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...successor to McClellan. Other oft-mentioned possible replacements for McClellan are Dan Senor, former chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority and senior adviser to L. Paul Bremer III, who was the senior civilian administrator in Iraq; Trent Duffy, formerly McClellan?s deputy and now a consultant and television analyst; and Robert S. Nichols, formerly Bush?s Assistant Treasury Secretary for Public Affairs and now president and chief operating officer of the Financial Services Forum...
...blame regulators for not going far enough in the cleanup campaign. A settlement reached in 2003 with 12 Wall Street firms forced disclosure of analyst conflicts, set aside $460 million to fund and distribute unbiased stock research to individual investors and linked analyst pay to the performance of stocks they pick. That's a lot better than the old days, when an analyst might tout stock of a so-so company purely to ingratiate himself with management...
...even under the new rules there is no guarantee that independent analyst advice is conflict free. Drug company Biovail has asserted that independent research firm Gradient Analytics wrote a report trashing the company, and that the report was paid for by a hedge fund that had sold Biovail short (a bet the stock would decline). Gradient has said its conclusions were...
...Ignore any analyst rating that is more than six months old. That just means the analyst has dropped the ball...
...Research a research firm's and an analyst's record. Anyone can get hot, so look at a two- or three-year history. Free online tool Investars.com is a good place to start...