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Dr. Riza Berkan From Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque New York:
The insider-trading crackdown has brought immense pressure on hedge funds that utilize expert networks. Up until now expert networks offered managers insight into "the pulse" of any industry through conversations, and in some cases reports, case studies, or analysis by thought leaders in any given industry. As many funds turn away from these resources, firms such as Hakia are coming to market offering a different take on how to monitor the "pulse" of a company, industry, or region. The firm just launched SENSEnews, a tool mainly for stock analysis, that keeps its finger on the pulse of the entire world through web content aggregation, and offers that information up for analysis to asset managers.
The difference is, SENSEnews is aggregating the content of 31,000 news sources, and one million blogs and Twitter feeds, meaning its insight is coming from anyone from expert level sources, to general, run of the mill commentary. And that begs the question in the "information age" where large market movements unfold in real time, should the opinions and sentiments of every person contributing content on the web count?
Dr. Riza Berkan, CEO of Hakia & co-inventor of SENSEnews explained to Opalesque that the service uses 16 criteria when filtering...................... To view our full article Click here
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