Career Research for Business Students: Sector Specific Resources

The primary broad category of relevance is: Finance and Insurance. To access First Research reports scroll down and select the First Research link, then input your email address on the left side of the interface. Coverage includes Life Insurance Carriers, Mortgage Banking, Accounting Services, Banks & Credit Unions, Financial Planners & Investment Advisors, and Investment Banking.

Investext provides access to analyst reports for publicly-traded companies. The reports are produced by analysts from investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms. Reports include analyses on company and industry financial performance, SWOTs, M&A, trends, challenges, and much more. Investext includes current and historical analyst reports. Quick search tips: (1) Search for a publicly-traded company’s most recent analyst reports using the Company Search field > On report landing page, click Reports tab > click Broker Research reports link; (2) To conduct more advanced searches such as historical reports, initiating coverage reports, or reports from specific investment banks, click on the Investext tab (far right-hand side tab) to go to the advanced search form.

Includes Canadian and U.S. Industry Reports (NAICS), U.S. Specialized Industry Reports, U.S. Industry iExpert Summaries, Chinese and Global Industry Reports, and U.S. Business Environment Profiles. Broad industry level for Finance and Insurance. Examples of Canadian sub-industries include: Commercial Banking, Insurance Brokers & Agencies, Credit Unions, Loan Administration, and Check Cashing & Other Services. U.S. sub-industries include: Commercial Banking, Portfolio Management, Private Equity, Hedge Funds & Investment Vehicles, Credit Card Issuing, Financial Planning & Advice, Venture Capital & Principal Trading, among others.

Procurement Reports include over 1,000 business-to-business product and service markets in the United States and facilitate industry research especially in areas such as purchasing, supply chain management, and strategic sourcing.

Have reports under the broad industry level of consumer finance. Search full tree (categories and topics) > Select Consumer Finance (or expand + to see sub-categories) > Click Next > Geographies (click + next to North "America, select Canada)> Click Search on top right corner

Broad industry level for Financial Services with sub-industries, including: Capital Markets & Trading, Cards, Corporate & Investment Banking, Financial Services Distributors, General Insurance; Property & Casualty, Life & Pensions, Reinsurance, Retail Banking & Lending, Savings & Investments, and Wealth Management & Private Banking. To search industry reports directly select “Industries” from the drop-down menu option which appears beside the main search box.

This database provides access to country risk and industry reports for over 200 countries. Their industry reports cover 22 high-level industry sectors and include current and archived industry report content. Use the Data Tool to download historical and forecast data. Review our step-by-step FitchConnect guide to learn how to navigate this database. Please note, the library's subscription does not cover all of the content in this database.

Including: Banking and Insurance. To access industry reports select “Report Search” and then “Industry Reports” which appears beside “Equity Reports” under the series of blue tabs at the top of the screen. Select the industry and region of interest.

Including IT reports for the following industry sectors: Banking & Investment Services and Insurance. Note that a York e-mail address (not the Schulich one) is needed to access this e-resource. To obtain a York e-mail address, if you don’t have one, go to http://mms.yorku.ca and sign in with Passport York. Activate your e-mail service.

Including: Alcoholic drinks, Apparel, Beauty and personal care, Consumer appliances, Consumer electronics, Consumer foodservice, Eyewear, Fresh food, Home and garden, Home care, Hot drinks, Packaging, Packaged Food, Personal accessories, Pet care, Retailing, Soft drinks, Tissue and hygiene, Tobacco, Toys and games, Travel and tourism. Also offers many sub-industries. Look for “Category Briefing” for country specific industry reports.

See the Passport User Guide and video tutorials for help with searching and navigating this resource.

Contains reports on many niche industries in Canada. Search by keywords or browse reports by industry sector.

Including: Aerospace and defense, Automotive, Chemicals, Industrial goods and machinery, Paper and packaging, Pharmaceuticals and healthcare, Textiles, Transport & logistics. Also offers many sub-industries.
To isolate searching to industry reports (published by Datamonitor) select “Industries” from the drop-down menu option which appears beside the main search box.

Broad industry categories can be expanded for niche reports. Categories related to Consumer Products and Services are: Retail, Government, Education, Recreation, Food & Agriculture, Services and Technology & Communication. To access the reports scroll down and select the First Research link, then input your email address on the left of the interface.

This database provides access to country risk and industry reports for over 200 countries. Their industry reports cover 22 high-level industry sectors and include current and archived industry report content. Use the Data Tool to download historical and forecast data. Review our step-by-step FitchConnect guide to learn how to navigate this database. Please note, the library's subscription does not cover all of the content in this database.

To access industry reports select “Industry Analysis” and then select the Industry and Region of interest.
Sample industries include: Hospitality & tourism, Insurance, Media, Property and development, Retail.

Including: Apparel, Dolls, Toys and Games, Footwear, Furniture, Jewelery, Silverware, and Sporting Goods, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Major household appliances, Printing and related support activities, Specialized Design Services, Recreational boats, Retail trade, Tourism, Wholesale.

Including: US - Real Estate Investment Trusts, Real Estate Loans & Collateralized Debt. Examples of Canadian reports include - Construction, Apartment & Condominium Construction, Commercial Building Construction, Home Builders, Industrial Building Construction, Bridge and Elevated Highway Construction, Real Esate Appraisal, Rental and Leasing, Apartment Rental, Property Management, etc.

Specialized database covering infrastructure finance and project finance globally. Some restrictions apply, contact Angie (angiean@yorku.ca) for access.

