Browsing: research providers
Goldman Invests in JL McGregor
07/11/2008
NY—JL McGregor & Co., a Bejing-based industry consulting firm, announced today that Goldman Sachs made a minority investment in the firm which various sources reported as $7 million. ...
Those That Can, Invest
07/08/2008
New York—Last week we profiled a money manager who has become a research provider, now we have a researcher going the other way—Marty Fridson of FridsonVision LLC has set up ...
From TOPs to Top Down
07/01/2008
New York—The parent of GaveKal Research, a prominent Asia-based provider of macro research, has partnered with UK hedge fund manager Marshall Wace to create a new asset management ...
M&A Roundup
06/08/2008
New York—Despite turmoil in financial markets, M&A transactions in investment research firms during the first half of 2008 are on a pace to match or exceed the number of transactions ...
Belated Justice
05/27/2008
New York—The Columbia Journalism Review has been slamming 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl for the program’s coverage of Biovail’s accusations of collusion between Gradient Analytics and hedge funds to produce ...
XBRL Arrives (Finally)
05/20/2008
New York–The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a rule proposal last week that will mandate interactive data filings of public companies’ SEC reports, beginning this year for large cap ...
Gridstone Raises Capital
05/14/2008
New York—Gridstone Research, a San Mateo based provider of data and quantitative tools, raised $10 million in a Series B round to support expansion and marketing of its product that ...
Alternative Growth
04/22/2008
New York—New and innovative approaches to research represent the fastest growing segments of alternative research, as we continue our examination of the formation rates of alternative research providers (ARPs). ...
Waiting For Consolidation
04/21/2008
New York—As Integrity’s internal database of research providers recently topped 1700 (1735 to be exact), where is the consolidation in research providers we keep predicting? Asked to picture the alternative ...
The Taxman Cometh
04/15/2008
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven’t been taxed before. –Art Buchwald
New York—The search for ...