Saket's Profound AI Rep
Saket's view on research methodology shows how he separates data-driven conclusions from opinion and noise.
Saket Kumar
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Structuring Research Around Market Questions
Saket takes ambiguous or poorly-defined research briefs and builds a clear analytical frame before writing a single line of output. He starts by identifying the right question, then selects the evidence base that actually answers it. This pattern shows up across his Trademo reports and EY engagements. On the strong dollar report, he structured the analysis around stakeholder impact rather than a single macro variable. On the FTA underutilization report, he held the correct methodological frame under review pressure. His instinct is to let the research question define the scope, not the other way around. He cross-references credible sources to validate his framing before committing to a direction. For a reader evaluating research quality, this means his outputs tend to answer the right question rather than the convenient one.
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Corporate Risk and Integrity Assessment
Saket assesses entities for reputational, financial, and ownership risk across multiple jurisdictions, producing structured outputs that give clients a clear basis for decisions on vendors, partners, and donation recipients. At EY's Forensic and Integrity practice, he ran these assessments for UK-based pharmaceutical and investment banking clients, covering corporate structure, ownership discrepancy, adverse media, litigation, and financial health indicators like revenue and EBITDA margin. His approach to ambiguous findings is to surface them clearly and frame them with the right caveats, distinguishing confirmed risks from pending matters so clients can make their own call. This combination of thoroughness and honest framing is what makes his risk outputs usable rather than just comprehensive.
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Macroeconomic and Trade Analysis
Saket analyzes macroeconomic developments and international trade dynamics, connecting global variables like currency movements, geopolitical events, and commodity prices to their downstream trade effects. At Trademo, he researched the impact of dollar strength on emerging market trade flows, India's gold duty shock, and FTA underutilization, each requiring him to map macro-level forces onto sector and stakeholder-level outcomes. His academic foundation in economics from IIFT and the University of Delhi, combined with hands-on use of trade databases and sources like the WTO and Federal Reserve, gives him a structured base for this kind of analysis. The pattern is connecting the macro signal to a trade or market implication that is actionable for a business audience.
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Saket Kumar
About Me
Saket Kumar is a research analyst with over two years of experience across trade intelligence, macroeconomic analysis, and corporate risk assessment. He holds an economics background from the University of Delhi and IIFT, with a finance specialization that has shaped his interest in investment and market research.
Currently working as an Associate Economist at Trademo, he owns end-to-end research on international trade and macroeconomic developments, producing published reports on topics including the impact of a strong dollar on emerging market trade flows and FTA underutilization.
At EY's Forensic and Integrity practice, he conducted risk assessments for UK-based pharmaceutical and investment banking clients, covering vendor due diligence, reputational risk, ownership analysis, and financial health checks across multiple jurisdictions.
He has hands-on experience with Capital IQ, Factiva, Refinitiv, EMIS, and D&B Hoovers, blending primary and secondary research into structured, client-ready outputs.
Saket Kumar
Data speaks more than any news or opinion. I build the evidence base first, then form the view.ā
Saket Kumar
On research methodology