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Sell-side analysts keep on cutting estimates
It's hardly surprising that sell-side analysts are chopping their estimates for fourth quarter bank earning, as estimate jockeying among analysts is common as a quarter winds to a close. In the current environment, some analysts seem to have figured out that they can draw more attention if they cu
Analysts pay the price for sell recommendations
The lack of sell recommendations from sell-side analysts has long been an issue. Many use the paltry number of such recommendations as an example of the sorry state of sell-side research. But the dynamics involved with issuing such bold calls are under-appreciated.
The fact is that the persona
Goldman Sachs analyst prods Pfizer to break itself up
Did the golden era of sell-side analysts end with the dotcom bust? A lot of people thinks so, with good reason. Once you took the research people--supposedly independent--off of the deal making team and you set up all of those global settlement-required firewalls, it seemed like the business model
Sell-side analysts vs. hedge funds
Hedge funds have long held a jaded view of sell-side stock analysts, portraying their analyses as plain Jane and not alpha-generating. But is that a justifiable view? According to a recent academic study, they may be onto something.
Professors at Texas A&M and Ohio State universities have
Sell-side research tops buys-side
We noted recently that bulge-bracket firm research has lost some market share, as of late . But the news isn't all bad--at least when it comes to scoring sell-side research against buy-side research.
A recent study from Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina has found
Buyside on the rise, really?
There's been lots of talk about how the recent cataclysm has dealt the sellside a blow, to the benefit of the buyside. That's an easy way to look at the situation, and that's how it's outlined in a piece from the Financial Times . At first glance, it does seem like the traditional sellside-
