The partnership will close the gap between new research and point of sale. The daily Substantive Research Briefings highlight to portfolio managers the latest macro research and will now link to the RSRCHX platform, enabling them to procure the reports in real time.

Substantive Research (Substantive) helps investors find the best top-down research quickly by curating and distributing daily briefings that summarise five of the highest quality macroeconomic, allocation and strategy research publications by theme, driving traffic to research providers themselves. Substantive ensures that the daily briefings present a selection of high quality, independent articles and research notes, ranked by an internal methodology and tailored to portfolio managers’ priorities and preferences. Substantive’s provider base spans over 40 banks and 50 independent research providers.

The partnership between Substantive and RSRCHXchange bridges the gap between identifying the required research and purchasing it. Connecting Substantive’s briefings and the RSRCHXchange marketplace means the 1000 portfolio managers who read Substantive’s daily email can now seamlessly purchase new reports and subscriptions via the RSRCHX platform. Every research report from a RSRCHX provider that is featured in Substantive’s daily briefing will include a RSRCHX link, enabling portfolio managers to immediately preview and purchase the report or a subscription in a MiFID II compliant way.

RSRCHX is a research aggregation, procurement and management platform, built in consultation with asset managements and research providers, that enables institutional asset managers to read and buy research in a more efficient, transparent and auditable way. The RSRCHX dashboard offers an automated way for asset managers to track firm-wide research consumption, to rate and evaluate the content they receive, to improve the procurement process and to ensure MiFID II compliance.

Mike Carrodus, CEO and Founder at Substantive Research said: “Our focus has always been to drive our asset and portfolio manager community to the highest quality research available from banks and independent providers. Our partnership with RSRCHXchange will now ensure that Substantive’s clients can immediately access, procure and pay for that research in a MiFID II compliant and unbundled way. Connecting the Substantive briefing and the RSRCHXchange marketplaces creates an even more powerful lead conversion tool for research providers. Asset managers will be able to capitalise on the insight gained from our independently curated briefings and put that into action via the RSRCHX platform.”

Brian Emanuelson, Director Sales at J Capital Research, a Substantive and RSRCHXchange provider, expressed his support for the partnership: “J Capital Research believes that the collaboration between Substantive Research and RSRCHXchange is a great idea. This partnership will help close the gap between the introduction of a research provider’s service and the point of sale. It brings the consumer of research directly to a simple click-to-buy marketplace of high quality research sources.”

Vicky Sanders, Co-Founder of RSRCHXchange, commented: “We are delighted to partner with Substantive Research and jointly continue to expand the universe of buy-side firms that can access and procure research in a MiFID II compliant way. While Substantive directs investors to the best macroeconomic research, RSRCHX complements this offering by aggregating these reports on our platform, enabling fund managers to access their research in one place and seamlessly purchase new reports and subscriptions. This partnership further increases our reach and we look forward to working with Substantive and their expanding customer base in the future.”