1. What are the sources and trends in the demand for Instinet products across its lines of business?
(what is their product needed? existing and potentially addressable market, customer switching costs)
2.What is the Regulatory landscape across Instinet Group’s businesses and the outlook for it?
(order of importance, is it biased towards antitrust enforcement or IP-right protection? aggressiveness of customer protection, public relation risks)
3. What has the competition looked like for IB and Instinet? Direct and Indirect
(Incumbents, market share trends, barriers to entry, marketing intensity)
4. What are the characteristics of IB’s and Instinet’s production technology?
(Operating leverage, scalability, investment cycle/intensity)
5. How risky are the IG’s businesses? Think about both systematic risk (i.e. market beta) and idiosyncratic?
(qualitatively and based the past stock returns and valuations of the IG and its competitors. Is there debt capacity?)
6. Is there a unique advantage in the near future for either IB or Instinet to profitably grow market share and/or enjoy better margins and/or invest less to maintain a given cash flow?
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