GLG News

GLG News is a new product being offered by Gerson Lehrman that allows Analysts to tap into Gerson's network of consultants without using the phone. The product works in three different ways.

1.) The consultants that are part of their network will find an article on the Internet that they think would be relevant to the investment community. They than write there own analysis of the topic that pertains to the article. The analysis offers a link to the article so you can reference what they are speaking about.

2.) Research analysts can submit an article that they would like to have a consultant comment on. The analyst is asked to include a link to the article that they are submitting and then the consultants read the article and provide their expertise whenever they think they can add information.

3.) Using the GLG News platform you are able to set-up a phone consultation with analysts that comment on certain articles. Essentially, you can qualify subject experts through their writings in GLG news and then you can easily set-up a consultation by using a link in the system.


Relevant Features

• A fully searchable database of past consultants postings. You can easily search over 7,500 different entries to find information that consultants have already posted on. This is expected to increase rapidly in the future as Gerson starts to tap into more of their network to add posts
• An organized Subject Taxonomy. Consultants tag their articles based on a taxonomy that has been developed over time. You can easily find articles that pertain to a subject area that you would like to monitor. They also tag their entries based on the companies that are referenced in the articles that they are reviewing. Currently this only relates to companies traded on the American exchanges but they are expanding into international exchanges in 4 to 6 months.
• Subject, company, and consultant watchlists. The technology allows you to easily set-up a watch list for any of these three areas. If a new article is posted that is any part of your watchlist you will receive an email with a link to the article posted by the consultant.
  Email capabilities. GLG News allows you to email the full content of an analysis on GLG News. If you find an article that you think is relevant to other members of your sector group you can easily send their review to other members of the Research Staff.

Ease of Use

I found this technology pretty simple to use. I think the Watchlist feature is especially creative and could be of benefit to analysts interested in monitoring different subject matter. The one drawback is that they do not offer 'Keyword' search watchlists which would be of benefit for more obscure topics that an analyst might want to monitor.