Newsletter: Issue 21 – Q4, 2017           Thought Leadership     Whitepaper: Private Equity buyouts strategic partnerships to optimize on risk/effort trade-offs   Blog: Exploiting better access to China’s lucrative local bonds through ground support   Blog: The credit offtake conundrum – tepid demand or credit tightening?     Private equity investment professionals juggle their time in a variety of activities as they strive to achieve a fine balance between making right investment decisions and maximizing the value of existing investments for optimal exit valuation.   China’s yuan-denominated local bond market (of about USD9 billion) has been largely out of bounds for foreign investors due to government restrictions.   After the global financial crisis, the US Federal Reserve maintained low interest rates to drive an economic rebound, support asset prices, and to allow banks to strengthen their balance sheets and reduce non-performing loans.               Focus Video: Our business in 80 seconds               Learn more about current industry climate and how Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services is partnering with firms to enable front office efficiency.                   Showcase     Equity Research Solutions   Structured Finance Services       We help asset managers to differentiate and outperform. Our analysts are engaged as extensions of our client teams and support them in various types of research assignments. Each research output is made available to that client alone, reflecting the client’s proprietary and differentiated research process.   We offer services such as structuring support (including loan tape cracking and deal modeling), creation and maintenance of bespoke cash flow models, performance monitoring and reporting, and valuation and research support.             Impact Story     Forensic Analysis & Corporate Governance Reviews   Structured Finance Analytics       How we helped a US-headquartered asset manager integrate forensics analysis as part of its investment research process to help identify investment opportunities in the Chinese market.   How we support a global investment bank’s US-based asset finance division in structuring deals in asset classes such as RMBS (NPL, RPL and Sub-prime) and ABS (Auto, Equipment, Student Loans and transportation).                 Events   Business Excellence and Automation Tools (BEAT)   Webinar: Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines - The Way Forward   Product Showcase: Financial Data Extractor       This webinar on the pharmaceutical sector focuses on therapeutic cancer vaccines. Learn more on the developmental strategies of these therapies and the challenges pharmaceutical companies face in translating this promising approach into clinically feasible therapies.   Investment banking analysts spend significant time on data collation from various sources, resulting in longer turnaround times and difficulty in expanding their coverage universe. We offer the Financial Data Extractor to help investment banks overcome such operational challenges.                               About Moody's Analytics Knowledge Services Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services, a division of Moody’s Analytics, is a leading provider of high-value research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector. The company supports over 200 financial institutions and consulting companies through a team of over 2,600 subject matter experts who work as an extension of the clients’ teams based out of various global delivery centres. We EMPOWER our clients to drive revenues higher. We INNOVATE using our proprietary technology and automation solutions. We enable our clients to TRANSFORM their operating model and cost base.                 US: +1 212 553 9477  |  UK: +44 20 7772 1000  |  contact@acuitkp.com               ©2017 Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services. All rights reserved.