"In November 2014, a group of finance analysts released an interesting research report on the gig economy and its implications on finance. Among its conclusions were that wages across the board had been reduced and that driver wages were actually set lower than the median for taxi drivers in the United States, at $16.92 per hour. Taxi drivers earn on average 40 percent more than Uber drivers, and earn considerably more than Uber drivers in most U.S. cities. Pay for Uber drivers typically increases with more time in the system (thus earning less per hour), a feature of all such platforms that allow people to maintain a supplemental income. Cases of drivers earning more are rare, but the researchers were able to locate one that earned an impressive $6.72 an hour. Another data set showed that of 40 drivers they contacted, 42"

"Financial analysts should know their analytics. Well, actually they need to. They earn on a 3+% marginal return (30-40 basis points) on sales (minus variable costs), sell a product or service for a profit and manage multiple products and projects (all of which are supported by the finance department). More importantly, they provide analysts that write and design analytics software. If I am an analyst and I have an analytical supervisor, I should want to know how finance and other departments that support analytics perform. And if I am working with analysts, I should be looking at analytics processes and finances to figure out what’s being earned and then deciding if it makes sense to move on to earn"

"Pimco had reduced its US debt holdings in recent months due to doubts about the sustainability of current yield levels and a lowering of expectations that monetary policy would remain accommodative for long. But in the latest note, the firm noted that investors have pushed down yields of some highly rated government bonds in the past two months, and yields on 10-year Treasury notes have fallen by 1.9% in the past six months. Pimco had reduced its US debt holdings as the “reflexive market reaction to QE3” suggested it was likely that US interest rates would rise sooner than expected. Although yields are moving up in Europe, Pimco said those moves are less volatile. Also, the US financial sector has become more attractive as a yield play. The European Central Bank’s recent decision to offer unprecedented loans to highly indebted governments could drive a reduction in the European sovereign debt crisis, and the presence of institutions like the European Financial Stability Facility or the European Stability Mechanism “serves as a counterweight to the power of political pressures.” Image: Flowing streams of cash from central banks into bonds is ultimately part of the Keynesian financial engineering that has created the massive global indebtedness and unhealthy financial sector that risks wrecking the world economy and throwing tens of millions into poverty. It also shows that those who believe in the efficient operation of markets, provided that the rules of finance are played by the “free markets,” ultimately have been proven wrong. But investors “should not dismiss the importance of analysis. A little analytical research could provide investors with useful insight into the future.” For example, “Even at today’s relatively low interest rates, the growth rate of interest payments relative to GDP is approximately 6%,” Pimco added. “At 3.5%, debt servicing payments reach 2.4% of GDP. Clearly, investors could profitably earn more by taking advantage of cheap"

"Since 1999, Google has made its profit by relentlessly providing insights and tools for the individuals to refine their search, paying off by the increasing digital monetization of the online world. The company’s research is its business, too, and it’s pushing hard to determine how to use big data analytics to make money. The best proof of this venture’s success is Google Finance. The finance firm, launched in 1999, is now one of the most popular websites. According to Alexa, more people are connected to Google Finance than Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google. “Whether we invest, trade or pay interest on our wealth, finance is vital to personal finance. Finance is a field where data and analytics hold more potential to drive business"

"Coeure's impressive CV Clifford Hoffman, Senior Fellow The Conference Board of Canada has just released a report from its Chief Economist John Ryding titled “The Economic Outlook for Canada in 2018: Optimism Turns Uncertain“. You can find the PDF file here. Conducted over two years, the research includes a survey of 30,000 households across Canada, making it the largest such survey conducted in Canada in a decade. The research reveals that Canadian consumer confidence remains high. However, such confidence has been impacted by rising uncertainty about the direction of the economy and policy. In terms of consumer spending, household expectations for increased retail sales and employment in 2018 have grown over the past six months. Those expectations have led to a larger increase in the amount of discretionary spending and in"

"As a high-yield finance analyst I have analyzed many companies, making me an analytical wiz. As a result I earn an average of ~2x what most MBAs earn in their first year of their MBA programs. So not too bad either. I started earning 1/5th of what I used to earn at Target and JP Morgan. Now it’s 2/5ths. Here is how much my salary increased from last quarter to this quarter. Financial results: 10.2% increase This is the same period last year so I still earn a decent amount of money. The 10.2% is nothing spectacular but it’s a hefty percentage that analysts usually earn. When I joined Target’s finance department I only earned $600/month as an analyst. Now I earn $10,000/month. In order to make a lot of money and find more opportunities, I also
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"Financing & Trading Industry Finance Reports For more on financial trading reports visit our Finance and Trading Industry report page. When investing in financial trading, the more you know the better off you can be. Knowing the principles of finance can lead you to making the right decisions at the right time and for the right price. Research is the foundation for a successful financial trading career. This process helps to enable you to evaluate a company’s finances, analyse their business structure and their competitors’ strategies and develop detailed financial analysis reports. Trading reports give you a glimpse into the finances and business structure of the financial trading companies you"

"Given that cybersecurity teams generally handle much of the analysis and insights around security incidents, CSO’s asked security analysts to do some real-world trading this year and earn a profit for investing in cybersecurity research. To do this, CSO’s asked cybersecurity experts and cybersecurity experts to invest $1,000 each into an innovative cybersecurity startup. We also partnered with Veracode to help each company analyze and report their security effectiveness through the Veracode Security Scorecard and Veracode Complete Security. Additionally, CSO’s partnered with KPMG to give CSOs of the top 20 cybersecurity organizations a $20,000 KPMG cybersecurity audit to further hone their knowledge and expertise. Based on the companies’ responses, cybersecurity leaders have clearly stepped up to earn that profit and, as a"

