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Mopping Up the Expert Network Cases
05/03/2011
New York – Now that the Rajaratnam trial has gone to jury deliberation, prosecutors are turning their attention to other outstanding insider trading cases. Of the fourteen individuals charged in ...
Dirks v. SEC
04/26/2011
New York – The current definitions of insider trading owe much to a U.S. Supreme Court decision which capped a battle between Raymond L. Dirks and the Securities and Exchange ...
Dire Forecasts
04/12/2011
New York – A pending study has labeled the fund management as ‘overpaid’ and destroying $1.3 trillion in value each year. Sell-side research is identified as contributing to the value ...
DeGraaf’s New Research Firm Gets a Pulse
04/04/2011
New York, NY – Less than two months ago, Jeff DeGraaf, Institutional Investor’s top ranked technical analyst for the past six years, left ISI to open his own hedge fund ...
CSA Use Grows on Buy-Side
03/14/2011
New York, NY – According to a report recently published by Boston-based consulting firm the Tabb Group, three-quarters of all US buy-side firms currently use commission sharing agreements. In addition, ...
Instinet adds Research Partner in the Healthcare Sector
02/24/2011
Instinet, an agency brokerage firm, announced its partnership with Favus Institutional Research, an independent research provider focused on the healthcare sector. As a member of Instinet’s research platform, Favus Institutional ...
Lord Myners Bundles With Autonomous
02/22/2011
New York – Paul Myners, author of the Myners report which spurred the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) to require greater commission transparency, joined London-based Autonomous Research LLP as chairman ...
How Much Longer?
02/15/2011
New York – The insider trading investigation entered a new phase in February as the focus shifted from suppliers of inside information, mainly centered on expert network Primary Global Research ...
Ticonderoga Said to Buy Soleil
02/11/2011
New York – Bloomberg Businessweek reports today that Ticonderoga Securities LLC, the New York-based broker-dealer started in 2009, has reached a preliminary agreement to buy independent research firm Soleil Securities ...
Weeden out the Competition
01/26/2011
New York – Throughout this year we have seen a number of brokers expand their research offerings to entice more trade volume or enhance the vote. Among the success stories ...