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Eight top analysts left Legg Mason last June to found Precursor Group, based in Washington. Led by former ING Barings ceo Michael Petrycki, another group of analysts broke away last May to form Fulcrum Global Partners, based in New York City. They join well-established Sanford C. Bernstein among the boutique firms selling stock research unfettered by investment-banking concerns. Individual investors generally can't get research from these firms, which are paid in commissions from hedge funds or mutual funds that act on the firms' recommendations. But select, full research reports are available at prices as high as several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whom Can You Trust? | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

Having cultivated an identity, the network rarely deviates from it. "The way to get into minds and living rooms is to make your network a brand, and that's what Lifetime does so successfully," says Tom Wolzien, a media analyst at the Wall Street firm Sanford C. Bernstein. Every show reinforces the brand image, whether it's the profiles of celebrated women on Intimate Portrait or original movies like Video Voyeur, based on a true story about a woman who discovers her churchgoing neighbor is a Peeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lifetime Netowrk: What Women Watch | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...major networks' new hit sitcoms star black men. This would not have been news in the era of mass-market TV 10, 20 or 30 years ago, when white and black Americans alike would expend a few brain cells following the high jinks of Fred Sanford, the Fresh Prince and Steve Urkel. But in the mid-'90s, as the new "netlets" UPN and the WB added African-American sitcoms to draw an audience eager to see people on TV who looked like them, the big networks went even whiter. White folks watch Friends, and black folks watch Steve Harvey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Color Crosses Over | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...there is only so much cost cutting can get you," warns Michael Nathanson, European media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. EMI needs to sell more CDs. And that means finding global superstars. To accomplish that, EMI will have to improve its talent-spotting operations in America, where its market share is a puny 10%. The U.S. is the world?s biggest music market and it?s impossible to create world megastars with poor sales there. Deutsche Bank analyst Mark Beilby doubts if any of the five major music companies are willing to invest the time and money needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pump Up the Volume | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

Numbers like that make friends and competitors pay attention. "We'd be lining up if they wanted to sell," says Ken Berry, chief of the gigantic EMI Music conglomerate, "as would a lot of other people too, I suspect." Record industry analyst Michael Nathanson of the Sanford Bernstein company says Jive is nimble and quick to catch hot trends: "They've got an incredible track record of breaking new artists and building mass stars." In the expanding worldwide market, Jive has posted the kind of stratospheric sales numbers that the industry hasn't seen since Beatlemania: 60 million for four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jive Records Presents: Teen Idols Collect Them All! | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

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