"Blackberry is to invest in research of artificial intelligence to assess how it can enhance its existing cybersecurity products and make new hardware as well. The firm has partnered with Aeon and the Telecom Data Centre Group (TDGC) to establish a research centre in Dublin, in addition to other hubs in Waterloo and Montreal. The investment is planned for Blackberry's Research and Development Division (R&D). Its financing has been approved by the Canadian government as well as TDGC. The Canadian government has made investments of nearly $1.8 billion in Canadian firms and research groups over the past three years. The strategic investment of BlackBerry in TDGC includes a 2,750 square metre, four-"

"To grow into the future, Günter Finkelstein believes the finance industry must expand the impact of the analytical work it does to support investment decisions. Finkelstein, who has served as finance director of the Deutsche Bank Group and co-president of investment banking at Citigroup, is the latest in a string of senior industry figures to reflect on the issues that will dominate business in the next three to five years. Based at IBM Research and Zurich, Finkelstein describes himself as "a finance guy, albeit a finance guy who wants to also be part of a future that is complex, interesting and exciting". His comments were presented in conjunction with the Zurich European Financial Services Forum, a panel discussion hosted by the Finance Club of the Financial Times. As the financial services sector moves from a single-mission-driven model to a more analytical and data-driven model, finance executives have to decide whether they are going to participate in this growth or fight it. Finkelstein said finance executives should embrace analytics to "become successful in the new era and sustainably grow the value of the financial service industry". But he admitted that while finance is currently "fast-moving and financially exciting", finance executives do not necessarily want to take on the growing financial risks that accompany the shift to analytics. To earn a good profit in finance, Finkelstein said, you need to analyse. To earn a good margin, you have to "enormously earn [profit] in investment banking and make a lot of money to become a formidable competitor in finance". As such, one of the key challenges facing finance is earning profit from analytics. "Making money by providing analytical services is potentially a lot more profitable than making money by providing services. The barrier to entry is now very high," said Finkelstein. And Finkelstein said finance can only keep growing and generating earnings if finance executives help create the analytical"

"Research sponsored by American research group Cowen says bitcoin will become a $7bn industry by 2022. The estimated profit rate of bitcoin comes in at $1.44 per transaction. Other analysts say the industry’s value will be at least five times that amount. How does bitcoin earn a profit? The model calculates the profit rate by looking at the financial services sector with payment processing and digital currencies. The research company says “growth from the investment and trading of the products will drive this industry to achieve an estimated value of $7bn by 2022”. Analyst Jason Furman, from the president’s council on economic advisers, told CNBC in March that one of the reasons for the difference"

"Out of pure interest I had been reading online about the new website Finance Analysts.com and found an interesting conversation going on between James Shufelt (Contributor to Finance Analysts) and Rob Downing (Team Manager at Finance Analysts) and Rob Dixon (Chief Revenue Officer of Finance Analysts). Shufelt then wrote to me offering his account, in which he was only engaged to read ‘not very much’ to find out about the research operations behind Finance Analysts. Here’s how it all went down… Not so long ago, I had a bit of an epiphany. Having left an analytical research group for an analyst position where they couldn’t see me — I soon realized it was a trap. I’d been earning quite a bit, at a very acceptable standard, from a"

"What if you could add a report about your personal finances to Google Analytics and earn a small, but gratifying amount of money? For many companies, analytics is largely a research function, like keeping up with what your users are doing in your site, to build a more effective product. Most companies are not earning as much as they could with their analytics, so they’re leaving it to the research teams to crunch the numbers and write the reports. These reports are generally written for the finance people in the company, and you’ll find that it doesn’t necessarily follow the latest trends, so you won’t earn a lot. Sure, you may be earning $1,000 annually, but at the end of the year, you won’t necessarily have a successful,"

"Pondering new alternatives to earn a steady income Disclosure: This is the headline of a piece I wrote for my Forbes Business Blog and was published last year. My opinions are my own. © Brian L. Montgomery I'll never forget the day I returned from an all-expenses-paid trip to London. I was thrilled to return home to my wife and three young children. At the time I had a job in finance. It was a good job but it was small-scale. There was no big bonus that would net me a month's salary, not a few hundred dollars. I had also worked a full-time job and still had to pay all the household bills. When I left London I had earned $120,000, roughly $20,000 a month. That salary would make a financial lifeline for many. It was enough to"

"That's my research director, Steve Rubin, sitting in front of a large monitor. Rubin has been working with financial analysts for more than 20 years and became the director of finance for the analytics department at ProShares in 2014. And at the moment, Rubin is analyzing a forecast for financial institutions in which ProShares has more than $50 billion invested, on an analytical scale more than 200 times their value. It's a hugely complex set of equations that determine market movements, based on predictions from industry research analysts. 'The risk here, of course, is that in the midst of every financial turmoil or catastrophe, whether in Europe, the Middle East, or China, suddenly the risk factors of the financial institutions get turned upside down and then the prospects of making money and making that portfolio earn money turns upside down,' says Rubin, managing director of the research department at ProShares. 'So we are always very cautious.' The financial industry offers a huge amount of profit for investors to take on. For investors working in financial research and investment management, that profit is based in part on a combination of new financial innovations and financial risk management strategies. These financial innovation-focused funds are looking to make money in the rapidly growing financial services industry while simultaneously managing risk for investors, ensuring their portfolios are earning a fair and competitive rate of return. There's more risk involved than usual with these financial services funds. Finance analysis, when done correctly, is an analytical exercise, analyzing data to determine where future value will come from. But there is also financial risk associated with financial research and investment management. 'You're trying to predict things that are happening in the world,' Rubin says. 'The risk here, of course, is that in the midst of every financial turmoil or catastrophe, whether in Europe, the Middle East, or China,"