If you are reading this blog, surely you have realized that there are a great many options available regarding the stock market and individual stocks around the web. The depth, quality and formality of internet postings vary greatly from research articles, blogs and message boards. Some are produced by financial professionals while others can be pumped out by stock jockeys that are often viewed in the same way as spammers. To make matters more complex, so much of the web today is cloaked in anonymity and an author’s objectives are not easily known. So, when an investor researches an investment idea, it is likely that they will find a number of articles both touting and warning against an investment in the very same security. The obvious question is, what articles are worthwhile for investors and which are meaningless or counter to their goals?
A new site has emerged to help investors seeking clarity through quantifying the returns of invest advice given by online financial publications. LikeAssets.com has done the work to quantify the investment returns of more than 20 publishers (The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Seeking Alpha, etc) as well as hundreds of individual authors. The study has taken a look at literally thousands of investment articles dating back to January 2009, and is a wonderful resource for anyone who reads about investing online. 
Registration is free and easy for anyone interested, and you can compare your portfolio to those of the authors at the world’s most popular stock publications as well as compare yourself to a customized benchmark.
How does LikeAssets quantify returns?
Also, we are proud to note that according to LikeAssets Ockham Research has been one of the top performing equity research providers. Of the 60 “portfolios” tracked since January of 2009, we are proud to say that our picks have returned 49.4% compared to the LikeAssets Benchmark return of 28.9%. During that time, the S&P 500 has returned about 23.5% by way of comparison. Because we are beating the LikeAssets benchmark by roughly 20%, we receive a score of 20 which is second among all publishers. Among our most successful stock picks were:
