FAQs

  • 1. Proprietary Industry Contacts: Each report is backed by up to 12 interviews with carefully sourced, key industry executives. Clients have access to our detailed interview notes.

    2. Customizable Subscriptions: Clients can customize subscriptions by industry, long/short, growth/value, market cap, ADV, etc. so only relevant reports are received.

    3. Extensive Experience: Hawkshaw’s founder, Kian Ghazi, has two-and-a-half decades of short-selling experience, rare among third-party research service providers. Additionally, analysts have a minimum of 10 years’ hedge fund experience.

  • Hawkshaw has generated over 15% average annualized alpha on all ideas (winners and losers) over the past 5 years.

  • Extremely. 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 feature ensures receipt of only relevant investment ideas, saving time and money.

  • Yes. We offer customized subscriptions with competitive pricing to ensure you only receive relevant reports - including a short-only report option.

  • Our investment idea minimum market cap is $2 billion and our minimum average daily volume is $30 million. If you require higher thresholds, your subscription can be customized to match your investment mandates.

  • 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.

  • 95% of our clients renew their subscription, demonstrating the significant value clients get from our work.

  • We offer 3, 12 and 20 report subscriptions with pricing ranging from $12,500 to $100,000+ depending on the number of reports and service tier. Our premium subscription tier includes a working model with adjustable drivers and detailed notes from our expert calls (anonymized to protect the contact’s identity).

  • We use rigorous industry-leading compliance procedures to safeguard against the inclusion of material nonpublic information in our reports and in our transcripts. In addition to ensuring both our analysts and our experts understand their compliance obligations, every transcript is subject to a compliance review to identify and redact any sensitive information prior to publication. Our goal is to give all stakeholders confidence in our process while also providing high-quality investment analysis.

  • Although Hawkshaw is not a Registered Investment Advisor, the company strictly adheres 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. Additionally, Hawkshaw conducts annual training to ensure we are following and maintaining the most rigorous compliance standards.

  • Unfortunately, no. We serve institutional firms with subscription packages ranging from $12,500 to over $100,000 depending upon number of reports and selected tier.