Browsing: alternative research
Market Market Research
09/09/2008
Ever since Regulation Fair Disclosure was implemented in 2000 in the U.S., there has been a growing impetus for investors to do more primary research. Although the catalyst was in ...
Chasing Rumors
08/26/2008
New York – Daniel Loeb, who runs New York-based Third Point Management with the $5.6 billion in hedge fund assets under management, reported a significant increase in SEC activity in ...
What Guidance on Guidance?
08/24/2008
New York – The Investorside Research Association, the U.S. trade association for independent research, is formulating its position on the SEC’s recently proposed soft dollar disclosure guidance to mutual fund ...
Adding Sales Horsepower
08/18/2008
New York – Soleil Securities Group, an aggregator and distributor of equity research, announced that it has hired a new head of institutional sales. The announcement follows other ...
Growth Research
08/17/2008
New York – Value vs. growth is an overused, and often artificial, dichotomy. Yet there are genuine distinctions in how growth oriented investors utilize research when compared to ...
The Gloom Boom
08/13/2008
New York-Bear markets are a stressful time for most research providers as commissions decline and budgets are cut. However, there are a few types of research that thrive ...
Passing The Buck
07/31/2008
New York—Yesterday the SEC issued draft guidance for directors of registered 40 Act funds relating to ‘soft dollar’ practices. In the ‘sunshine’ meeting in which the commissioners discussed the proposed ...
Value Research
07/29/2008
New York—When this bear market ends (this fall? next spring?) there will be plenty of cheap stocks, a great environment for value oriented asset managers (assuming all their investors haven’t ...
Monitor110 Flatlines
07/22/2008
New York—Monitor110, a search based research firm based in Silicon Alley, has shut down after five years of development. The firm had begun a new investment round in ...
My Broker Made Me Do It…
07/13/2008
New York—A recent survey of compliance officers at SEC-registered investment advisors shows continuing confusion about the topic of soft dollars. Two years have passed since the SEC clarified ...