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The Bloomberg juggernaut continues to impress. Not satisfied with more static, unidirectional programs on Bloomberg Radio and TV, Bloomberg is layering in more experiential type content. Accompanying Bloomberg Surveillance, a popular radio program hosted by Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt, is a new program called Inside Surveillance. For listeners and those interested in the show [...]
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Something few people know about me: One of my first jobs upon graduating from college was as an analyst for Heidrick and Struggles, one of the premier executive search firms. As a young, intellectually hungry econ grad, I did get a chance to work with some of the best (and worst) Fortune 500 companies to [...]
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VOD for investors Thomson Reuters unveiled its Reuters Insider product today. Geared towards clients of investment terminals, Insider is essentially an aggregator of video content, sucking in both Reuters proprietary content and that from outside partners. It’s going to be like a professional version of Seeking Alpha — but with video, not text. Trader You [...]
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Piggyback investing has made it so easy for investors to mimic the moves of the best and brightest — and most successful — asset managers. The hardest part is figuring out whose portfolio moves to clone. Today’s Bloomberg deals with the issue of super star, celebrity fund managers and a recent study into their performance. [...]
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I’ve written about previously (here and here) about Bloomberg’s expansion and eventual dominance of financial media from news to data and consumer. The WSJ reports today that indeed, Bloomberg is forecasting a respectable 10% growth rate for 2010 and plans to add an additional 1300 employees. The revenue gains would come largely from a projected [...]
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John Dorfman, investor and Bloomberg columnist, has been following the 4 most popular and hated stocks among Wall Street analysts for the past 11 years. According to Dorfman’s research: For 11 of the past 12 years, I have studied the performance of analysts’ four favorite stocks, and the fate of the four they most scorned…Their [...]
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I believe the Dow Jones mouthpiece when they say that the executive changes announced yesterday weren’t motivated by cost cutting. Dow Jones chief, Les Hinton was quoted as saying: This structure will provide the focus to make us faster and better than our rivals at identifying and meeting customer needs. This isn’t about personalities, and [...]
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