The company that produced this is an Investment Bank. Clients would not be charged explicitly for the research - it would be part of their 'news feed' from the

The company that produced this is an Investment Bank. Clients would not be charged explicitly for the research - it would be part of their 'news feed' from the bank (but to receive that feed, you'd have to give the appearance of being a client worth talking to). It has all the appearance of being something a bank's research people might throw together to show that they had a lighter side (during quiet summer months). Most of the research they've pulled together comes from universities, though.