Sell more stock, get more investors, increase visibility, and improve your relationships!

If you are in the business of selling or marketing equities  —  as a corporate investor relations officer, institutional broker, analyst, or investment banker —  there is simply no better way to add new investors, or manage and grow your existing relationships than with bigdough.com. 

Bigdough provides the most efficient method for institutional marketing, sales, prospecting and relationship management.  Bigdough customers include: 47 of the top 50 institutional brokerage firms in the world; hundreds of other brokerage firms and research providers; several hundred public companies -- from the very large to the very small (who want to get very large) -- IR consultants; executive recruiters; financial media and others.

What makes bigdough unique

1) Focus.  Bigdough is a company of over 100 highly motivated, very smart professionals focused EXCLUSIVELY on capital markets contact and holdings software.  It's all we do, and we do it very well.  We are the market leader and chief innovator in this space.

2) Complete Marketing and Management Solution.  Bigdough is a powerful database of institutional money managers and their stock holdings, and a powerful contact management and communications software platform.

3) Data Quality.  Bigdough has a large, carefully trained and managed staff of capital markets research analysts.  This massive force does nothing but manage, update and grow our database.  No company in the industry comes anywhere close to this level of manpower and resources devoted to database management.  As a consequence, the data quality and accuracy we deliver to our customers is unparalleled.  Our data is known in the marketplace as the most highly accurate, timely and well-scrubbed. 

Bigdough also contains a unique and powerful financial press database, consisting of influential journalists at key financial and business media outlets. These are the journalists who move markets with their stories, opinions, and reporting.  

Awards and Honors

bigdough was named the 56th fastest growing company in the US in 2003 by Inc. Magazine, after hitting the number 76 mark in the 2002 Inc. survey.

bigdough was named the nation's top financial content website by Forbes Magazine in 2003, for the second year in a row!

Special Features

These are just a few of the many special features found on the bigdough platform:

• Large searchable, integrated database of buy-side, sell-side, financial press professionals with complete ownership data
• Powerful relationship management software built right into the database and website
• A large staff of professional researchers dedicated solely to updating and growing the databases -- by far, the industry's most experienced and best-trained research force
• Direct money manager e-mail addresses and links
• Full e-mail and communications platform integrated into contact manager and database
• Results of any search downloadable into an EXCEL spreadsheet in seconds
• Real-time, breaking money management news fully linked to contact data
• Blast e-mail and fax – send a single message to as many targeted contacts as you want instantaneously -- all on a me-to-you basis
• Live person and Internet-based customer service (your choice); 10 minute response time, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week guaranteed
• Ongoing data updates throughout every business day
• Complete institutional and mutual fund ownership data -- for North America and Europe, all fully linked to portfolio manager and institution records and intelligence
• Stock ownership data integrated with trader contact data, and stock coverage data
• Peer group targeting and ownership searching
• Targeting by industry coverage
• Complete Canadian and European buy-side coverage, in addition to U.S.
• Complete coverage of sell-side contact, industry coverage, stock coverage and stock recommendation data
• Massive, accurate and up-to-date database of equity hedge funds and their managers
• Enterprise enabled software
• Photographs of money managers 
• Database of journalists who influence investors and move markets
• Reports that measure success, track activity, analyze your owners, and many others
• and much, much more.

How bigdough.com gathers data

Bigdough is updated in real-time throughout every business day by our staff of in-house researchers. 

Data is gathered from five distinct "teams" of researchers:

Domestic Beat researchers, divided into geographic regions -- or beats -- in the U.S. and in Canada, who update information through personal calls to portfolio managers, analysts and traders.

Hedge Fund researchers, who focus exclusively on managing and growing bigdough's massive database of these secretive investors. 

Sell-Side researchers, who are responsible for tracking analysts at brokerage firms, investment banks, and research shops. This group also carefully tracks research coverage by industry, specific stocks and stock recommendations.

International researchers, who track more than 1,800 non-North American institutional investment operations and more than non-North American16,000 investment professionals around the world.  This is bigdough's fastest growing dataset.  This group of researchers includes Spanish, French, Italian, and German speakers.

Media researchers, who build and manage bigdough's detailed universe of financial media outlets and reporters. 

Company background

The bigdough Pedigree

Bigdough was created from a company started in 1994, called Investment Data Corporation (IDC). IDC provided specialized buy side equity money manager directories called the Gold Books. They included Institutional Buyers of Small-Cap Stocks, Institutional Buyers of Energy Stocks, Institutional Buyers of REITs,  Directory of Hedge Fund Managers and Who’s Who in Investment Management.

In early 1998, capital was raised and staff hired to begin the transition to an Internet-based, constantly updated capital markets database. Bigdough was officially launched in December 1998.

In February 1999, IDC printed its last directory and formally began the corporate transition to bigdough.com.inc, the company's new formal name.