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So, the rumors were finally put to rest as next-generation financial site heavy, Seeking Alpha, announced today that they would begin paying contributors for their content. As an aggregator, Seeking Alpha relied upon a mutual understanding for years: in return for permission to host investment bloggers’ content, the financial site provided more eyeballs and visibility [...]
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Kapitall, an innovative investing platform that combines a gaming interface, announced a significant fund raise yesterday tallying over $7m. Kapitall’s Series A lead investors include Bendigo Partners, a fintech private equity firm started by former E*Trade President and COO Jarrett Lilien, media investor Strauss Zelnick, partner in ZelnickMedia Corp., and Stamford, CT based ES & [...]
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A lot of work is going into developing the next generation of financial powerhouses. Where traditional brokers/banks controlled the locus of power in the investing game, it’s not clear exactly who is going to take their place as their assets and influence have waned. Here are a couple of ways that firms are going at [...]
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It’s not a far-fetched idea. The Nieman Journalism Lab is reporting the juggernaut content management platform’s first foray into curated content, FoodPress. Powering over 15m blogs with their hosted toolsets and headed by a new content czar, WordPress could easily maneuver its vertical content activities into a curated investment site, pointing to numerous top investment [...]
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Over on Tradestreaming, I just posted one of the strategies from my book. Specifically, research points to an interesting, profitable anomaly in the trades made by corporate insiders. Building a strategy by mimicking a subset of some of these moves has proven significantly outperform the markets. Not all insider trades are created equal and investors [...]
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When was the last time you looked at a financial product (and no, you can’t include CDS or RMBS in this question) and were wowed. It’s been awhile for me (I don’t get out much). Well, it got me thinking. Earlier this week I went into a restroom and was surprised to find — not [...]
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First off, sorry I’ve been so quiet as of late. It’s not for lack of ideas — I’m just putting the finishing touches on a book I have coming out in June. I’ll write more about that later but needless to say, I vastly underestimated the amount of time and energy that was required in [...]
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