Randy Frederick is director of trading and derivatives at the Schwab Center for Financial Research.
Hedge funds account for 58% of the trading in these derivatives, says Greenwich Associates, a financial research firm.
Investment firms love to trumpet the importance of their financial research, and the resources they devote to it.
Ibbotson later founded an eponymous financial research boutique famous for studies that showed how stocks outperform bonds over the long run.
The financial research provider has made the cut for 15 straight years.
He is director of retirement research services at Financial Research, which surveys mutual fund trends and, like John Hancock, is based in Boston.
It took over a year to find a candidate to head up the new Office of Financial Research, created by the Dodd-Frank bill.
Parkway's share price is up about 86% since then, making it the top-performing U.S.-listed REIT over that period, according to financial research company FactSet.
Morgan Stanley's proprietary funds have the biggest market share among the five largest broking firms, according to Financial Research Corp, a Boston research firm.
Before enacting the law, says Thomas McCool , head of financial research at the General Accounting Office, Congress did not calculate what it would cost to comply.
David Black, a banking analyst at financial research group Defaqto, says that customers do not switch bank accounts like utility providers because "it is basically more of an effort".
Scott Gehlbach and Konstantin Sonin, of the Centre for Economic and Financial Research in Moscow, argue that three factors have influenced businessmen to go into politics in post-Soviet countries.
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David Blanchett, head of retirement research for financial research firm Morningstar, says it makes sense for women, married couples and those with good health to wait longer for a bigger paycheck.
By Friday SIFMA should have a recommendation for the Office of Financial Research (OFR) on who should be in charge of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI), the first step toward improving global regulation.
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His main job at the outset will be helping the Treasury to build an office of financial research, created by the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law to mine market data for threats to financial stability.
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Despite all the proposals to make accounting more transparent, pro forma obfuscations are as bad as ever--and cover a shocking number of public companies, according to data compiled by Multex (nasdaq: MLTX - news - people ), a New York financial research company.
Still, Jason Hsu, chief investment officer of Research Affiliates, a financial-research firm in Newport Beach, Calif.
Through research efforts with CFSI as well as the Citi IPA Financial Capability Research Fund, in partnership with Innovations for Poverty Action, among others, we are seeing models of success and effectiveness.
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"There's been an increase in hot-money inflows, but the PBOC may find it difficult to let the yuan rise too fast or tighten monetary conditions too dramatically because the economic recovery remains slower than expected, " said Zhu Chaoping, head of research at ChinaScope Financial, a research and data firm partly owned by Moody's Corp.
"The government is supportive of investment in the railway sector because it remains a key growth driver for the economy, especially at a time when exports are faced with difficulties and it takes time for consumption to pick up, " said Zhu Chaoping, head of research at ChinaScope Financial, a research and data firm partly owned by Moody's Corp.
Since 1999, he has served as president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center.
But short of such a radical scenario, pricing reform would not kill off innovation, according to Sanford Bernstein, a financial-research firm.
Jason Goepfert of Sentimentrader.com, a financial market research service in Blaine, Minn.
Larry Tabb, founder of the financial technology research firm, TABB Group, has in the past made two key points related to high-frequency trading.
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Journal of Financial Services Research found that market discipline alone was not consistently adequate to ensure the ratings agencies acted responsibly and minimized their errors.
His former reporters ended up in top newsroom and financial-research positions.
"The bond-market investigation is not likely to have a negative impact on companies' ability to raise funds in the short term, but some high-risk borrowers, such as local-government financing vehicles, could see their borrowing costs go up, " said Zhu Chaoping, head of research at ChinaScope Financial, a Hong Kong research and data firm.
According to Thomson Financial, a research firm, independent boutiques advised on 55% of the 20 biggest mergers announced last year.
Despite everything that has happened, Wall Street analysts still appear to be overly optimistic about the financial prospects for Research In Motion.
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In March Dalbar, a financial services market research firm based in Boston, released a study of equity fund performance over the 20 years through last December.
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