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Search Engine Watch
May 25, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Launches Personalized Movie Recommendations Looking for a film recommendation based on your own personal tastes and interests? Check out Yahoo's new personalized movie recommendations.   |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
A Game Changer for Mutual Funds Morningstar announces a new analyst ratings system that could have meaningful implications for the mutual fund world. |
The Motley Fool
November 23, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Where All the Funds Are Above Average Morningstar's new system has a lot of winners and not too many losers. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
Konstan & Riedl |
Deconstructing Recommender Systems How Amazon and Netflix predict your preferences and prod you to purchase |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Bell et al. |
The Million Dollar Programming Prize Netflix's bounty for improving its movie-recommendation software is almost in the bag. Here is one team's account |
Registered Rep.
June 16, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Morningstar's New Rating System Gazes Beyond the "Stars" Looking to give advisors new measures for evaluating funds, Morningstar plans to release a new "forward-looking" rating tool that uses its analysts' expertise to evaluate the funds' ability to outperform their benchmarks. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2012
Allan S. Roth |
Beyond the Stars Morningstar's new forward-looking rating scale for mutual funds is sure to have a significant impact on the research done by financial advisors. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2012
Rebecca Lipman |
Avoiding "Group Think": Barclays and UBS Analysts Are Bullish for These 10 Stocks Looking for ideas on how to find stocks poised to outperform? One source is the sell-side ratings from various banks and firms, usually phrased positively as "buy" or "overweight." |
Registered Rep.
January 28, 2003 |
Weiss Study: Analyst Community Still a "Sell" Out A study of the ratings systems at 30 brokerage firms showed significant improvement in their identification of companies heading into bankruptcy. On the down side, though, a surprising number continue to recommend companies right up to the day they file for Chapter 11. |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2011
Becca Lipman |
Investing 101: Predictive Analysts Expect These Utility Stocks to Outperform Interested in utility stocks with good prospects? |
Registered Rep.
October 8, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Brokerage Firms Continued Recommending Floundering Companies: Weiss Survey A surprising 74% of the 62 brokerage firms that follow companies that filed for bankruptcy protection between May 1 and Aug. 31 continued to recommend those companies to investors even as they were seeking protection. |
Wired
February 25, 2008
Jordan Ellenberg |
This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize At first, it seemed some geeked-out supercoder was going to win the million in the Netflix competition for a new rating system. Now a mysterious single competitor with an bachelor's degree in psychology is passing through the ranks. |
Managed Care
August 2005 |
Credit Ratings Look Rosy for Rest of 2005 Standard & Poor's expects the health insurance industry sector to continue to improve its credit rating in the second half of the year. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
Lynn Hume |
The Bond Buyer SEC Votes on Rules for Rating Agencies: The proposed rules would implement provisions of the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006, which Congress approved and President Bush signed to foster increased competition, transparency and accountability among rating agencies. |
The Motley Fool
November 23, 2009 |
Casual Male Retail Group, Inc.: Warming Up or Cooling Off? What we think about the direction of this company's stock. |
The Motley Fool
November 23, 2009 |
Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.: Warming Up or Cooling Off? Take the temperature of your stock. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2006
Lynn Hume |
Bond Buyer The U.S. House of Representatives easily passed legislation designed to foster competition, transparency and accountability in the credit rating industry. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2006
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Behind the Star System Morningstar defends its mutual fund ratings in the face of new competition. |
Investment Advisor
August 2010
Marlene Y. Satter |
Morningstar to Rate 529 Plans Morningstar, which has researched 529 plans for years, is now adding a qualitative rating system for the plans, and quantitative ratings on 529 options within the plans. |
U.S. Banker
July 2008
Michael Sisk |
A `Radical' Answer to Credit-Ratings Conflict The government should remove itself completely from the credit-rating business, stop deciding which company can and can't rate a bond, and stop making institutions pay attention to rating agencies whose work may be shoddy - and, it often turns out, is. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The Most Powerful Companies in the World Allowing one company's actions to have so much influence over the economy is terribly dangerous and never should have happened. But it is still happening, with ratings agencies. |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2008
Saibal Saha |
"Sell" Is a 4-Letter Word Wall Street analysts hate to put down stocks, but praising everything doesn't help either. Merrill Lynch is taking steps to change the system. |
The Motley Fool
March 15, 2005 |
"Initiating Coverage" Read Wall Street coverage of your stocks with a wary eye. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 31, 2009
Martha Lagace |
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies Competition in credit ratings forces raters to favor issuers. This is contrary to the interest of those who rely on ratings to make investment decisions or to regulate. |
Finance & Development
December 2010
Arezki et al. |
Bad News Spreads When government debt is downgraded, the ill effects can be felt across countries and financial markets. |
Registered Rep.
