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Subject: Standard & Poor’s

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is a division of McGraw-Hill that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds. It is well known for the stock market indexes, the US-based S&P 500, the Australian S&P/ASX 200, the Canadian S&P/TSX, the Italian S&P/MIB and India’s S&P CNX Nifty. (Wikipedia Feb 2010)

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Collaborative research

We evaluate a pearl by comparing it to others ...

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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The economics of security analysis

A flood of complex information ...

Total salaries of securities analysts working for financial institutions in 2006 amounted to only 1/100 of one percent of the value of outstanding corporate equities, domestic and foreign corporate bonds, and municipal bonds in the US market.

The exceeding complexity of modern capital markets, combined with too little being spent on investment analysis, has put the savings of millions of Americans at risk.

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Moving beyond Graham & Dodd

A security analyst is like a detective.

Security Analysis is the study of facts about negotiable instruments for the purpose of determining whether a particular instrument is appropriate for a specific investor at a particular time and the intrinsic value of the security compared to its market price, if any.

The technique has evolved over time with the changing nature of information.

In the 21st century, with a flood of open source information and increasingly complex, global markets, new approaches are necessary.

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