Policy Development and Research Department
IMF department concerned with policy development and research. It ensures IMF policy is applied consistently through the country departments.
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Research department
The office in an institutional investing organizations that analyzes markets and securities.
Research portable
Service offered to clients that transmits investment bank research electronically by computers.
Research Department
A department within a brokerage firm, or other institutional investing organization, that analyzes securities and markets using both fundamental analysis and technical analysis.
Research Department (business term)
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The research department of an investment bank is staffed by research analysts. These are the people who often appear on business news programs and talk about the performance of a particular company or stock.
See: Research Department
Hedge Fund
Securities term that describes funds that use hedging techniques. For example, an option fund may use futures contracts on stock market indexes and short sales with stock options to limit risks.
The largest research departments are those in the global investment banks, which employ several hundred analysts each in a wide range of locations, and cover the majority of the world's liquid stocks.
indication by a research department that its analysts have just begun to follow a particular stock, usually a favorable development for holders of that company's shares.
See also neglected firm effect
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Investment banks published list of buy and sell recommendations from its research department; signified by a flashing "F" on Quotron. Footsie (FTSE) Financial Times (FT)-Actuaries 100 index: "Dow average" of London.
In 1990 Guldimann took responsibility for JP Morgan's Global Research department, overseeing research activities to support marketing to institutional clients. In that capacity he managed an annual research conference for clients.
Firms frequently maintain research departments for their own and their clients' benefit, and increasingly they provide a range of financial products and services, including financial planning, asset management, and educational programs.
A brokerage firm that maintains a research department and other services designed to supply its individual and institutional customers with investment advice.
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Real estate companies calculate leasing activity from the unit turnover on its database and from information compiled by the research department and from the local the real estate boards.
The sell side includes retail brokers, institutional brokers and traders, and research departments. If an institutional portfolio manager changes jobs and becomes a registered representative, he or she has moved from the buy side to the sell side.
These firms usually have full-time research departments and investment analysts, who provide information the firm's brokers share with clients.
Full-service broker. A brokerage firm that maintains a research department and other services designed to supply its individual and institutional customers with investment advice.
Used in the context of general equities. Investment banks published list of buy and sell recommendations from its research department; signified by a flashing F on Quotron.
FOK
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This refers to securities firms which employ investment advisors to work with retail and institutional clients and has underwriting, trading and research departments.
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a professor of economics in the College of Management at North Carolina State University and a Sloan Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly a senior economist in the Research Department ...
isolate persons within a firm who make investment decisions from persons within a firm who are privy to undisclosed material information which may influence those decisions. For example, there should be separate fax machines for research departments ...
research department Department in a full-service brokerage in which analysts study markets and securities and issue recommendations. reseller One who buys goods from a manufacturer and resells them to customers unchanged.
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