May 17, 2011
Alan Lavine |
For Good Insurance, Get a Financially Sound Insurer The near collapse of the financial system in 2008 and 2009 makes it prudent to recommend the financially soundest insurance companies -- even though their premiums may be higher than those of lower-rated competitors. |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2009
Anand Chokkavelu |
Morningstar Has a AAA-Rated Plan Morningstar announced today that it's getting into the credit rating business. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2005
Rich Duprey |
S&P Ratings a Zero The credit rating agency ends its corporate governance evaluation service. Considering that it was up to the end user to decide whether to make S&P corporate governance score (CGS) ratings public, the ratings' value to the investing public was probably minimal. |
InternetNews
May 25, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Movies Get Personal Yahoo Movies adds ChoiceStream's personalization tools to its entertainment channel. |
CFO
June 1, 2010
Randy Myers |
Ratings Disaster Congress takes another stab at reforming the credit-rating agencies, whose AAA seal of approval helped fuel the subprime crisis. But will any change truly make a difference? |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 13, 2012
Maggie Starvish |
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's dominated the credit ratings industry for decades. Could the recession weaken their hold? |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010
Henry Sanderson |
A Chinese Rival to S&P, Fitch, and Moody's? Dagong Global Credit Rating wants to go global and take on its rivals' bias toward debtor countries in the West. |
Investment Advisor
April 2009
Marlene Y. Satter |
The Outlook: Negative, but Sound In the second half of 2008, Fitch Ratings moved its ratings outlook for most insurance regions and sectors globally to negative. |
Health
May 2008
Dana Sullivan Kilroy |
Check Your Car's Safety Rating See how your car compares. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2011
Alexander Crawford |
5 Insider Stock Picks that Predictive Analysts Expect to Outperform Do you think these stocks are in a strong position to move higher? |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Moody's Blues Debt-ratings agency Moody's watches its earnings and reputation erode, as the once-lucrative business of rating batches of collateralized debt obligations has begun to sour. |
PC Magazine
September 4, 2007
Anton Galang |
Q & A: The Watchful Eye of Gaming Patricia Vance, president of the Entertainment Software Rating Board, explains how games get their grades. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Anand Chokkavelu |
Buffett, the Rating Agencies, and a Possible Opportunity Warren Buffett discusses the rating agencies and suggests a company that may be coming to eat their lunch. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2008
Rich Duprey |
When Good Isn't Good Enough A new study shows that good corporate governance scores don't really help predict trouble. |
New Architect
May 2002
Amit Asaravala |
Rating Security Should the government enforce higher standards for tech vendors? If certain vendors continue to distribute flawed products, we must give technology buyers the means to identify those flaws and the option to purchase truly secure products. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2008
Sham Gad |
What a Rating Downgrade Really Means Repercussions of bond rating downgrades could wreak havoc on investors. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Rating Agencies Begin to Come Clean If any group deserves the most blame for shady practices that gave credence to subprime debt, it might be the rating agencies. |
OCC Bulletin
March 10, 2000 |
Risk-Based Capital-Recourse and Direct Credit Substitutes This bulletin transmits a proposed rule that would amend the OCC's risk-based capital regulations to treat direct credit substitutes and recourse obligations consistently and would incorporate the use of credit ratings as an indicator of a bank's risk of loss... |
The Motley Fool
March 5, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: One Money Stock, Amazon's Future, and Netflix's Ratings Analyst Andy Cross rates ratings star Morningstar. |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Put the Rating Agencies Out of Their Misery Before It's Too Late Once again, raters have proven themselves stuck on stupid. Congress is waking up. Two amendments in the just-passed Senate financial overhaul bill could euthanize the flawed parts of the rating system. |
PC Magazine
April 27, 2011
Ben Gottesman |
Readers' Choice Awards 2011: Desktops and Laptops Our yearly survey reveals just who PCMag readers love -- and who they don't -- in the world of desktops and laptops. |
CFO
September 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Good to Rate The rating agencies are under review for their failure to downgrade Enron more promptly. The only trouble is, proposed reforms might make things worse. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
These 4 Junk Stocks Are on Their Way Up Bond ratings can have a big impact on a stock. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Steve DeFuria |
"Full-Disclosure" Power Ratings Full disclosure power rating specifications should be an industry standard and to that end, NAD hopes other manufacturers accept this premise when publishing amplifier specifications. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2010
Alan J. Foxman |
Do You Always Have A Right To An Attorney In Arbitration? Q&A: Rights to attorneys in arbitration... Is giving the client a bond's rating enough when it comes to disclosing risks?... |
