Browsing: Social Media
New Idea-Sharing Platform Targets Retail
01/29/2014
Interactive Buyside LLC, is a recent platform for buy side analysts to share their research ideas with the goal of attracting new investors. Although Interactive Buyside has some distance to ...
2013 in Review
12/30/2013
Market Environment
After a strong first quarter, commissions frustratingly continued their five year decline despite a robust stock market. One positive for equity research (and a negative for macro research) was ...
Did Kinder Morgan Prove Hedgeye Wrong?
10/23/2013
Kevin Kaiser, the twenty-something energy analyst at Hedgeye Risk Management, a Connecticut-based independent research provider, has been on Kinder Morgan’s case since early September when he tweeted that Kinder Morgan ...
Survey: Compliance Vigilance Remains High
10/21/2013
A recent survey of investment advisers showed that insider trading continues to be a hot button compliance issue, along with advertising/marketing, social media and political contributions/pay to play.
The Investment Adviser ...
Tweeting the Markets
09/18/2013
Hedgeye Risk Management, an independent research firm, moved markets by releasing a twitter post previewing a forthcoming negative report on Kinder Morgan. The incident confirms the growing importance of social ...
Social Media Blessed by SEC for Corporate Communications
04/03/2013
New York, NY – Earlier this week, the SEC cleared Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, of violating Reg FD when he posted a market moving piece of corporate news on his ...
Research Profile: Online Consumer Sentiment Data Used to Generate Alpha
04/01/2013
New York, NY – Can the actions and sentiment of online consumers be captured and synthesized into a meaningful signal for individual equity prices? One unique social media data and ...
Catfishing Comes to the Stock Markets
02/25/2013
New York, NY – When are Manti Te’o and stock market investors alike? When they are both the victims of scams using social media to perpetrate lies. Unfortunately, in the ...
Social Media & Research: Opportunities and Risks
12/17/2012
The FBI is reportedly monitoring Twitter and Facebook for insider trading violations. The FBI views social media as a potential breeding ground for securities fraud. At the same time, social ...
Filtering Twitter
04/18/2012
FirstRain, a search-based research firm, has added Twitter to its sources of business intelligence. The move reflects Twitter’s increasing business content, which is still only a very small fraction of ...