Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on May 7th, 2009 |

The Crash of 2008 led to questions concerning the scope and quality of institutional investment research. The flood of open source investment data on the Internet presents opportunities to researchers.
There are new ways to manage institutional research, including separation of fact-gathering from data analysis, out-sourcing, student-sourcing, and home-sourcing, financial taxonomy, and semantic wikis.
Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on May 5th, 2009 |

Current publishers of financial statistics, like Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s, only deal with a tiny fraction of the useful data now freely available on the Internet. This article traces the historical development of 20th century financial publishers and suggests new sources and techniques available to Post Modern Security Analysts in the 21st century.
Semantic wikis, collaborative research, Capital Market Taxonomy, and free data collecting tools like Zotero are discussed.
Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on April 29th, 2009 |

Post Modern Securities Analysis deals with methods of collaborative research that are designed to deal with the tsunami of free, open source investment information now available, principally on the Internet.
The range of information relevant to capital markets is so vast that specialized technology is required to process data and organize collaboration with efficiency.
Capital Market Taxonomy and the use of semantic wikis are discussed in this article.
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