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Recent Equity Research Insights
Snack to the Future
Snacking is becoming a more central feature of consumer eating habits and innovation is resulting in more healthful and functional options appealing to a wider range of consumers.
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Spotlight on the Next Major IT Labor Pool: Latin America
The rise of Latin American-centric outsourcing firms demonstrates the potential of this market and growing consensus around Latin America’s ability to help ease strains on the technology labor market.
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Defining the Distribution Tech Landscape
When looking at the rapidly emerging distribution tech sector, P&C insurance analyst Adam Klauber notes that, “Shifts in the distribution value chain are the main theme to understand and to watch over time.”
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Cybersecurity 2020: Trust No One, Verify Everyone
The term zero trust has become the next in a long line of popular terms used by cybersecurity companies to associate their offerings with a more sophisticated, next-generation approach.
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AgTech Revolution: Patent Data, Financings, and Digitization Suggest Acceleration of Innovation for Next Decade
A rapid increase of capital flowing into AgTech, or precision ag, is leading to new technological introductions and potentially disruptive newcomers vying to capture more value from the ag supply chain.
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State of the Consumer Recovery
COVID-19 has had profound influences on the U.S. economy, institutions, and lives and livelihoods of consumers. William Blair's consumer equity research team anticipates the recovery in consumer spending to continue, albeit probably at a less steep pace in coming months and with likely volatility as coronavirus cases begin to rise again.
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All the Vectors
COVID-19 Tracker, industry data points, literature links, and bright spots.
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Agility Now: The Coming Battle for DevOps Supremacy
As the world moves to a software-centric orientation, the process by which software applications are being created and deployed is undergoing radical change.
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Online Resale—The Next Great Disruptive Force in Retail
While resale historically has been a smaller portion of the second-hand market, the more recent emergence of online resale, including consignment platforms, has helped push the market into a faster stage of growth, poised to take greater share.
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