The weight of brokerage research reports thudding on to the average fund manager's desk each trading day is enough to sink a pocket battleship.
So if an analyst wants to get his stuff read he has to do much more than not get his spreadsheets in a tangle.
A snappy title which hooks the fund manager into finding out what the report is all about is becoming de rigueur. It also seems to reflect the cultural life of the analyst in question, which perhaps explains why movie titles feature.
Here's Margin Call's contenders for the research title Oscars:
Oil: Sum of All Fears - An HSBC tome from June 20 on Middle-East tension woes and the effect on where crude was headed.
Four Weddings and No Funeral - A Salomon Smith Barney property note in April on why four land sites going on the block would have a good reception on the market.