New Delhi, Delhi, CNI Research Limited, the leading BSE listed research organization that specializes in Small & Mid-caps, today announced entering into new business segments

• On the anvil are services like rural research & marketing, brokering, etc.
• Looking at alliances with investment bankers and advisory service providers
• Renewed focus on global tie-ups to ensure proper exposure for Indian SMEs
• Interest of Retail investors to remain the core focus.

CNI Research Ltd., the leading BSE listed research organization that specializes in Small & Mid-caps, has today informed the BSE that it is broad-basing its activities by eking out alliances with investment bankers and advisory service providers. This will ensure that the SMEs, the core focus of the company, will get level playing field in any investment decision and the retail investors will get authentic information of the same.

"CNI has been focusing on the highly fragmented SME space in the last 8 years and would like to reiterate its commitment to the space. Our focus has been on creating high quality research on the Small & Mid caps and sharing the same with retail investors so that they can make an informed investment decision", says Mr. Kishor P Ostwal, CMD, CNI Research Ltd.

CNI research believes that there is a huge scope for service offerings dedicated to the Small & Mid Cap segment. In order to broad-base its offering and put the focus firmly on the segment, CNI Research has informed that on anvil are high growth services like Investment Banking, Corporate Branding, Rural Research and Marketing, Brokering and Value Added Financial services.

CNI Research believes that the SME market is wide open and bound to become even larger than the frontline market after the beginning of SME Exchange platform. Because of the lack of clarity and transparency in the segment and not enough authentic information available on the sector, informed investment decision becomes difficult for any type of investors.

CNI Research believes that qualitative research will help all whether the investors are HNI, FII or retail investors. Research has now become the backbone of capital markets in the country, with a market capitalization of over 1.5 Trillion USD.

CNI Research focuses on creating a level playing field and has taken up cudgels on behalf of the small / retail investors. CNI Research studies have been able to create awareness about the issues involved in various market operations and have been able to get the policy makers to take cognizance of the problems and effect changes.

Some such reports on buyback failures, derivative circuit filters and suspended companies etc. have found favour with higher authorities and prompt action was taken by various agencies. This has resulted in regulatory changes in favour of protecting small and retail investors.

CNI Research Limited has a retail clientele base of over 40000 registered subscribers. Apart from these retail subscribers, CNI Research reports are read and accepted by the world best FII whether they have a presence in India or not. CNI Research has the widest acceptance globally and the following tie-ups prove it:

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world leading Business Intelligence online service provider with integrated, single source of analysis and insight. Thomson Reuters help customers by providing indispensable information-based products and service. CNI provides content and research reports on Indian markets, Indian economy, Small & Mid Caps and related subjects.

Dow Jones Factiva Ltd.

Dow Jones Factiva a division of Down Jones provides essential business news and information together with content delivery tools that power the intelligent enterprise. Dow Jones Factiva content uses more than 25,000 authority sources from more than 159 countries in 22 languages. CNI has a content sharing agreement to provide content on the Indian small and mid cap segment. In addition, research and sectoral reports on Indian corporates, economy and stock markets will also be provided by CNI for the global client base of Dow Jones Factiva

The Market.Com

TheMarkets.com uniquely addresses the research needs of Institutional investors at over 2400 Firms in 51 Countries. TheMarket.com serves asset managers, pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds and funds of funds, as well as investor relations and private equity professionals. CNI Research provides content for the mid cap and small cap segment as well as research reports to the global client base of themarkets.com.

Capital IQ:

Capital IQ is a Standard & Poor business, delivers comprehensive fundamental and quantitative research and analysis solutions to over 4,200 Investment Management firms, Investment Banks, Private Equity Funds, Advisory Firms, Corporations and Universities Worldwide. CNI agreement with Capital IQ has helped expand the reach of the Indian small and mid cap segment. In addition, research and company reports on Indian corporates, equity models, earnings estimates and industry reports will also be provided by CNI for the global client base of Capital IQ.

WalletWatch.com

Sify, a Nasdaq listed co, is one of India leading integrated Information Communications Technology companies. The Company launched corporate connectivity services over India first TCP/IP backbone telecom network infrastructure. Sify is a CNI channel partner.

Suvidhaa

Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt. Ltd. a Shapoorjee Palonji group company floated to aggregate, commoditize and distribute the services in most convenient form to the consumers. Suvidhaa is a CNI Research channel partner.

Wakabayashi Fund LLC

Wakabayashi Fund LLC is a private equity firm having offices in Tokyo, Japan and New York provides Corporate Capitalization and Institutional Investors relations consulting services.