your fingertips. In order to do so superiorly, we may sell our services to asset management companies who wish to take a more attractive role in providing content to the platform.
In order to do so, Markets Recon may promote specific content (providing it is in line with our publishing guidelines) and feature this in prominent positions on your account. This will be material which the asset manager believes is of beneficial value to a user who has specified an interest in such material.
For us to know what you want to read, or what you might be interested in, we have created a platform which provides a level of personalisation. When you sign up, we ask what categories or topics are of interest to you. This information will allow us to provide tailored recommendations and help control the display or relevant and non-relevant material on your homepage.
We may, on any number of occasions, send newsletters or other alerts to inform you of new content available on the platform. Content may also be from asset managers who we have a partnership with.
If you wish to contact us, you can do so via the Contact Us section of our website, or you can email us at [email protected]. Be sure to include a clear subject line and as much detail in the main body of the message as possible, so we can get it in front of the right people and assist you as quickly as possible.
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