FAQs
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Hawkshaw stands out through three primary differentiators:
1. Extensive Experience: Hawkshaw’s founder Kian Ghazi has two-and-a-half decades of short selling experience, which is quite rare among third-party research service providers.
2. Proprietary Industry Contacts: Each report is backed by up to 12 interviews with carefully sourced industry executives, with clients having access to our detailed interview notes.
3. Customizable Subscriptions: Clients can filter research by criteria like industry, market cap, volume, long vs. short, growth vs. value—paying only for relevant reports.
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Very. Clients can tailor their subscription using extensive filters: industry, market cap, average daily volume, long vs. short, growth vs. value, and any other preference. This ensures they receive only relevant investment ideas.
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The minimum market cap is $2 billion and minimum average daily volume is $30 million, and if you require higher thresholds you can customize your subscription to increase these parameters and only receive the ideas that fit your requirements.
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Yes, we offer customized subscriptions at competitive pricing to provide you only the types of reports you’re interested in, including a short-only subscription offering.
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Hawkshaw has generated over 15% average annualized alpha on all ideas (winners and losers) over the last 5 years.
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No, we only serve institutional investment firms.
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We maintain strict confidentiality to protect the identity of our client base but our typical client is a concentrated, research intensive, long-short investment fund.
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95%, demonstrating that clients are finding great value in our work.
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We offer standard packages for 3, 12 and 20 reports. Pricing ranges from $12,500 to $100,000+ based on the number of reports and service tier. Our premium tier includes a working model with adjustable drivers and the detailed notes from our expert calls (anonymized to protect the contacts identify). Clients can customize their subscription to only receive reports that meet their unique investment strategy.
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We maintain rigorous compliance procedures to safeguard against the inclusion of material nonpublic information in our reports and transcripts. In addition to ensuring both our analysts and the experts understand their compliance obligations, every transcript is subject to compliance review in order to identify and redact any sensitive information prior to publication. Our goal is to provide high-quality investment analysis while maintaining rigorous standards of confidentiality and compliance—giving all stakeholders confidence in our process.
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Although Hawkshaw is not a Registered Investment Advisor, the company adheres strictly to legal and ethical standards relevant to investment research. All team members—including officers, analysts, partners, and contractors—must read, understand, and follow the Firm’s Compliance Manual and go through annual training to maintain the firm’s dedication to maintaining rigorous compliance standards.