How Hedge Funds Rate Wall Street Analysts

Management access and original research are the keys to success with Wall Street’s most demanding and lucrative clients -- hedge funds.

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On Wall Street money talks, and nobody speaks louder than hedge fund managers. Sell-side analysts are listening.

Since major brokerage houses signed the $1.4 billion global research settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators in 2003 to resolve allegations that sell-side research favored investment banking clients, analysts have had to earn their keep without subsidies from investment banking fees.

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