ACCOUNTING professors at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan recently published a study with a rather startling finding — using social media like Twitter can help companies overcome a lack of media and sell-side analyst coverage and improve liquidity for their stock. The study, which we reported in June, has received [...]
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A NEW survey sheds light on the growing independent investment advisor business in the United States and finds that these advisors have little interest in small-cap stocks and prefer large-cap international equities, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and la…
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 [...]
WHEN Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) accidentally posted earnings information on the web prior to their official announcement last week, it was a little like seeing a poster child for online disclosure fall from grace.
None of the usual crop of online disclos…
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 [...]
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, [...]
If you elect to hold yourself out as a fiduciary, do you have to justify the use Why of mutual funds over index ETFs, which many point to as having a higher likelihood of outperforming a majority of funds net of fees and expenses? (Advice America)
If brokers are fiduciaries but can continue to be compensated on commissions, [...]
