FIRST FULLY SEARCHABLE DATABASE BIGDOUGH.COM RELEASED.Investment Data Corp., Chevy Chase Chevy Chase (chĕv`ē), town (1990 pop. 8,559), Montgomery co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; founded as a village, inc. 1914. , Md., has released bigdough.com, the first fully searchable database Refers to databases on the Web that are searchable by typing in a query. The term is quite redundant because all databases are searchable. In fact, that is one of their major features. of institutional money managers and their stock holdings on the Internet -- and the most extensive such database found anywhere. (A free trial is available to qualified users at www.trial.bigdough.com. Simply go to the site and call the toll-free number provided there to get a passcode.) Bigdough covers 12,000+ portfolio managers and buy-side analysts Buy-side analyst A financial analyst employed by a nonbrokerage firm, typically one of the larger money management firms that purchases securities on its own account. at 2,200+ North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. institutions. About 500 European money management organizations will be added in early 1999. (It's impossible to provide precise figures because additional money managers and staffers are added hourly.) Plus, bigdough contains full, up-to-date 13-f stock holdings data on 1,600+ money managers. You can search for stock holdings on a particular money manager, or find the specific investors that hold a particular stock. The 13-f database is fully and seamlessly linked to the institution and contact records. Search results give direct phone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address , investment styles and descriptions, sectors covered, amount managed and much more. You even get personal data on portfolio managers and analysts such as employment history, academic background and funds managed. Results are presented in various reports, or directly to an Excel spreadsheet spreadsheet Computer software that allows the user to enter columns and rows of numbers in a ledgerlike format. Any cell of the ledger may contain either data or a formula that describes the value that should be inserted therein based on the values in other cells. that can be saved locally and imported into any database. Institutional investors Institutional Investor A non-bank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that they qualify for preferential treatment and lower commissions. in the database include hedge funds hedge fund, in finance, a highly speculative, largely unregulated investment device. Originating in the 1950s, the funds "hedge" by offsetting "short" positions (borrowing a security and then selling it at a higher price before repaying the lender) against "long" , private institutional asset managers, mutual fund companies, insurance companies, banks, pension funds, endowments and more - firms that collectively manage more than 90% of North America's institutional equity investment capital. Bigdough is updated hourly, making directories obsolete The bigdough database is updated hourly with information gathered from two teams of researchers: -- "Enterprise" researchers who track down new money managers from SEC filings and an intensive review of media and trade publications. -- "Beat" researchers who constantly update information through personal calls and faxes to portfolio managers and analysts already on the system. Powerful hedge-fund coverage One of bigdough's strengths is its coverage of hard-to-find hedge fund managers. It contains the largest and richest database of equity hedge fund managers in the world. More than 500 hedge fund management firms and 1,500+ hedge fund portfolio managers, collectively managing more than 1,000 equity hedge funds are covered in bigdough. Attention Journalists: Qualified members of the financial or Internet media get a FREE passcode to this powerful database. Use bigdough to quickly find the right institutional money managers, see who owns the stocks you're writing about, get info See properties. on hard-to-find hedge fund managers, and much more. Call or e-mail the media contact above to get your personal passcode. The log-on page for the trial site can be reached at www.trial.bigdough.com.. For more information, call 301/215-9113. |
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