Tag Archives: wsj

Online brokerage no threat to advisors. Yeah, and I’m a meat-eating rabbit

Has Meir Statman gone off his meds? Does the author of What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions have no clue what investors really want? In a Dow Jones webinar of recent survey results, What Motivates Affluent Investors, Statman tried to make sense of the following data: Affluent [...]

WSJ on Insider Trading (video)

Allan Murray runs a good interview with Joel Cohen, a former federal prosecutor and insider trading expert.

Good points about duty, hedge funds, insider investing and the gray areas surrounding implicit duties for confidentiality.
[ht: Finance Professor]

The Atlantic on WSJ iPad app: It’s working

Interesting analysis on The Atlantic today regarding the WSJ’s paid content experiment on the iPad.
Let’s remember (from the article):

Apple sold about 500,000 iPad units in its first week
3200 WSJ iPad apps sold so far at $17.29/mo (or bundled together with other editions)
30,000 current WSJ subs trialing a free version of the app — so room for [...]

Traditional PR Meets PR 2.0

Media is changing and we have to change with the times. As we grow and embrace what social media has to offer for our brands and consumers, we learn that traditional PR and social media complement one another to build stronger relationships and communities. I often tell my clients that you don’t have to abandon what’s working in the traditional realm to engage in social communities. But, rather, you can take a hybrid approach and capture the best of both worlds.

More hedge funds trading the buzz

With the explosion of content on the Internet, particularly in real-time social media, investors are beginning to get access to tools to trade sentiment.  Where old-school investors knew — and profited — from buying on the rumor and selling on the news — the participative aspect of social media is changing the ways news/rumors/sentiment is [...]