Why is Pakistan the top outsourcing location for investment research?

No one can deny investment research and its importance in the financial markets. Companies spend millions of dollars in hiring the services of expert investment research analyst every year. It's about time when companies discovered outsourcing as a cost saving solution, since they gone through a difficult period of recession in USA and European market.

Many giant companies have already outsourced their research and analysis services to china and India. Normally following investment research services are outsourced:

1. Ratio Analysis

2. Market Surveys

3. Portfolio Analysis

4. Feasibility Analysis

5. Comparative Analysis

6. Industry Specific Research

7. Technical and Fundamental Research

The biggest reason of outsourcing investment research is to cut the cost. Since under privileged economies offers a low wage structure as compared to developed countries. Following are other advantages:

1. Effective use of your internal resources and capital.

2. Cut more than 70% cost of your HR expense.

1. Access to most qualified professionals of the market like MBAs, CAs, CFAs
2. Knowledge, expertise, experience and focus on limited process with state of the art technologies results in unmatched quality of service.
3. Advantage of time difference is almost 12 hours results in 24 x 7 services.
4. Limited process in-house mean less stress on you and better ROI of capital. It provides an opportunity to use internal resources more effectively.

Even in the BPO industry, trends are changing aggressively. India was considered to be a giant player of late, but its growth rate has come down in the last year due to the entry of more cost efficient firms in the market. Pakistan is one of those countries who are emerging aggressively in the sector of investment research and analysis. Major reason is availability of foreign qualified and expert professionals at low cost as compared to India. Since main reason to outsource is taking advantage of the labor arbitrage, and Pakistan is providing it much better then India and other countries of BPO market.

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