Investext provides access to analyst reports for publicly-traded companies. The reports are produced by analysts from investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms. Reports include analyses on company and industry financial performance, SWOTs, M&A, trends, challenges, and much more. Investext includes current and historical analyst reports. Quick search tips: (1) Search for a publicly-traded company’s most recent analyst reports using the Company Search field > On report landing page, click Reports tab > click Broker Research reports link; (2) To conduct more advanced searches such as historical reports, initiating coverage reports, or reports from specific investment banks, click on the Investext tab (far right-hand side tab) to go to the advanced search form.

For reports on real estate and construction, select the Industrial link under the Economies tab. Has a report for real estate activities in Canada. Also contains some articles and opinion pieces on property market and real estate trends internationally.

The primary broad category of relevance is: Construction and Real Estate. To access First Research reports scroll down and select the First Research link, then input your email address on the left side of the interface.

Including: Construction and Real Estate, Construction Materials, Building Construction, Real Estate Transactions, Real Estate Investment Trusts, Real Estate Agents and Brokers. To search industry reports directly select “Industries” from the drop-down menu option which appears beside the main search box.

This database provides access to country risk and industry reports for over 200 countries. Their industry reports cover 22 high-level industry sectors and include current and archived industry report content. Use the Data Tool to download historical and forecast data. Review our step-by-step FitchConnect guide to learn how to navigate this database. Please note, the library's subscription does not cover all of the content in this database.

Including: Heavy Construction, Property & Development. To access industry reports select the “Industry Analysis” tab and then select the industry and region of interest.

Investext provides access to analyst reports for publicly-traded companies. The reports are produced by analysts from investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms. Reports include analyses on company and industry financial performance, SWOTs, M&A, trends, challenges, and much more. Investext includes current and historical analyst reports. Quick search tips: (1) Search for a publicly-traded company’s most recent analyst reports using the Company Search field > On report landing page, click Reports tab > click Broker Research reports link; (2) To conduct more advanced searches such as historical reports, initiating coverage reports, or reports from specific investment banks, click on the Investext tab (far right-hand side tab) to go to the advanced search form.

Provides business intelligence on companies, countries, industries, and consumers. This includes healthcare reports (e.g. good coverage of OTC healthcare) and a wide range of health related statistics. Offers demographic, economics and marketing statistics: historic and forecast consumer lifestyle statistics; analysis of consumer lifestyles by country; market size for consumer products; market research reports; brand shares and more.

Includes a substantial range of health-care industries. These reports are comprehensive including categories such as: Industry at a glance, Performance, Outlook, Products & Markets, Competitive Landscape, Operating Conditions and Key Statistics.

To access First Research reports scroll down and select the First Research link, then enter your email address on the left side of the interface. Contains reports on a wide range of health industries including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, health insurance, biotechnology, as well as traditional healthcare players, e.g. hospitals, physicians,

Covers some health related industries such as pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Also provides access to the Burden of Disease database including World Health Organization (WHO), World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and BMI data. This is a database detailing the disability-adjusted life years lost to disease and other causes of death in each age and gender cohort of 180+ states.

Offers a wide range of in-depth market research reports on the healthcare industry including biotechnology, drug delivery, drugs manufacturing, e-health, generics, healthcare services, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and OTC drugs manufacturing. Coverage is international.

Covers biotechnology, health care, medical instruments and equipment, and pharmaceuticals. To access industry reports select the “Industry Analysis” tab and then select the industry and region of interest.

A specialized e-resource for IT industry research IT issues/areas with coverage of many health-related IT topics.

Specialized e-resource for IT industry research: Application development and integration, Business intelligence, Business processing management, Consumer technologies, CRM, Data management and integration, Emerging trends and technologies, Enterprise architecture, ERP and supply chain management, High-performance workplaces, IT asset management, IT management, IT operations, IT services, Mobile and wireless, Networking and communications equipment, Networking and communications services, Open source, Outsourcing, PCs, laptops and handheld services, Regulatory compliance, Security and privacy, Servers and storage, Web services.

Including at broad industry level (see NAICS reports): Information, Professional, scientific and technical services. Also offers many sub-industry/ specialized reports which could be consulted for small niche industries.

The primary broad category of relevance is: Technology and Communications. To access First Research reports scroll down and select the First Research link, then enter your email address on the left side of the interface.

Includes category reports on consumer electronics, and ISIC reports (see Industrial subtab under the Economies main tab) on some technology/computing related sectors in Canada specifically. The consumers section of the database also contains data on consumer trends related to IT themes.

Including: Communications, Technology and services. Also offers many sub-industries.
To isolate searching by industry reports (published by Datamonitor) select “Industries” from the drop-down menu option which appears beside the main search box.

This database provides access to country risk and industry reports for over 200 countries. Their industry reports cover 22 high-level industry sectors and include current and archived industry report content. Use the Data Tool to download historical and forecast data. Review our step-by-step FitchConnect guide to learn how to navigate this database. Please note, the library's subscription does not cover all of the content in this database.

Including: IT & High Technology, Telecommunications.
To access industry reports select the “Industry Analysis” tab and then select the industry and region of interest.

Including: Hydrogen and fuel cells, Nanotechnologies, Ocean technologies, Life sciences.

This database rates companies on environmental, social and governance performance (ESG) while also including commentary and qualitative analysis of company performance, e.g. policies and programs in effect and controversy reports for for each company. Use command CRTL+F5 if having trouble downloading report on campus.

Available at the Bronfman Business Library. Use ESG command