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Reuters Insider: good for financial content but not sure about investors

VOD for investors
Thomson Reuters unveiled its Reuters Insider product today. Geared towards clients of investment terminals, Insider is essentially an aggregator of video content, sucking in both Reuters proprietary content and that from outside partners.  It’s going to be like a professional version of Seeking Alpha — but with video, not text.
Trader You Tube?  [...]

Rock star hedge funds more like easy listening

Piggyback investing has made it so easy for investors to mimic the moves of the best and brightest — and most successful — asset managers.  The hardest part is figuring out whose portfolio moves to clone.

Today’s Bloomberg deals with the issue of super star, celebrity fund managers and a recent study into their performance.  It [...]

Investment newsletters REALLY bearish — time to buy?

Wow! Expectations that U.S. stocks will drop at least 10% has risen to the highest levels since April 1984.
In a recent survey of investment newsletters by Investors Intelligence, Bloomberg reports that:

The following are results from Investors Intelligence’s
analysis of investment newsletters for Jan. 27 through
yesterday. The company determines the proportion of writers who
are bullish and bearish [...]

Bloomberg beefing up reflects good things for financial industry

I’ve written about previously (here and here) about Bloomberg’s expansion and eventual dominance of financial media from news to data and consumer.  The WSJ reports today that indeed, Bloomberg is forecasting a respectable 10% growth rate for 2010 and plans to add an additional 1300 employees.
The revenue gains would come largely from a projected increase [...]

Bloomberg finds piggybacking analysts sucks

John Dorfman, investor and Bloomberg columnist, has been following the 4 most popular and hated stocks among Wall Street analysts for the past 11 years.
According to Dorfman’s research:
For 11 of the past 12 years, I have studied the performance of analysts’ four favorite stocks, and the fate of the four they most scorned…Their favorites, on [...]

Dow Jones reorganizes, feeling Bloomberg’s man heat

I believe the Dow Jones mouthpiece when they say that the executive changes announced yesterday weren’t motivated by cost cutting.  Dow Jones chief, Les Hinton was quoted as saying:
This structure will provide the focus to make us faster and better than our rivals at identifying and meeting customer needs.  This isn’t about personalities, and it’s [...]

10 predictions in online finance for 2010

I’ve been thinking about what the future has in store for investors and I’d like to use this post to help clarify my thinking.   Essentially, I’d like to hone in on what 2010 portends for online finance.  I’m looking for some broader trends, as well as some company-specific prognostication.

AOL’s ascension, Yahoo Finance’s continued domination, Google [...]

With BusinessWeek, Bloomberg takes aim at Dow Jones

Everyone’s out reporting that Bloomberg, after being rumored as a suitor to pick up trouble biz mag, BusinessWeek, actually closed the deal for a rumored $5 million, an assumption of debt that amounts to over $30 million and a burn-rate of over $800,000/week.
Couple of salient points here:

Integration issues: Bloomberg has grown with a “build, not [...]

Can Bloomberg save the newspaper industry?

We’re not talking about Mayor Bloomberg here, but rather the mutibillion dollar financial media empire he founded.  While there are a lot of alternatives for traders these days, including CapitalIQ and Reuters, most traders still use the ubiquitous Bloomberg terminal as the interface between trading and research.
For the unacquainted, Bloomberg terminals are the defacto research [...]