Akshit Gupta Email & Phone Number

India

India

Seasoned and perceptive market research professional with nearly 5 years of experience providing dividend forecasts for equities and exchange-traded funds in the Americas region. Highly skilled in collecting, synthesizing, and summarizing data, with hands-on experience completing development research and building new revenue streams for products.Fixed Income Exchange traded fundsIn my role as the ETF project lead, I authored new methodologies for forecasting Fixed Income ETFs, achieving an accuracy level of approximately 90%. Additionally, I played a key role in utilizing Azure, designing user interfaces (UIs), and providing guidance for the successful execution of the project's development.Thematic reportsConsistently communicated research findings on the healthcare and insurance sector to clients through thematic reports and concise weekly summaries. Cash flow analysis, R&D analysis, ratio analysis, debt analysis, trailing and forward yields, and assessment of micro and macro fundamentals were the main methodologies employed.Quality checks || Rules and policiesDesigned and implemented a robust quality checks and rules system for the exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This initiative resulted in a 50% decrease in client escalations and approximately a 70% improvement in data quality.ETF expansionIncreased the coverage of ETF coverage by a factor of 10, achieving a forecast accuracy of more than 95%. Additionally, developed proven methodologies that have opened up new revenue streams for the company

Noida

IHS Markit provides independent and discrete dividend forecasts for over 28,000 global stocks. Markit Dividend Forecasting team takes a comprehensive approach in analyzing influential factors to deliver up-to-date projections on dividend amounts and payment schedules (Ex-dividend date, Record Date, and the Pay date).My role involves:• Forecasting dividend amount and related dates (Ex-dividend date, Record Date, and the Pay date) using publicly available data such as company fundamentals, peer groups, historical patterns, distribution policies, transcripts, and company guidance for sectors such as HealthCare and Insurance within the United States and Canada.• Working on tools like FACTSET, Data-scope Select, EDI, FACTIVA, and utilizing various Stock Exchange Feeds for my research & findings.• Browsing through various wires, exchange feeds, and company websites for dividend related information and other corporate actions and updating the database accordingly.• Responding to client queries to provide bespoke analysis on dividend estimates, date patterns, statistical confidence-score, market trends, government regulations, and stock exchange rules through Salesforce.• Updating and tracking corporate actions having an impact on dividends such as stock splits, reverse stock splits, bonus issues, rights issues, stock dividends, etc. from company websites and stock exchanges. • Writing one-paged research reports relating to significant dividend stories for clients.• Contributing to the publication of intra-day alerts on the latest dividend trends to keep our clients updated on time.• Working on tools like Website-watcher to track relevant key dates from the company website and updating the database accordingly.• Browsing ETF and ADR related news and releases and updating the dividend distribution in our database.• Tracking the daily changes made to the accrued incomes, NAV’s and forecasting the dividends for major funds like SPY, QQQ, and DIA.

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