BCMStrategy Inc.

We help portfolio managers, strategists, advocates, & risk managers connect the dots faster & make next-gen data driven decisions about public policy risks by providing the first – and only – quantitative volume measurements of global policy. Along the way, we enhance your efficiency: you spend less time finding information and more time on analysis.
*Our public policy EXPERTISE runs deep: decades of senior level experience making decisions in government and at the global level.
*Our KNOWLEDGE runs deep: multiple advanced degrees and on-the-job experience in quantitative finance, law, and international relations.
*Our award-winning, patented TECHNOLOGY is revolutionary. Converting words into numbers helps you see the shape and volume of public policy risk quantitatively.
*Our DATA shows you daily how much activity occurred globally for specific issue, disaggregated across the factors that drive policy: rhetoric, data releases, action, leaks to the media, & judicial activity.

The only multivariate time series data measuring public policy formation momentum and volatility. Patented, award-winning, and backtested, the data anticipates market volatility by measuring activity levels before, during, and after journalists generate headlines. Data generated from 14 of our 1000+ terms have been tickerized, accelerating the capacity for sophisticated investors to draw a direct line automatically between policy shifts and specific tradeable securities.

Use Cases: Pre-Trade Decision Intelligence
Measure & Anticipate Public Policy Risks Objectively

• Alerts for volatility, event-based, and futures trading strategies regarding policy-related risks
• Alerts for individual ETFs and sectoral indices exposed to shifts in public policy
• Anticipate headline risk using immediately actionable information: buy the fact, sell the headline
• Investment Thesis discovery & validation
• Scenario Analysis and Nowcasting model parameterization
• Factor analysis, in which public policy risks and reaction functions regarding public policy risks are directly modeled

We use as inputs the language of the public policy process, sourced globally and automatically every day. Our inputs focus on the key policymaking institutions that drive outcomes in Europe, North America, and Asia and some international organizations.
Our award-winning, patented, backtested process converts words into volume-based measurement of action and activity levels that identifies the momentum along the path towards a policy decision….before the decision has been made.

–Patented process: We have the exclusive right to generate quantitative volume measurements from the public policy process.

–Awards: We are the only firm in our peer group to be named Finalist at the NATO Innovation Hub Challenge (2020) and the G20/BIS TechSprint Challenge (2021, for our climate finance policy data).

–Subject Matter Expertise and Senior Policymaking Experience: We know how policymaking works from the inside out…and we programmed accordingly. We are the only firm in our peer group with technology that originates in deep experience within the national and global public policy process at the leadership level all branches of government and across all major national capitals. No other firm has Senate-confirmed former government officials and former officials that have negotiated agreements, statements, and documents at the global level. Our system thus starts at a higher level of analytical sophistication and operational experience. We know how policymaking works from the inside out…and we programmed accordingly.

Our data policy is simple. We respect privacy and intellectual property. We do not collect personally identifiable data in our data generation/quantification process. We will never share customer data with third parties absent a court order.