MICHAEL AVERY: Reconnecting investors directly to stock issuers

I remember my first real job in financial journalism -- capturing daily Stock Exchange News Service (Sens) data, from general corporate finance actions to M&A, for David Gleason's boutique publishing house, cutting out clippings of company news from the two major business newspapers (Business Report was actually worth reading in the early 2000s) and filing them in the Finance Week library he had acquired. It was mundane. He was a curmudgeon about detail. I loved it.

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