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Capstone's Capital Markets Advantage
Proposed regulation and a burgeoning activist philosophy on the part of regulators is transforming industry. Our team complements its expertise in policy and politics with substantial investment buy-side and sell-side experience. We rigorously identify and quantify regulatory and political risks and opportunities in a wide swath of companies and specific transactions, providing differentiated insight in the process.
We dig deeper
Our process always involves a deep-dive analysis of state, federal, and international, and global policy. Our analysts mine news outlets, legislation, events, and other public resources to come up with unique investment ideas with a policy angle. We leverage our extensive outreach to relevant industry associations, advocacy groups, regulators, policymakers, and think tanks to gain a solid understanding of the relevant political landscape and the issues at hand. Our analysts focus on the minutiae of public policy by reading and reviewing public documents, including proposed rules and comment letters, proposed and enacted legislation, as well as policy meetings and hearings.
We engage
Our analysts regularly consult with our clients to help them understand important policy issues. An engagement with Capstone includes the ability to request ad-hoc policy research on existing and potential investments. At the direction of clients, our team can quickly identify key regulatory issues impacting investments. We treat client requests with complete confidentiality. Our focus on a fee-based model, rather than one requiring us to drive trading volume among our clients, allows us to maintain a more compact customer base permitting a more robust dialogue with our clients than our peers.
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Google Search Remedy: Data-Sharing Creates Opportunities for Rivals
September 16, 2025 By Ian Tang and Kate Lardner, TMT Analysts Capstone believes a federal court’s decision requiring Alphabet Inc.’s Google to share the index that powers its search engine with search engine rivals and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)...
From Nvidia to Naval Drones: How China Competition Could Impact the Campaign Trail
September 2, 2025 By Daniel Silverberg and Elena McGovern, Co-Heads of Capstone’s National Security Practice While media attention remains focused on the Israel-Gaza conflict and stalled Ukraine-Russia negotiations, several quieter but strategically significant...
The Rule That Could Put Unconventional Driverless Cars on the Road and Shake Up Industry
August 25, 2025 A little-known federal rule, AV STEP, could transform the economics of autonomous vehicles by allowing cars without steering wheels or pedals to deploy at scale. Capstone believes it will be finalized by 2027, setting Tesla and Amazon’s Zoox up for...
