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By John Schroy, on September 1st, 2009 | Leave a comment
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The complexity of modern capital markets and the flood of relevant information on the Internet have made the security analyst’s job more difficult.

Traditional commercial sources of investment data no longer adequately cover the market.

Collaborative research techniques offer competitive advantage to forward-looking institutions.

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