A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC. Facebook Readies IPO Filing The deal, seen as defining moment for the latest Web investing boom, could raise as much as $10 billion and value the social network between $75 billion to $100 billion. Wall Street [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the relationship between Sell Side Coverage and a company’s ability to generate commissions. The long and the short of the article was that the sell side is paid via commissions and therefore, the more trading v…
A HEDGE fund that plans to use Twitter sentiment to predict the stock market has seen so much demand from investors that it has been forced to delay its launch and change its corporate structure to accommodate more investors, according to one of its founders. The Derwent Absolute Return Fund Ltd, in the process of [...]
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In this week’s episode of Tradestreaming Radio, we interview Stephen Weiss, author of the newish book, Billion Dollar Mistake: Learning the Art of Investing Through the Missteps of Legendary Investors. You can also find a full transcript of the show here. Weiss had a long-spanning career on Wall Street (Oppenheimer, Salomon, Lehman) where he covered [...]
A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC. Global Hedge Fund Industry Assets Swell to $1.92 Trillion The industry is almost back to its peak size of the second quarter of 2008, when assets hit $1.93 trillion, right before the height of the financial [...]
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A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC. Focus: The insider trading dragnet Insider-Trading Arrests Point Prosecutors to Hedge Funds Expert-networking companies such as Mountain View, California-based Primary Global match investors with specialists who provide insight into specific markets. The criminal complaint unsealed yesterday [...]
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AT THE first CA Cheuvreux Investor Relations Summit in London last week, 170 IR officers from around Europe got to hear directly from research heads and fund managers about what they’re looking for from investor relations departments. The event also marked the release of Cheuvreux’s second annual survey (PDF 213KB) covering 370 institutional investors in [...]
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There is a famous Latin saying, “Cui bono?” that was used in Roman trials to help determine the underlying truth of a matter. The phrase translates into “To whose benefit?” and is meant to suggest the possibility of a hidden motive or that th…
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