financial-services

Generate professional company tear sheets using S&P Capital IQ data via the Kensho LLM-ready API MCP server. Use this skill whenever the user asks for a tear sheet, company one-pager, company profile, fact sheet, company snapshot, or company overview document — especially when they mention a specific company name or ticker. Also trigger when users ask for equity research summaries, M&A company profiles, corporate development target profiles, sales/BD meeting prep documents, or any concise single-company financial summary. This skill supports four audience types: equity research, investment banking/M&A, corporate development, and sales/business development. If the user doesn't specify an audience, ask. Works for both public and private companies.

Generate a polished one-page PowerPoint slide summarizing key takeaways from recent funding rounds and notable capital markets activity across a user's watched sectors or companies. Use this skill when the user asks for a deal flow summary, weekly recap, funding digest, transaction roundup, or capital markets briefing. Triggers on: 'deal flow digest', 'weekly funding recap', 'deal roundup', 'transaction summary this week', 'what happened in [sector] this week', 'capital markets update', or any request to compile recent funding activity into a briefing slide. Produces a professional single-slide PPTX with key takeaways, valuation data, and Capital IQ deal links.

Generate a concise 4-5 page equity research earnings preview for a single company. Analyzes the most recent earnings transcript, competitor landscape, valuation, and recent news to produce a professional HTML report.

Analyze the interest rate swap curve by pricing swaps at multiple tenors, overlaying government and inflation curves, and identifying curve trade opportunities. Use when analyzing swap curves, computing swap spreads, decomposing real rates, identifying steepener/flattener/butterfly trades, or comparing swap rates across currencies.

Analyze option volatility by combining vol surface data, option pricing with Greeks, and historical price data to assess implied vs realized volatility. Use when pricing options, analyzing volatility surfaces, computing Greeks, assessing vol premiums, or evaluating vol trading strategies.

Build macroeconomic and rates dashboards combining macro indicators, yield curves, inflation breakevens, and swap rates. Use when monitoring macro conditions, analyzing yield curve shape, decomposing real vs nominal rates, assessing policy rate expectations, or evaluating financial conditions.

Evaluate FX carry trade opportunities by combining spot rates, forward points, interest rate differentials, volatility surface analysis, and historical price trends. Use when analyzing carry trades, comparing FX forward curves, assessing carry-to-vol ratios, or evaluating currency pair opportunities.

Review fixed income portfolios by pricing multiple bonds, retrieving reference data, analyzing cashflows, and running scenario analysis. Use when reviewing bond portfolios, computing portfolio duration and DV01, analyzing cashflow waterfalls, stress testing rate scenarios, or assessing portfolio composition.

Generate comprehensive equity research snapshots combining analyst consensus estimates, company fundamentals, historical prices, and macroeconomic context. Use when researching stocks, comparing estimates to actuals, analyzing company financials, assessing equity valuations, or building investment cases.

Perform relative value analysis on bonds by combining pricing, yield curve context, credit spreads, and scenario stress testing. Use when analyzing bond richness/cheapness, computing spread decomposition, comparing bonds, assessing bond value vs curves, or running rate shock scenarios.

Analyze the bond futures basis by pricing futures, identifying the cheapest-to-deliver, and comparing with yield curves to assess delivery option value and basis trading opportunities. Use when analyzing bond futures, computing the basis, identifying CTD bonds, calculating implied repo rates, or evaluating basis trades.

Track and analyze portfolio company performance against plan. Ingests monthly/quarterly financial packages (Excel, PDF), extracts KPIs, flags variances to budget, and produces summary dashboards. Use when reviewing portfolio company financials, preparing board materials, or monitoring covenant compliance. Triggers on "review portfolio company", "monthly financials", "how is [company] performing", "covenant check", or "portfolio update".

Draft a structured investment committee memo for PE deal approval. Synthesizes due diligence findings, financial analysis, and deal terms into a professional IC-ready document. Use when preparing for investment committee, writing up a deal, or creating a formal recommendation. Triggers on "write IC memo", "investment committee memo", "deal write-up", "prepare IC materials", or "recommendation memo".

Tie an LP statement to the fund's NAV pack — recompute the LP's capital account from the NAV components and flag any line that doesn't agree. Use before LP statements are distributed.

Populates investment banking pitch deck templates with data from source files. Use when: user provides a PowerPoint template to fill in, user has source data (Excel/CSV) to populate into slides, user mentions populating or filling a pitch deck template, or user needs to transfer data into existing slide layouts. Not for creating presentations from scratch.

Investment banking presentation quality checker. Reviews a pitch deck or client-ready presentation for (1) number consistency across slides, (2) data-narrative alignment, (3) language polish against IB standards, (4) visual and formatting QC. Use whenever the user asks to review, check, QC, proof, or do a final pass on a deck, pitch, or client materials — including requests like "check my numbers", "reconcile figures across slides", "is this client-ready", or "what am I missing before I send this out".

Updates a presentation with new numbers — quarterly refreshes, earnings updates, comp rolls, rebased market data. Use whenever the user asks to "update the deck with Q4 numbers", "refresh the comps", "roll this forward", "swap in the new earnings", "change all the $485M to $512M", or any request to swap figures across an existing deck without rebuilding it.

Write flux commentary for every P&L and balance-sheet line over threshold — current vs prior period and vs budget, with the driver explained from underlying activity. Use for the month-end close package and management reporting.

Build a roll-forward schedule for a balance-sheet account — beginning balance plus activity less reversals equals ending balance, with each component tied to GL. Use for month-end close packages and audit support.

Build the period-end accrual schedule — for each accrual, compute the entry, cite the support, and draft the JE. Use during month-end close; the JE is a draft for controller approval, not a posting.

This skill should be used when completing LBO (Leveraged Buyout) model templates in Excel for private equity transactions, deal materials, or investment committee presentations. The skill fills in formulas, validates calculations, and ensures professional formatting standards that adapt to any template structure.

Real DCF (Discounted Cash Flow) model creation for equity valuation. Retrieves financial data from SEC filings and analyst reports, builds comprehensive cash flow projections with proper WACC calculations, performs sensitivity analysis, and outputs professional Excel models with executive summaries. Use when users need to value a company using DCF methodology, request intrinsic value analysis, or ask for detailed financial modeling with growth projections and terminal value calculations.

Complete, populate and fill out 3-statement financial model templates (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement) . Use when asked to fill out model templates, complete existing model frameworks, populate financial models with data, complete a partially filled IS/BS/CF framework, or link integrated financial statements within an existing template structure. Triggers include requests to fill in, complete, or populate a 3-statement model template

Create professional investment proposals for prospective clients. Covers the firm's approach, proposed allocation, expected outcomes, and fee structure. Use when pitching new clients or presenting a new investment strategy. Triggers on "investment proposal", "prospect presentation", "pitch new client", "proposal for [client]", or "new client presentation".

Prepare for client review meetings with portfolio performance summary, allocation analysis, talking points, and action items. Pulls together account data into a concise meeting-ready format. Use before quarterly reviews, annual checkups, or ad-hoc client meetings. Triggers on "client review", "meeting prep for [client]", "quarterly review", "prep for [client name]", or "client meeting".