Archives for December, 2009

Information and Regulation FD

This is the first of what will be many posts on basic infor­ma­tion gath­er­ing. Gath­er­ing infor­ma­tion is the foun­da­tion of every­thing that a good sell-side ana­lyst does. We’ll cover lots of pieces but with­out con­tin­ual, effec­tive infor­ma­tion gath­er­ing there is no “flow” which is an impor­tant part of being good on the sell-side. The Internet […]

The Return of Research Driven Capital Markets?

With the return of the IPO mar­ket the dis­cus­sion of research and bank­ing has started to come up again. For those who were not around for the last one there were a num­ber of research-oriented invest­ment banks like Ham­brecht & Quist, Robert­son Stephens, Alex Brown and Sound­View Tech­nol­ogy Group that led most of the emerging […]

Options

Stock options are cov­ered as part of the train­ing and qual­i­fi­ca­tion process for equity ana­lysts but most of the time they are ignored or unused which is a shame. Part of the rea­son is that many peo­ple just don’t feel com­fort­able with options even after they are explained clearly. We know really smart peo­ple who […]