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The Spring 2016 Vetr University Challenge results are in!

You read that right! The Vetr University Challenge is officially over, the ratings have been audited, and the results are in!

But before we announce the winners, we want to give a big thank you to all who participated. Without you, this competition would not have been possible, and we hope that you continue to use Vetr and make awesome ratings. Now without further adieu, here are the winners of the Spring 2016 Vetr University Challenge.

Let's start with the extra prizes:

The student who wrote the most stock analyses, winning a $50 Amazon gift card, is Joe Haegele from Cornell University.

The student who referred the most people to Vetr, winning a $50 Amazon gift card, is Ryan Lundeen from the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

The student who earned the most achievements, winning a $100 Amazon gift card, is Jacob Engel from the University of Nebraska, Kearny.

Now for the moment we've all be waiting for, here are the winners of the Spring 2016 Vetr University Challenge:

In third place, winning a $150 Amazon gift card, we have Sergei Banashko from Fordham University who earned 123 points and a 39.66% return.

In second place, winning a $200 Amazon gift card, we have Joe Haegele from Cornell University who earned 124 points and a 44.6% return.

And last and certainly not least, the winner of the Spring 2016 Vetr University Challenge, winning a $250 Amazon gift card and an interview for an internship with Vetr, is Ryan Lundeen from the University of Nebraska, Omaha who earned 125 points and a 48.74% return!

Congratulations to our winners, you can see the full leaderboard here.

We hope you had as much fun as we did following this competition, because we had a blast checking out these impressive stock picks. Its encouraging to see young people getting hands on experience picking stocks as it will give them an opportunity for better financial independence in the future. We hope that the students who participated learned valuable skills through the University Challenge.

Be sure to check out our next University Challenge, because we have something huge in the works!

Thank you and best of luck with finals!

Sincerely, The Vetr Team - Rahul, JD, Zoheb, Santhosh, Patrick, and Mike

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The Top Picks for April have been announced!

Vetr.com, the leading website for displaying target prices, has announced its top picks for April 2016. These top picks are determined by their percent returns, which represent the average returns of a user’s rating for the calendar month of April, regardless of when the rating was entered. D @EazyD13 won the Top Pick Award in the Consumer Cyclical sector with a return of 9.66%, Justin Rabensdorf @soulkarver won the award in the Healthcare sector with a return of 20.93%, Daniel Minton @ intelligenceman won the award in the Technology sector with a return of 11.60%, and last but not least, John Patten @cnjpatten won the Top Rater Award on Vetr overall with a return of 35.75%.

The concept of Vetr is to allow investors to quickly “vet” potential investments. With this new feature, visitors can focus on the recommendations of users who have the best records based on their target prices. Vetr’s Top Raters section showcases who the Top Raters are every month in the Consumer Cyclical Sector, Healthcare Sector, Technology Sector, and on Vetr overall.

Vetr’s Top Rater section will update every month and additional sector raters will be introduced in the following months.

ABOUT VETR

Vetr.com is an investment research platform that provides simplified crowdsourced star-ratings for the stock market and delivers personalized insights and alerts based on the people, stocks and funds you follow. With over 71,00 ratings and counting, Vetr is designed to let investors ‘vet’ their investments by seeing what its users think will happen to a stock’s price.

Contacts

Press Vetr, Inc. Rahul Kaundal, 212-293-2305 [email protected]

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The Top Picks for March have been Announced!

Vetr.com, the leading website for displaying target prices, has announced its top picks for March 2016. These top picks are determined by their percent returns, which represent the average returns of a user’s rating for the calendar month of February, regardless of when the rating was entered. Joe Haegele @JustChartThings won the Top Pick Award in the Consumer Cyclical sector with a return of 11.99%, SS @n400 won the award in the Healthcare sector with a return of 54.28%, Chad Newman @chadnewman won the award in the Technology sector with a return of 17.70%, and last but not least, Matt C @TraderMatt won the Top Rater Award on Vetr overall with a return of 35.81%.

The concept of Vetr is to allow investors to quickly “vet” potential investments. With this new feature, visitors can focus on the recommendations of users who have the best records based on their target prices. Vetr’s Top Raters section showcases who the Top Raters are every month in the Consumer Cyclical Sector, Healthcare Sector, Technology Sector, and on Vetr overall.

Vetr’s Top Rater section will update every month and additional sector raters will be introduced in the following months.

