We Doing Here?
(Remember, this is California Gold Rush 2000!)
Session URL:
http://www.usc.edu/source/StockTalk.htm
Everything
we talk about today will be saved for you live on the Web
at this URL
I. Introduction and Methodology (Nancy Taylor)
A. An Electronic Methodology (or Why the Web?)
1. Internet-based
resources (real life)
a. Changes in document availability (since 1994)
b. Changes in access (just pop in from any PC)
c. Changes in accountability
Top Notch Researchers vs. Vendors
or
$900 million vs. $8,000
d. Changes in price
It's FREE!!!!
2. BASIC
Research
Techniques
Focus on PROXY STATEMENT because it is the
#1 SEC source for wealth and
biographical data
#1 free source
#1 Stock holdings research tool for researchers
And we have a time limit
B. A Research Methodology or
"Just the Facts, Ma'am"
per
Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet
1. What is a Proxy?: Description and Glossary
a. The Proxy and The DEF 14A
(from the SEC Guide to Corporate
Filings)
b. Glossary - SEC Guide to Corporate Filings
2. Who's in a Proxy?
a. 1934 Act Registration Statements
b. Insiders (The Secret of 5% & 10%)
3. Where are Proxies?
a. Looking for a Company Proxy?
b. Looking for People in Proxies?
ii. http://www.edgar-online.com/people/
4. Why the Proxy? --See above