Author Sanford Bragg
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Geospatial Firm TellusLabs Bought By Agricultural Company
12/17/2018
Indigo Ag, a new-wave agricultural company seeking to improve crop yields sustainably, acquired geospatial analysis firm TellusLabs. Terms were not disclosed. Indigo Ag, founded in 2014 to substitute microbial techniques ...
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LinkedIn: Median Equity Research Analyst Compensation Remains Modest
12/14/2018
US equity research analysts received median bonuses of $33,000 in 2018 with a range from $5,000 to $145,000, based on statistics collected by LinkedIn. Total 2018 compensation for equity analysts ...
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Expert Network Aggregator Inex One Launches Pay-As-You-Go Expert Access
12/13/2018
Stockholm-based Inex One expanded its expert network aggregation capability by releasing a service which provides access to experts sourced from specialist expert networks without having to contract with the expert ...
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The UBS Evidence Lab Leviathan Awakes
12/13/2018
As a newly separate entity from UBS Research, UBS Evidence Lab is piloting a subscription platform for the sale of alternative data, focusing on traditional active investors rather than quantitative funds ...
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Alternative Data ESG Firm TruValue Labs Launches Research Reports
12/12/2018
TruValue Labs, which uses artificial intelligence techniques to collect environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data, launched research reports derived from its ESG platform designed to promote its quantitative metrics to ...
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Policy Researcher SGH Macro Launches Model Portfolio
12/11/2018
SGH Macro Advisors, a Greenwich CT-based macroeconomic policy research firm, recently launched a model portfolio to complement its core offerings. Model portfolios for macro research are unusual, unlike for stock ...
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Survey: FICC Research Takes a MiFID II Hit
12/11/2018
Nearly 70% of European asset managers have cut back their use of fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) research in the wake of MiFID II, according to a survey by ...
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RBC’s 2018 Equities Revenues Up 5%
12/10/2018
Royal Bank of Canada’s equities revenues grew 4.8% for its fiscal year ending October 31, 2018, bettering their post-crisis results but down one-fifth from their peak in 2015. Equity revenues ...
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European Conferences Down Nearly 40% in 2019
12/07/2018
The number of bank-sponsored conferences in Europe scheduled for 2019 has fallen by 37% compared with the prior year, according to an analysis by investor relations specialist Rose & Company. ...
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Accrete: Using AI to Generate Alternative Data
12/06/2018
Machine learning and natural language processing are creating new categories of alternative data, as exemplified by Accrete.AI which offers a service which identifies and ranks sources of M&A rumors including ...