ABOUT VETR

Vetr.com is an investment research platform that provides simplified crowdsourced star-ratings for the stock market and delivers personalized insights and alerts based on the people, stocks and funds you follow. With over 67,500 ratings and counting, Vetr is designed to let investors ‘vet’ their investments by seeing what its users think will happen to a stock’s price.

Contacts

Press Vetr, Inc. Rahul Kaundal, 212-293-2305 [email protected]

#March #Picks #Vetr #Invest #Stocks #Ratings

The Top Picks in February have been announced!

Vetr.com, the leading website for displaying target prices, has announced its top picks for February 2016. These top picks are determined by their percent returns, which represent the average returns of a user’s rating for the calendar month of February, regardless of when the rating was entered. Joe Haegele @JustChartThings won the Top Pick Award in the Consumer Cyclical sector with a return of 12.75%, Helder Castro @HelderCastro won the award in the Healthcare sector with a return of 10.15%, Adam Liebman @aceking719 won the award in the Technology sector with a return of 22.50%, and last but not least, Ted Bak @tedbak won the Top Rater Award on Vetr overall with a return of 26.73%.

The concept of Vetr is to allow investors to quickly “vet” potential investments. With this new feature, visitors can focus on the recommendations of users who have the best records based on their target prices. Vetr’s Top Raters section showcases who the Top Raters are every month in the Consumer Cyclical Sector, Healthcare Sector, Technology Sector, and on Vetr overall.

Vetr’s Top Rater section will update every month and additional sector raters will be introduced in the following months.

ABOUT VETR

Vetr.com is an investment research platform that provides simplified crowdsourced star-ratings for the stock market and delivers personalized insights and alerts based on the people, stocks and funds you follow. With over 64,000 ratings and counting, Vetr is designed to let investors ‘vet’ their investments by seeing what its users think will happen to a stock’s price.

Contacts

Press Vetr, Inc. Rahul Kaundal, 212-293-2305 [email protected]

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Superforecasting, the Wisdom of the Crowd, and Vetr

Over the holiday break, I read a great book. Philip Tetlock’s Superforecasting was released this fall and has powerfully positive implications for Vetr. The book summarizes a study that, in its scientific nature, measured the forecasts of experts and the crowd to determine their accuracy. Many people, including experts like Wall Street analysts, make forecasts that are well covered in the press but are never measured. There are issues with having forecasts be precise enough so they can be measured, but the study underlying Superforecasting shows that some people are better at forecasting than others (hence, “superforecasters”). In fact, generally “experts” like Wall Street analysts forecast no better than random guesses.

Most of the questions in Tetlock’s study relate to political events. There is very little about financial markets. In one spot, Tetlock suggests the financial markets are very efficient because of the constant second-guessing that goes on in them. “It is still very hard to consistently beat markets, which is why so few can plausibly claim to have done it.” He then goes on to discuss “prediction markets,” like “will Hillary be elected President in 2016.” Here, good forecasting teams do better than would be predicted which is the point of that chapter—some forecasting teams are really good. “The results were clear-cut each year. Teams of ordinary forecasters beat the wisdom of the crowd [defined as the average of those participating] by about 10%. Prediction markets beat ordinary teams by about 20%. And superteams beat prediction markets by 15% to 30%.” [If I read this correctly, the markets should beat the crowd average but he doesn’t say this explicitly, and it hasn’t been tested against financial markets from what I could tell.]

So, the good news: By helping discover superforecaster investors, Vetr can provide more insight than so-called Wall Street experts.

So, find the good Vetterers or, even better, become one yourself!

Sincerely,

Patrick Williams, President of Vetr.com

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The Top Stock Raters in December have been announced!

Vetr.com, the leading website for displaying target prices, has announced its winners for December 2015. These winners are determined by their percent returns, which represent the average returns of a user’s rating for the calendar month of December, regardless of when the rating was entered. Anders Haig @srednatonmi won the Top Rater Award in the Consumer Cyclical sector with a return of 5.13%, Michael Odere @Billiebob40 won the award in the Healthcare sector with a return of 9.35%, Nate @Nate won the award in the Technology sector with a return of 15.29%, and last but not least, Serhiy Banashko @Serhity won the Top Rater Award on Vetr overall with a return of 22.25%.

The concept of Vetr is to allow investors to quickly “vet” potential investments. With this new feature, visitors can focus on the recommendations of users who have the best records based on their target prices. Vetr’s Top Raters section showcases who the Top Raters are every month in the Consumer Cyclical Sector, Healthcare Sector, Technology Sector, and on Vetr overall.

