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WSJ on Insider Trading (video)

by Zack Miller on November 28, 2010

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]

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Bloomberg shows some man-dog love to Gerson Lehrman

by Zack Miller on October 4, 2010

I’ve been saying that it was a matter of time before someone well-situated was going to go after Gerson Lehrman, the 80000 lb gorilla of expert investment networks. And with an announcement today, it looks like media giant, Bloomberg is taking that step. Here’s what a Bloomberg spokesperson had to say about the project: We [...]

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Covestor integrates Twitter notifications into platform

by Zack Miller on August 17, 2008

Covestor, a leading investing expert community, recently announced a new feature enabling Twitter integration into its trading platform.  According to the company, “When you execute a trade with your broker you can now keep your followers on Twitter up to date, per the other members following you on Covestor.” Because Covestor and other expert communities [...]

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Power of expert communities

by Zack Miller on July 22, 2008

I’ve written before about expert communities like Vestopia and Covestor (as well as here) and their impact on investment decisions.  By creating an open community and applying performance and other measurements to the community, spectators and participants in the community can learn from so-called experts within the community.  Experts win with some type of rewards [...]

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