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MIT Report Highlights FinTech Crowdsourcing
07/13/2016
A recent report from MIT explores crowdsourcing and other novel predictive techniques being applied by hedge funds and FinTech startups.
One example cited by the report is hedge fund Numerai which ...
Morgan Stanley Switches From S&P Stock Research to Morningstar
07/07/2016
Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Management unit will stop distributing Standard & Poor’s equity research to its brokers and online clients next month, replacing it with Morningstar’s stock research, according to an ...
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Liberum Capital Shows Top Buy Recommendation Performance For 3 Years Ending 3-31-16
04/21/2016
The top performing equity buy recommendations for the three year period ending March 31, 2016 came from London-based investment bank Liberum Capital, according to performance information collected by Investars, a ...
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ValuEngine Offers Money Management On Top Of Research
04/11/2016
Recently, Melbourne Florida-based quantitative research firm ValuEngine, formed a separate registered investment advisory firm called ValuEngine Capital Management to provide investment management services to retail clients based on ValuEngine’s time ...
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Banks Have Fewer Sell Recommendations But Larger Firms Show Discipline
03/29/2016
Investment banks provide seven buy recommendations for every sell recommendation on average, according to data from Investars, a performance measurement firm. In contrast, independent research firms average an even distribution ...
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Liberum Capital Shows Top Buy Recommendation Performance For 3 Years Ending 12-31-15
01/06/2016
The top performing equity buy recommendations for the three year period ending December 31, 2015 came from London-based investment bank Liberum Capital, according to performance information collected by Investars, a ...
US Regulators Go After Short Ideas Spoofs
11/06/2015
A Scottish man was indicted for securities fraud for spoofing short ideas researchers Muddy Waters and Citron Research to profit from stock declines. In joint actions, the US Department of Justice ...
Macquarie Quants Tackle Rugby
10/15/2015
The equity research quants at Macquarie Securities have adapted their stock valuation models to forecasting the Rugby World Cup. The back test has an 82.5% accuracy. Perhaps Macquarie should set ...
Research Crowdsourcing Firm StockViews Adds First Affiliate Partner
09/08/2015
London-based investment research crowdsourcing platform, StockViews, announced that it has added independent research and consulting firm, Forward View, as the first member of its StockView Affilate Network.
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When a ‘Buy’ Isn’t Really a ‘Buy’
08/26/2015
A witty opinion piece in the Financial Times tweaks equity stock recommendations, outlining various reasons a ‘buy’ recommendation may not truly be a ‘buy’.
Dan Davies, a former Credit Suisse analyst ...