Things are getting real interesting in the financial industry. Brokers continue to become advisors, big advisors continue to grow, the lines between content and commerce continue to blur. While a few really *get it*, I’m not sure everyone is seeing the transformation occurring in the industry. In this spirit, here are 5 things financial firms [...]
By Zack Miller
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February 22, 2011 – 7:45 am
In a move that takes the brokerage industry out of the 1980s (yeah, cool parachute pants), industry trade mag, Registered Rep announced a new push to aggregate some user-generated content on its flagship website, RegisteredRep.com.
I’m going to stop short and announce that this isn’t a direct threat to Seeking Alpha, the leading financial content aggregator. [...]
February 12, 2011 – 4:50 am
THE short-seller whose negative treatise against Netflix inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) prompted the company’s CEO to pen a controversial rebuttal in a blog post has covered his short position in the top-performing stock. Whitney Tilson of T2 Partners LLC disclosed in a letter (PDF 272KB) this week that his firm no longer had any position in [...]
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January 28, 2011 – 1:21 am
In this week’s podcast, we interview Mick Weinstein, head of content at Covestor, a new investment platform that allows investors to shop for investment advisor like shopping for Pez on eBay. Mick was previously editor-in-chief at Seeking Alpha.
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I’ve discussed Covestor and its do-it-yourself model at length both in my book, Tradestream, as [...]
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 [...]
January 16, 2011 – 9:15 pm
FINANCIAL blog aggregator Seeking Alpha, which reaches a global audience of 3.4 million, has launched a new program that will pay contributors for exclusive rights to their posts under a plan that it hopes will transform the investment research industry. In an email to contributors and an open letter posted on Seeking Alpha’s website, CEO [...]
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January 13, 2011 – 4:50 am
SAYING that institutional investors are increasingly looking to the open web for information, a Boston-based independent research firm plans to use its blog as its primary publishing and client management platform. Research 2.0, founded in 2005 by former Wall Street director of research Kris Tuttle, will provide much of its research through its blog while [...]
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December 20, 2010 – 5:47 pm
WHEN Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings personally responded to a short-seller’s treatise against his company in a Seeking Alpha blog post, he single-handedly upended investor relations convention. I have been tracking the reaction to Hastings’ post on a wide variety of media and most of the reaction thus far has been positive. The company’s [...]
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December 20, 2010 – 6:50 am
IN AN unusual move for a public company chief executive, Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings has responded via a blog post on the popular Seeking Alpha website to an investor who is shorting his company’s stock. Hastings, 50, was reacting to a lengthy post on Seeking Alpha by Whitney Tilson, founder and managing partner [...]
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