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Are buy-side analysts inferior?

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Buy-side analysts aren’t as good as sell-side analysts. At least not in the opinion of some researchers.

“…buy-side analysts made more optimistic and less accurate forecasts than their counterparts on the sell side,” according to “Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts,” an article by Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, and Craig Chapman of Harvard Business School in the July/August issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.  

“The performance differences appear to be partially explained by the buy-side firm’s greater retention of poorly performing analysts and by differences in the performance benchmarks used to evaluate buy-side and sell-side analysts.”

Do you buy the authors’ conclusions?  

As of August 19, there’s a poll on the right-hand side of this blog that will let you vote on the accuracy of buy-side vs. sell-side analysts. It’s a temporary poll, so vote now! If you think the issues are too complex to be addressed by a poll, please add your comments below.

Useful quarter-end fact from The Wall Street Journal

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Here is a useful tidbit for your quarterly investment commentary from the June 28-29 issue of The Wall Street Journal:

  • Bear markets average 14 months and recover within a year of their bottom, according to Sam Stovall of S&P in “What to Do to Survive This Market”

The 14-month average is also cited in “Dow Hits Bear-Market Territory, Signaling Woe for Economy,” but attributed to Ned Davis Research. It’s accompanied by a graph showing the healthy gains the Dow has earned in the year following each bear market’s end since the 1960s.

Time to invest in frontier market stocks

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“If you remember China 20 years ago, you get a sense of the potential for frontier markets today.” 

This quote from Larry Speidell, chief investment officer of Frontier Market Asset Management, kicks off my article on “Time to invest in frontier market stocks?” in Advisor Perspectives.

Are YOU ready to invest in frontier market stocks? Leave your comments here.