We support fixed income and credit research activities across various client segments and rating categories. We can provide credit research across different geographies and have a full suite of solutions to meet the requirement of any client globally. 1) Investment grade: Equinox can produce detailed or short credit notes covering individual issuers, or within a particular sector or geography. We can assist your team in generating trade ideas or evaluating an investment opportunity through thematic studies and regular monitoring of key trends. Equinox can also assist in building credit models from scratch with periodic maintenance. 2) High Yield and Leveraged Finance: We can build and maintain credit models on HY instruments and provide recommendations or assist your research desk in identifying investment opportunities in this space. The models can analyze key items like indenture screening, covenant analysis, stress testing and scenario analysis. Equinox can also prepare flash reports and updates upon earnings releases or after a major event. Our team can also support on conference call summaries and management meets. 3) Distressed debt: For such instruments we can assist in conducting recovery analysis of different debt pieces under stress. The analysis can also capture covenant effectiveness along with real time tracking of news and events. 4) Sovereign: We can help your research efforts in monitoring debt issued by sovereigns across the emerging and developed market landscape. The research output can include detailed notes on sovereigns covering topics such as corporate governance, fiscal and monetary policies, political environment as well as macroeconomic developments. 5) Structured finance: Analysis and periodic review of asset classes, including RMBS, CMBS, CLOs, CDOs and ABS. Investment memos on deals can include detailed cash flow analysis, financial modeling and shadow ratings. We can also provide flash reports on significant events in portfolio companies such as refinancing lawsuits, acquisitions, etc.