Sponsor a Desk
Three tiers, published prices, no negotiation and no sales call. What follows is the full rate card, the seat policy, and — before any of that — the hard limits on what a placement can do. Those limits are the reason a listing here is worth anything, so they come first.
What money cannot buy
- —It cannot change your Research Authority Score. The score is assigned by the editorial desk and is not for sale at any tier.
- —It cannot change your description, category, asset class, niche, price or founding year. Placements affect visual prominence only.
- —It cannot remove or demote a competitor. No tier buys exclusivity against another publication.
- —It cannot buy a position the publisher has reserved for itself. See the ownership note below — the publisher’s own desk is not in the sponsor inventory.
- —It cannot buy an editorial mention inside a ranked shortlist. Those are ordered by score, and a placement never reorders them.
These limits are published in our terms and enforced by a build-time check on the sponsorship inventory, so they cannot drift silently.
Placement tiers
Self-serve checkout via Stripe. Your listing stays free either way — these tiers buy visibility within the directory, not inclusion in it.
Verified Newsletter
$49 / year
Establish official presence with a verified desk badge, dofollow indexing and a full organizational profile.
- Official Verified Newsletter checkmark badge
- Direct dofollow link to your publication and landing page
- Full profile with type, asset class, niche and pricing fields
- Priority indexing across category and region filters
- Quarterly metadata and pricing updates
Featured Placement
$79 / month
Command premier visual placement. Pinned in the top 3 spots of your primary category and region view.
- Everything included in Verified Newsletter
- Top 3 sticky position in your primary category
- Distinctive institutional highlight border
- Custom primary CTA button (e.g., "Subscribe Free")
- Inclusion in the monthly Allocator Research Brief
- Direct referral and click analytics
Category Sponsor
$249 / month
Exclusive category leadership. Capped at a maximum of 3 concurrent pinned publications per category on a strict first-come, first-served rotation (FIFO: the oldest spot cycles out when a new sponsor joins).
- Everything included in Featured Placement
- Exclusive 100% share-of-voice banner across the category
- Dedicated editorial profile feature
- Distribution to professional allocator and trader readership
- Direct institutional inquiry routing
Sponsor seats by category
Category sponsorship is capped at 3 concurrent seats per category on a strict first-come, first-served basis. If a fourth sponsor joins a full category, the longest-standing placement cycles out — you will be told your position and your rotation date before checkout.
Macro & Monetary Dynamics
3 of 3 seats open
Equity & Company Research
3 of 3 seats open
Publisher's own desk holds a reserved, non-purchasable row here (Quartz Sea Research).
Trading, Flow & Positioning
3 of 3 seats open
Credit, Restructuring & Distressed
3 of 3 seats open
Commodities & Energy
3 of 3 seats open
FX & Rates
3 of 3 seats open
Quant, Data & Systematic
3 of 3 seats open
Allocators, Wealth & Personal Finance
3 of 3 seats open
Digital Assets & Crypto
3 of 3 seats open
Inventory updated 2026-10-04 · 0 of 27 seats currently sold
Ownership disclosure
This directory is published by MGCB International, which also operates Quartz Sea Research — a publication indexed here, and the Research Authority lead within European research, equity and company research, and analysis-type publications. That relationship is disclosed here, on the editorial policy page, and on the pages where the lead position appears.
Structurally, the two never compete. Quartz Sea sits in a reserved editorial row that is explicitly labelled, is not for sale, and is excluded from sponsor inventory — so no sponsor ever buys a seat the publisher has already taken, and the publisher never takes a seat a sponsor has paid for. This is enforced by a build-time invariant, not by intention.
Frequently asked questions
Does paying change my position in the rankings?
No. A placement changes visual prominence only. It never changes a Research Authority Score, a description, a classification, or the order of a ranked shortlist. That limit is written into our terms and enforced at build time.
How many sponsor seats exist per category?
Category sponsorship is capped at 3 concurrent seats per category, on a first-come, first-served rotation. When a fourth sponsor joins a full category, the longest-standing placement cycles out. The publisher's own desk does not occupy one of these seats.
Does the publisher’s own publication compete with sponsors?
No, by construction. The publisher operates Quartz Sea Research, which is indexed here and holds the Research Authority lead within European research, equity and company research, and analysis-type publications. It sits in a reserved editorial position that is explicitly labelled, is not for sale, and is excluded from sponsor inventory — so a sponsor never buys a seat the publisher has already taken.
Is the free listing affected if I do not pay?
No. Every indexed publication keeps its full listing, its outbound link and its position in category, region and score ordering whether or not it buys anything. We also correct factual errors on request regardless of commercial relationship.