September 7, 2010 – 12:42 pm
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…
August 20, 2010 – 1:03 pm
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OK, this is not my usual earnest, well-reasoned post. Just so you’re forewarned: Here’s a bit of summer fluff. And this may be in bad taste, or even sexist. Sex appeal isn’t an aspect of investor relations I ever considered, well, an aspect of investor relations. I’ve always thought of IR professionals as a cross [...]
As the Jewish holiday of Passover is just around the corner, I wanted to use this space to give thanks to those bloggers who have been providing their readers with bongo profits so far 2009-2010.
FYI: I don’t hold any of these picks (unfortunately), nor should this be construed as a recommendation. Learn from these guys [...]
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 [...]
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The Wall Street Journal writes about how hedge funds and proprietary traders are working to automate trading based on social media information and sentiment.
Some traders use message boards, StockTwits and Google Insights to “get a handle on the buzz for stocks they are trading,” says the report. Meanwhile, StreamBase Systems Inc. provides tools to trade [...]
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February 16, 2010 – 7:15 am
To its credit, the financial industry has been playing around with different pricing structures — and mostly, for good reasons.
4 Ways Financial Advisors Get Paid
To understand where we are in history, here’s a short overview of how financial pros get paid:
1. Brokerage: This transactional model meant brokers got paid when they bought or sold something [...]
February 4, 2010 – 6:35 am
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 [...]
Because it has broader appeal, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about the demand side of financial social media. Investors can use tools like following their favorite investors portfolio moves on Covestor or crowdsource ideas on Piqqem or use AlphaClone to create the same portfolio Warren Buffett has.
There are other great tools, [...]
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Occasionally, while doing research on the web for something I’m working on, I will run across something that I didn’t know about, pause, and think, “Huh, I wonder if I’m the only one who hasn’t known about this until now?” Such was the c…
