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13th Annual Biotech and Specialty Pharmaceuticals Conference
December 1, 2009
The major biotech indexes are either matching or outperforming the S&P 500. At the beginning of October, the Nasdaq Biotech Stock Index (NBI) was up nearly 10% YTD and the AMEX Biotech Index (BTK) had gains of almost 40%. The S&P 500 was up approximately 10%.
The CEOs, CFOs, and other executives from some of the industry’s most innovative small- and micro-cap companies will discuss their plans to invent, develop, research, and market important new drugs, diagnostics, and delivery technologies.
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NYSSA Launches 8th Annual Investment Research Challenge
NYSSA launched its 8th Annual Investment Research Challenge (IRC) at its headquarters on October 23, 2009 with a lunch presentation to review the rules and announce the publicly-traded company for its sixteen teams to report on.
Brian Stype, NYSSA’s manager of business development and university relations, revealed that Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is the publicly-traded company that each team will research. Bitstream is a software development company that enables customers worldwide to render high-quality text, browse the web on wireless devices, select from the largest collection of fonts online, and customize documents over the Internet.
Stype also reviewed the rules, regulations, and Challenge timeline. Each team will conduct research and write a report on their findings. This year, the rules were changed to provide all teams with the opportunity give a presentation to a panel of industry experts, instead of only the final four teams. The winning team will be selected based on the combined scores for the written report and the presentation. Rhonda Reid from CFA Institute explained that winning the NYSSA IRC qualifies the team for the CFA Institute Global Investment Research Challenge in which they will compete against teams from schools across the world. The Global Challenge will be held in Hong Kong in April 2010.
After the review of the rules, Louis Hacaj and Elias-John Kies from Edgar Online (NASDAQ: EDGR) presented iMetrix—the only web accessible product powered by XBRL financial statement data with analytical tools that provide quick and accurate company data—which the students will be using to conduct their research.
After the presentation, the teams retrieved their introductory Bitstream packets, opened them and began what will most certainly be a long and rewarding process.
The sixteen teams for this year’s Challenge are:
- Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business
- Charles F. Dolan School of Business at Fairfield University
- Christos M. Cotsakos College of Business at William Patterson University
- Columbia Business School
- Cornell University’s The Johnson School (first year competing)
- Fordham University’s College of Business Administration
- The Hagan School of Business at Iona College
- Hofstra University’s Frank G. Zarb School of Business
- NYU Stern School of Business
- Pace University’s Lubin School of Business
- The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University
- Quinnipiac University’s School of Business (first year competing)
- Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick
- Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University
- Stony Brook University’s College of Business
- Yale University (last year’s winner)
The Investment Research Challenge is an educational initiative in which leading industry professionals teach business and finance students how to research and report on a publicly traded company. It consists of training in research and report writing, analysis of a public company, mentoring by a professional research analyst, assessment of written reports, and presentation of research to a high profile panel of Wall Street experts. NYSSA introduced the Challenge eight years ago as a means to promote best practices in research among the next generation of analysts.
The Gold Sponsors for the Challenge are EDGAR Online and Thomson Reuters and the Silver Sponsors are CFA Institute and Credit Suisse.
For more information, please visit www.nyssa.org/irc.
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