Vetr’s Top Rater section will update every month and additional sector raters will be introduced in the following months.

ABOUT VETR

Vetr.com is an investment research platform that provides simplified crowdsourced star-ratings for the stock market and delivers personalized insights and alerts based on the people, stocks and funds you follow. With over 55,000 ratings and counting, Vetr is designed to let investors ‘vet’ their investments by seeing what its users think will happen to a stock’s price.

Contacts

Press Vetr, Inc. Rahul Kaundal, 212-293-2305 [email protected]

#December #Stocks #Invest #Crowd #Rate #Tech #Healthcare #Comsumer #Winner

Crowd Beats Wall Street Analysts in November

Vetr.com, the leading website for displaying target prices, has announced its winners for November 2015. These winners are determined by their percent returns, which represent the average returns of a user’s rating for the calendar month of November, regardless of when the rating was entered. Marla Stout @marlie won the Top Rater Award in the Consumer Cyclical sector with a return of 8.6%, Aspiring Investor @a94027 won the award in the Healthcare sector with a return of 14.42%, Commodities Trader @CommoditiesTrader won the award in the Technology sector with a return of 23.05%, and last but not least, Max Peng @mp3490 won the Top Rater Award on Vetr overall with a return of 24.57%.

The concept of Vetr is to allow investors to quickly “vet” potential investments. With this new feature, visitors can focus on the recommendations of users who have the best records based on their target prices. Vetr’s Top Raters section showcases who the Top Raters are every month in the Consumer Cyclical Sector, Healthcare Sector, Technology Sector, and on Vetr overall.

The most fascinating part about this page is that there are ZERO Wall Street Analysts who are showcased. “These lists are for Vetr’s top raters, period. Analyst or not, if you’re making the right stock picks, you will be noticed.” Said JD Singh, SVP of Business Development at Vetr. “We look forward to seeing whether Wall Street will do any better in December.”

Vetr’s Top Rater section will update every month and additional sector raters will be introduced in the following months.

ABOUT VETR

Vetr.com is an investment research platform that provides simplified crowdsourced star-ratings for the stock market and delivers personalized insights and alerts based on the people, stocks and funds you follow. With over 55,000 ratings and counting, Vetr is designed to let investors ‘vet’ their investments by seeing what its users think will happen to a stock’s price.

Contacts

Press Vetr, Inc. Rahul Kaundal, 212-293-2305 [email protected]

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Two startups want to harness the power of the crowd to disrupt investing and possibly the entire wealth management industry.

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VETR President Patrick William discusses his site and where he believes the ETF industry's next big growth spurt will be

Patrick William, President of Vetr, sat down with us recently at the ETF Boot Camp to discuss his innovative crowd-sourced ETF and stock picking site and where he thinks the next big stage of ETF growth will go.

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Check out our very own Patrick Williams talk about crowd sentiment on CNBC!

#Crowd #CrowdSourced #Investing #Stocks #CNBC #earnings #earnings reports

Vetr Stirs Collegiate Rivalry with Stock Picking Challenge

Students from around the Country Will Compete by Rating Stocks

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Vetr.com has announced its Fall 2015 University Challenge. Students from around the country will use Vetr’s award winning website (www.vetr.com) to rate stocks and determine the collegiate champion of stock picking.

Students will be competing for a whole lot of money’s worth of Amazon gift cards and the grand prize winner will win an internship with Vetr Inc. for winter break. Entrants will be required to enter a target price for 5 stocks or ETFs of their choosing. The students with the most accurate predictions will be the winners.

“This is a great opportunity for students to get hands on experience in investment analysis. The University Challenge is definitely a great idea for any student looking to build their resume and learn more about stocks” says Patrick Williams, CEO of Vetr.

“Last semester, Bernardino Ortiz, from the University of Southern California, won the University Challenge with a portfolio of energy stocks. It will be very interesting to see whose portfolio strategy come out on top this time around” says Rahul Kaundal, marketing analyst at Vetr.

Students can register for the Vetr University Challenge by heading to vetr.com/universitychallenge. The competition is now live and will end on November 18, 2015.

ABOUT VETR

Vetr.com is an investment research platform that provides simplified crowdsourced star-ratings for the stock market and delivers personalized insights and alerts based on the people, stocks and funds you follow. With over 41,000 ratings and counting, Vetr is designed to let investors ‘vet’ their investments by seeing what its users think will happen to a stock’s price.

