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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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As reported yesterday, Seeking Alpha, the largest aggregator of financial content from blogs, asset managers and investment newsletters, raised another round of funding yesterday. The raise of $7 million represents a B round financing from existing investors, Accel and Benchmark, along with new investor DAG. There’s been speculation about what Seeking Alpha’s going to do [...]
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Don Narcisse was the Warren Buffett of Canadian Football. His performance numbers over a long career speak for themselves. A small receiver (5’9″), Narcisse began his career in the CFL with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1987 after being cut from the St Louis Cardinals. The rest was history. Here are some of his stats after [...]
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As investors, we sometimes get too fixed on trying to find financial metrics that provide some level of predictability to stock price movement. A recent study shows that low price/sales and price/earnings ratios aren’t the only thing we should be looking at. The BrandZ portfolio, developed by leading public relations firm, WPP’s Millward Brown Optimor, [...]
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A new site, fabeetle.com, launched yesterday amid some fanfare in the brokerage community with a beta launch soliciting participating amongst advisers. fabeetle attempts to tackle a huge problem in the industry: matching financial advisers (FAs) with potential clients looking for the right ones. While it’s becoming infinitely easier to buy products over the Internet, a [...]
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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) [...]
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