ESG in a SIC Thesis: How to Treat Materiality as a Scored Input, Not a Checkbox (2026)
Since S13 the SIC rubric has scored ESG as a structural input. How to find what is material, route it into a valuation, size it, and avoid the…
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Posts tagged #Risk Articulation
5 dispatches from the SIC Editorial Desk .
When the Standard Valuation Toolkit Breaks: Analysing Banks, REITs, Biotech and Cyclicals for SIC
Margins, P/E and DCF assume a company that sells a product at a markup. Banks, REITs, biotech and deep cyclicals break that assumption. What to use instead in…
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The SIC Risk Section: What Would Have to Be True for Your Thesis to Lose
Risk articulation is one of four equally weighted SIC judging axes. How to turn a boilerplate risk list into five-field entries with markers, magnitudes and pre-set responses.
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Seven Behavioral Biases That Quietly Weaken a SIC Thesis (2026)
The biggest threat to a SIC thesis is often the analyst, not the market. Seven cognitive biases that weaken student reports, how judges spot them, and habits that…
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How to Write the “Defense” Half of a SIC Brief: Pre-empting the Skeptic (2026)
SIC's Senior engine is a research brief plus a defense. Learn to write it — falsifiable risks, pre-empted counter-arguments — and why its format is unpublished. Confirm officially.
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