Press Vetr, Inc. Rahul Kaundal, 212-293-2305 [email protected]

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Vetr is a website where the crowd can determine ratings and stock prices. Patrick Williams, Vetr CEO, joins Closing Bell to discuss.

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CHICAGO, April 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Vetr, the investment research platform, has experienced significant…

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Vetr Wins Big at the Benzinga FinTech Awards

Vetr.com won the award for ‘Best use of the crowd’ at the Benzinga FinTech Awards on April 8, 2015. Vetr is a platform that allows individuals to “vet” investments by aggregating price targets to create simple crowdsourced star ratings. The ‘Best use of the crowd’ category showcased companies that encourage the public to share investment ideas with each other, which Vetr is doing with their crowdsourced star ratings. Other companies nominated in this category included Openfolio, Darwinex, InvestFeed, NVestly, Tip’d Off, Stockfuse, Thinknum, and Estimize. Vetr was among 57 total finalists that attended the event and were nominees for 2 out of the 14 categories available (‘Best use of the crowd’ and ‘Creating Proprietary Data – Best in Class’).

“Best use of the crowd fits Vetr perfectly, the award really speaks for itself,” said Vetr co-founder, Jan van Eck. Vetr’s CEO, Patrick Williams, also commented saying, “Winning this award in front of heavy hitters like Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade, and Microsoft really puts Vetr in a great position to grow. We were up against some very stiff competition”. Over 350 people attended the Benzinga FinTech Awards at Tribeca 360.

The fintech industry covers “innovation within financial services”. Fintech companies with all kinds of different purposes were showcased at the award show from robo advisors to crowd sourced data. Other winners on the night included Betterment, Estimize, and Motif Investing.

Benzinga president, Kyle Bazzy, said that the awards show was filled with the movers and shakers of the financial world. He also said that every company in attendance is allowing the public to gain wealth in an accessible, affordable, and transparent way. This was the first year that the Benzinga Fintech Awards has ever taken place, and they plan on having more award shows in the future.

About Vetr

Vetr is a platform that allows individuals to “vet” investments by aggregating price targets to create simple crowdsourced star ratings. Vetr believes that a platform of crowdsourced ratings and personalized insights helps investors make better decisions than coming through endless amounts of news and data found on traditional investing sites.

Benzinga is a financial media outlet that empowers investors with content that is coveted by Wall Street traders.

SOURCE: Vetr Inc.

Vetr Inc. Patrick Williams, 212-293-2304 [email protected]

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Investors Predict – Where Will Oil Be April 1st

Vetr.com has launched the Vetr Oil Challenge to answer the question “Where do investors think oil will be at the end of March?” Vetr is co-sponsoring this content with ETFTrends.com to start a crowdsourcing contest to predict what the price of oil will be at the end of March 2015. Vetr Inc, is a leading social media finance site that allows individuals to “vet” investments by aggregating ratings from large sample size of sources. The site has over 22,000 ratings and has grown rapidly since its May 2014 launch.

“ETF Trends is a leader in understanding the trends of the markets via ETF flows,” said JD Singh, product manager at Vetr. “It only made sense to team up with Tom Lydon and ETF Trends to uncover the sentiment that individual investors have towards oil prices.” Vetr has made their Oil Challenge easy; individuals can add a rating to predict where the price of oil will be on March 31st, based on the price of WTI Crude.

“We’re excited to find out what the crowd thinks about the fast moving direction of oil,” said Tom Lydon, Founder of ETFTrends.com. “Vetr is doing some very interesting things in social finance and we’re excited to be a part of their Oil Challenge.” Vetr’s most innovative feature is their crowdsourced Star-Ratings. Star ratings are based on the target prices, the most valued data point by investors. The Vetr Oil Challenge brings the crowdsourced method to Crude Oil Futures, helping individuals make better investment decisions.

About Vetr

Vetr is a platform that allows individuals to “vet” investments by aggregating price targets to create simple crowdsourced star ratings. Vetr believes that a platform of crowdsourced ratings and personalized insight helps investors make better decisions than coming through endless amounts of news and data found on traditional investing sites.

ETFTrends.com is one of the most popular ETF related investing websites covering news, trends, innovation, and products in the ETF space.

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Vetr members will now have access to Benzinga's feed of in-depth earnings information.

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