October 4, 2010 – 10:00 am
I’ve been saying that it was a matter of time before someone well-situated was going to go after Gerson Lehrman, the 80000 lb gorilla of expert investment networks. And with an announcement today, it looks like media giant, Bloomberg is taking that step.
Here’s what a Bloomberg spokesperson had to say about the project:
We want Ph.D. [...]
We’ve spoken a lot about piggyback investing (mimicking the moves of top fund managers) and crowdsourcing ideas (using crowd sentiment to generate trading ideas) as two ‘new ways’ investors can devise profitable strategies. The Internet is producing tons of information – the tradestream – that investors can plug into to get at this type of [...]
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February 22, 2010 – 6:05 am
What follows is the entire version of my recent post on Mashable, “The Maturation of Social Media ROI“
Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence. While some introduced alternative philosophies for measuring the nuances tied to social media, others wondered aloud whether ROI simply wasn’t necessary [...]
February 4, 2010 – 8:30 am
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 [...]
December 3, 2009 – 4:53 am
As reported yesterday, Seeking Alpha, the largest aggregator of financial content from blogs, asset managers and investment newsletters, raised another round of funding yesterday. The raise of $7 million represents a B round financing from existing investors, Accel and Benchmark, along with new investor DAG.
There’s been speculation about what Seeking Alpha’s going to do with [...]
September 22, 2009 – 8:42 am
As investors, we sometimes get too fixed on trying to find financial metrics that provide some level of predictability to stock price movement. A recent study shows that low price/sales and price/earnings ratios aren’t the only thing we should be looking at.
The BrandZ portfolio, developed by leading public relations firm, WPP’s Millward Brown Optimor, has [...]
August 26, 2009 – 6:29 am
I’ve been thinking a lot about collaborative research techniques, strategy, structure, etc. over the past couple of weeks. I’ve written about Wikinvest’s wiki structure previously and generally like what they’re up to.
But look a little further, and there’s been little written, discussed, analyzed about the future of collaborative research when so much has been written [...]
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August 25, 2009 – 6:23 am
A new site, fabeetle.com, launched yesterday amid some fanfare in the brokerage community with a beta launch soliciting participating amongst advisers. fabeetle attempts to tackle a huge problem in the industry: matching financial advisers (FAs) with potential clients looking for the right ones. While it’s becoming infinitely easier to buy products over the Internet, a [...]
Financial institutions filed nearly 13% more reports of fraud compared with 2007 (The Economist)
Value stock screen for potential activist targets (The Manual of Ideas)
Comparison of All-World ETFs (ETF Trends)
I think this recession (and sluggish recovery) will continue to make history, and that most of these forecasts are actually too optimistic (Calculated Risk)
On Covestor’s push into [...]
