February 9, 2011 – 8:39 am
Michael Mauboussin, CIO at Legg Mason, is a thought leader and author of books like Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition and More than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places.
Maubossin shared his views on the financial/investment advisor’s practice management at the IMCA’s Consultant Conference on Tuesday. He took the approach of focusing [...]
January 17, 2011 – 7:33 am
So, the rumors were finally put to rest as next-generation financial site heavy, Seeking Alpha, announced today that they would begin paying contributors for their content. As an aggregator, Seeking Alpha relied upon a mutual understanding for years: in return for permission to host investment bloggers’ content, the financial site provided more eyeballs and visibility [...]
November 22, 2010 – 9:49 am
It’s not a far-fetched idea. The Nieman Journalism Lab is reporting the juggernaut content management platform’s first foray into curated content, FoodPress.
Powering over 15m blogs with their hosted toolsets and headed by a new content czar, Wordpress could easily maneuver its vertical content activities into a curated investment site, pointing to numerous top investment bloggers [...]
October 26, 2010 – 6:45 am
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For the fourth quarter in a row, the top economic bloggers polled by the Kaufmann Foundation have described and forecasted a deteriorating economic environment in the U.S.
Partial list of Kauffman economic bloggers
Some of the names surveyed by Kauffman included:
Robert [...]
October 11, 2010 – 8:53 am
From David Jackson, Seeking Alpha’s founder and CEO:
After eight months in development, I’m thrilled to officially launch Seeking Alpha’s Investing Applications today and tell you a bit about why we launched them. Investing Apps are professional-grade tools to research stocks, and manage, track and analyze your investments. These apps are [...]
October 3, 2010 – 8:37 am
Yahoo Finance, still the 800 lb gorilla in online finance, has a new video aggregation site here.
Now following similar moves in data and news and opinion (see providers here), Yahoo Finance has begun selectively aggregating financial video. This makes Yahoo Finance, in spite of all its shortcomings, just all the more valuable in the research [...]
September 20, 2010 – 6:46 am
Lots of interesting stuff going on in financial services. I recently had the opportunity to chat (email, really) with Carol Yuyi Zhou, Director of Marketing for Kalengo. Kalengo is really a hybrid of a lot of what’s interesting in today’s online investing environment: social, analytics, financial content curation, cross-platform, etc. It’s kind of a cross-breed [...]
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Also tagged analytics, broker, crowd sourcing, expert communities, financial content, industry news, interview, invest, kalengo, new rules, piggyback investing, portfolio, tradestream
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Just penned some thoughts about the recent news that Yahoo Finance is getting into blogging and curation over at my book’s website (migrating much of my writing over there — head over and sign up!).
Money quote:
This is a risky strategy. In essence, the financial portal is pitting itself opposite all its content partners — [...]
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Also tagged aggregation, crowsourcing, curation, financial content, forbes, investing, new rules, piggyback investing, seeking alpha, tradestream, yahoo finance
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