Sell Side

What Does Sell Side Mean?
The retail brokers and research departments that sell securities and make recommendations for brokerage firms' customers.

Investopedia explains Sell Side
For example, a sell side analyst works for a brokerage firm and provides research to individual investors.

This is the opposite of "buy side".

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