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? [...]
By New Rules of Investing
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, financial advisors, financial content, industry news, insider, investing, investment site, new products, new rules, reuters, tradestream, trading, video
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– by Neil Hershberg, Senior Vice President – Global Media, Business Wire It is the hidden paradox of the regulatory reform debate dominating today’s headlines. While improved disclosure and transparency are widely seen as the ‘silver bullets’ to remedy Wall Street’s worst abuses, the integrity of the disclosure process itself is under attack. And individual [...]
April 20, 2010 – 12:00 pm
Since our last update, there have been four significant XBRL developments: Transition of responsibility for maintaining the US GAAP Taxonomy SEC release of a new Previewer and Viewer engine Update to the EDGAR Filer Manual SEC Webinar focused on detailed tagging requirements. Taxonomy Maintenance Transition On February 5, 2010, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) [...]
By Phil Dennison, Senior Marketing Specialist, Business Wire
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Posted in Industry Blogs, Investor Relations
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Also tagged disclosure, EDGAR, FASB, Financial Accounting Foundation, GAAP, GAAP taxonomy, SEC, XBRL, XBRL Update
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“Today is the first day of the rest of your taxable year.” - Jeffrey Yablon, a Washington tax lawyer who has compiled an extensive and amusing collection of quotations on taxes and life I know, I know – we’d like to forget about taxes now that we’ve survived the annual runup to April 15. But this post-deadline [...]
Now is the time (if it wasn’t weeks ago) for investor relations people to get on top of the question: What impact will President Obama’s healthcare overhaul have on our companies? The ObamaCare question will be asked in first-quarter conference calls and one-on-one conversations, and companies ought to disclose the material impacts either before first-quarter [...]
March 15, 2010 – 12:29 pm
David Bianco, chief U.S. stock strategist at Bank America Merrill Lynch, suggests that the investors made far less in the past 50 years than the S&P 500 suggests, as quoted in Bloomberg.
While the S&P 500 returned an average of 9.5 percent annually for the 50-year period, the comparable figure after all the adjustments [ed. trading [...]
February 15, 2010 – 6:15 am
We’ve written for a while that for certain purposes, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a better mousetrap.
As Mutual Funds 2.0, ETFs have introduced:
new ways to implement investing ideas (eg. country exposure to Poland, Chile, etc.)
made existing ideas easier to trade (leveraged long and short funds, buy-write strategies)
provided continuous pricing (unlike Mutual Funds that price [...]
By Zack Miller
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged broker, etf, expert communities, fees, financial advisors, industry news, investing, investment site, kaching, lipper, mirrored accounts, mutual fund, mutual funds, new products, new rules, piggyback investing, trading, Wall Street Journal
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February 8, 2010 – 6:48 am
In the wake of the big commercial fest Super Bowl yesterday (wait, there was a game yesterday??), I thought it would be interesting to put together a team of the Web’s best financial analysts, talking heads, and pundits. An all star team of sorts for online finance.
Offense
Quarterback: The Big Picture, Barry Ritholtz. Barry’s the go-to [...]
February 7, 2010 – 9:08 am
As if we needed another study to spell this out, S&P published a recent study (.pdf) that undermines the hot money chasing performance in the mutual fund industry. The study shows that very few funds demonstrate persistence — the ability of asset managers to consistently achieve top-quartile or top-half performance.
The amazing take-away from the study:
Over [...]
