1. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell Week 4: Industry Research Sept. 29, 2010

2. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell What’s the end goal here?  Learn how to find sources of information for use in industry research

3. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell IBISWorld  Industry reports on trends and growth projections  Has industry reports for all US industries  Many global found through search  Access through Johnson School Library homepage

4. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell IBISWorld Reports  Intro to report  Contains industry definition  Products and services offered by industry  Similar industries to get different angles on data  Industries that will effect demand and supply

5. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell IBISWorld Reports  Executive summary  Key statistics  Product/geographical segmentation  Market characteristics  Industry conditions  Key factors  Competitors  Performance and outlook

6. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell IBISWorld Strength  Great source of basic information on industry trends  Past numbers and future growth predictions very helpful  Graphs that can be used to showcase industry arguments  Insight into future problems within the industry

7. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell S&P NetAdvantage  Great breakdown of recent events  Both general industries and sub-industries  Applies events to future predictions  Focused on current and future trends that will be sweeping an industry

8. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell S&P NetAdvantage  Gives a breakdown by industry of past performance  Rates strength of each broad industry  Economic calendar shows all upcoming economic news  Can be a little ovewhelming and finding the important stuff can be difficult  Very broad macro take on the economy, also

9. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell EIU  Economist Intelligence Unit  Has reports on every country, month by month  Future outlook  Politcal scene  Economic policy and performance  Data and charts

10. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell Thompson One  Great place to find research reports on individual companies  Can read through these to find analysts takes on overall sector and industry  Also good to look at competitors  Can only be used in IE

11. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell Yahoo Finance  Not much information on industries  More useful to find companies within a specific one  Good source of news updates on particular one

12. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell Cornell Library Guide  http://guides.library.cornell.edu/content.php?pid =3602&sid=20372 http://guides.library.cornell.edu/content.php?pid =3602&sid=20372

13. Mutual Investment Club of Cornell See you next week  Thanks for coming!