If the S&P 500 rises 29% in a year, but no one is around to tell clients, does anyone make money?
The answer is yes. Still, it is notable that in a banner period for stocks, by one measure stock analysts weren’t having nearly as good a year.
Wall Street’s research business isn’t new to cost pressures by any means, but last year they seemed to ratchet even higher, according to an analysis by Integrity Research Associates.
The number of research analysts working at the dozen largest global investment banks dropped from about 3,800 at the end of 2018 to 3,500 as of June. If that trend kept up through the second half of the year, Integrity noted, it would be the biggest annual percentage drop in head count since at least 2012, when data-provider Coalition began tracking the stat.
Integrity pointed to myriad causes, ranging from a European rule barring the practice of charging for research through trading commissions to an overall 30% decline in stock-trading commissions since 2012.
Perhaps it will take a bad market, in which nobody is making money, to show the value of good advice.
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