| BCA Research | |
| Type: | Privately Held Company |
| Foundation: | 1949 |
| Founder: | A. Hamilton Bolton |
| Location: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Locations: | New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Sydney. |
| Key People: | Eric Jaffe, Nicoletta Manoleas, Peter Berezin, |
| Industry: | Financial services |
BCA Research Inc. (BCA) is an investment research company based in Canada. The firm is also sometimes referred to by the title of its first publication: The Bank Credit Analyst.
BCA provides analysis and forecasts of major asset classes and economies, with the goal of helping clients make investment decisions. The company delivers multiple types of research for a variety of uses and at various levels of detail, including global macroeconomic and geopolitical analysis, region-specific analyses of markets in locations such as the United States and China, and single asset research. They also provide tools and resources for portfolio analysis. The research is delivered to clients through live-streamed research meetings, daily insights, weekly bulletins, monthly and quarterly reports, special reports, chart packs, conferences, roadshows, podcasts, webcasts, digital/social platforms, and custom client calls.[1]
Clients include portfolio managers, hedge funds, asset management firms, pension funds and endowments, central banks, security dealers, sovereign wealth funds, private banking, insurance companies, private equity firms, family offices, and individual investors.[2]
BCA Research was recognized as the leading independent investment research firm in North America in 2010,[3] and in Europe in 2011.[4]
BCA was founded in 1949 by A. Hamilton Bolton in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bolton was known for his work on the Elliot Wave Theory,[5] and he published Money and Investment Profits, a book on investments and the business cycle,[6] just prior to his death in 1967. He was succeeded by J. Anthony Boeckh, who led the company from 1968 to 2001. During that time, Bolton's original work on supercycles was refined into what BCA calls the "debt supercycle."[7] [8]
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC bought Metal Bulletin along with BCA Research in 2006.[9]