The speaker says buy-side analysis combines macroeconomic context, news, rumors, and non-public information to form an investment view.

“On the buy side, what we tend to look at, uh, also is sort of like the sort of mosaic of everything else that's macro. Um, so this tends to inclu- clude a lot of news flow, a lot of rumors, a lot of non-public information that you sort of stitch together to try to, uh, to get there.”