In the belly of the whale
If you think the typical buy-side analyst is a generalist who covers hundreds of companies in dozens of industry sectors and gets...
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Investor perspectives Archive
Behind enemy lines
When Eliot Spitzer settled with Merrill Lynch in late May, the core issue was whether analysts had been truthful and fair in their...
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Grassroots IR after the bubble
Sunday, March 10 was the second anniversary of the Nasdaq Stock Market's all-time peak. With the key US technology index still...
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The bull market
Most sell-side analysts are either shameless liars or shamefully incompetent. That would be the opinion of pretty much any...
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Index roundtable
Recent trends in the index business are changing the way IROs look at these market measures. First, there has been a major boom in...
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Latin buy-out
Telefonica's tender offer for three Latin American telecom firms sent the Latin markets into a flurry of activity in late winter...
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Super sleuths
Trying to find attractive investment opportunities in today's market environment is no small feat. Indeed, as the Dow flirts with...
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All eyes on value
Poorly-performing companies take heed: the world's biggest shareholders – institutional investors – are increasingly talking among...
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Walls come tumbling down
When a Wall Street analyst puts a buy recommendation on a company, he means 'it's okay to be in the passive, low-risk, low-payoff...
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Atlantic analytics
More than ten years ago, when the UK's Big Bang erupted, the heavyweight US investment houses tried to muscle their way onto the...
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