Thom Erbé and I met yesterday to get the ball rolling for the 2014 AR Forum in September. We’re starting earlier than last year in order to consult more widely
The CFA Institute is best known worldwide for its rigorous chartered financial analyst (CFA) curriculum and examination program. It’s an interesting expression of the lack of openly-accepted best-practice guidance for
On March 3rd 2014, Kea Company announced its purchase of SageCircle. It’s great news for the analyst relations profession, and I am excited that Dave Eckert will be joining our
In 2013 the Analyst Relations Forum started drilling down on social AR. We’re delighted that Stephen Loudermilk and Michael Myers agreed to join Jonathan Yarmis and me in our webinar
A recent post on the HFS Research blog focusses on some independent analysts as “pay to play”. It’s a useful post, but that key point doesn’t fit with our annual
Teresa Cottom, my former Ovum colleague who is now Founder & Chief Strategist at Telesperience, had made some very useful criticism and comment (here, and well worth a read) about
Analysts firms vary massively in their independence. That’s one finding of our 2013 Analyst Value Survey, which shows the opinions of 352 users of analyst research. Ovum, NelsonHall and Redmonk
It was my pleasure to be part of organising the IIAR webinar on February 17th which announced the launch of the IIAR’s German chapter. As someone who has studied and
