Article: Unbiased observers. (Investments & Finance).(pay attention to independent stock research firms)

Article: Stock research system still flawed, some say.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  July 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 4 billion in fines and penalties for producing tainted stock research during the turn-of-the-century stock boom and bust ... pony up $432.5 million to pay for this research. The big firms would never say it publicly, but it's a good bet they ...

Article: Stock Research Reforms Are Studied
AP Online;  October 22, 2002 ;     518 words ... ... industry. They also wouldn't necessarily be that independent because they would still know their money is coming from the big firms ... I'm not saying that couldn't work. Coffee said regulators, in turn, have proposed creating a fund _ in essence ...

Article: Big firms divorce from big money; Get cold feet ...
Crain's New York Business;  March 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... of the law business is in the hands of big firms that offer every specialty under one ... legal industry's consolidation craze. Big firms are frightened of matrimonial practices ... fees in other legal niches have inspired big firms to gobble up boutiques in practically ...

Article: LETTERS: Questioning big firms' ethics.
Accounting Today;  August 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Accounting Today (No lack of ethics at big firms, July 7-20, 2008, page 6). There ... the accountancy profession. There are big firms and independent firms. The ethics practiced ... difference. But there was a benefit to the big firms to have the numbers of local firms when ...

Article: Big Firms Avoiding SEC Ire; Enforcement Record ...
The Washington Post;  January 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... action against those employed by the big firms. The agency took action against 15 auditors ... big accounting firms partly because the big firms can deploy overwhelming resources in ... detect accounting problems, he said. The big firms were more likely to show lapses of integrity ...

Article: Big firms pay better, study finds
Waikato Times;  July 22, 2009 ;     518 words ... ... who worked in small firms and those in big firms. The theory says bigger firms hire better ... There are a lot of hypotheses about why big firms pay higher wages," said Prof Gibson. "One is that big firms just hire better workers. We tested ...

Article: Baird takes advantages of big firms' big problems
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Baird takes advantages of big firms' big problems In the troubled world ... environment is their size. "At the big firms, in good times, they all make a ... banking business has dried up and the big firms began to cut expenses. The research ...