LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- WallStreet Research™, a leading independent analyst research firm focusing on the small and micro-cap marketplace, announced today that it will hold The Southern California Investment Forum (SCIF) on Tuesday, October 4th at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach, CA and Wednesday, October 5th at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. The event will present a strong group of selected emerging companies to an audience of pre-qualified investment professionals, analysts, portfolio and hedge fund managers, top brokers, accredited investors and high net-worth individuals. For more information on the event and schedule please visit www.SouthernCaliforniaInvestmentForum.com.

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Mr. Alan Stone, Managing Director of WallStreet Research™ and event organizer commented: "We are pleased to expand our strong and long-standing California presence with this prominent new SCIF series of investor meetings. We have lined up several newly discovered companies from the region, including Voice Assist VSST, a cloud-based speech recognition technology leader from Lake Forest, CA, Highland Business Services HGLB, a digital services provider based in San Clemente, CA, Capital Art (Pink Sheet: CAPA), a photographic vault company located in Los Angeles, Fortune Oil and Gas, a private resource play headquartered in Houston, TX, Century Tangibles Group (CT Group), a private rare coin and bullion investment firm based in Irvine, CA and eLocalListing.com, a lead generation solutions provider from Temecula, CA."

Mr. Stone continued: "Sponsored by Brentwood News, Westside Today and PR Newswire, our event is gaining wide media recognition in Southern California, resulting in CEO interviews by Jeff Hall, a publisher of several local community newspapers, as well as other media coverage."

The Southern California Investment Forum is a part of ongoing nationwide road show and conference activities organized by WallStreet Research™, an affiliate of Alan Stone & Company, LLC. The firm has been active in California for over twenty years, running investor meetings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Newport Beach, and San Diego with clients listed on NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ, OTC, TSX and other foreign exchanges. With offices and staff in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and Palm Beach, FL, WallStreet Research™ is also the host of a prominent annual investor conference held in New York City. For information on the next WallStreet Research™ Small Cap Conference on November 15-16th please visit www.SmallCapConference.org. WSR is today ranked NUMBER ONE on the Google, Yahoo, and Bing search engines, and its Small Cap Conferences are also ranked NUMBER ONE on the search engines. For more information please review a recent Opportunist Magazine article at www.opportunistmagazine.com/alan-stone-thinking-small-to-win-big-name.

Please register at www.SouthernCaliforniaInvestmentForum.com to arrange SCIF admission, which is complimentary only to qualified investment professionals such as fund managers, retail brokers, security analysts, media members and accredited investors who are pre-registered and approved.

About WallStreet Research™

WallStreet Research™ (www.WallStreetResearch.org) is a prominent research boutique led by Alan Stone, Managing Director of Alan Stone & Company, LLC (ASC). The firm specializes in the micro-cap and small-cap investment arena, seeking emerging growth companies with strong management, unique or proprietary technology, significant market potential, financial strength and outstanding long-term earnings growth possibilities. Mr. Stone was previously a senior analyst and assistant portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch Asset Management (now known as BlackRock), overseeing one of the largest mutual funds in high yield bonds and small cap equities, a senior analyst at the Prudential Capital Markets Group, involved in private placements and an investment banker at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. specializing at IPOs, private placements and institutional brokerage. He was also the Director of the American Stock Exchange Security Analysts Forum and AMEX CLUB® in Southern California. Mr. Stone is a cum-laude economics graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, with a high honors MBA in finance from New York University. He also completed additional studies in politics and economics at the London School of Economics. More information on WSR is available at www.WallStreetResearch.org.

This information is not to be construed as an offer to sell, nor a solicitation of an offer to purchase, any securities referred to herein or otherwise.

Contact:
WallStreet Research
Alan Stone, 310-444-3940
Managing Director
AStone@AlanStone.com
Steve Pollack, 212-949-1496
www.AlanStone.com
www.WallStreetResearch.org
www.SmallCapConference.org
www.SouthernCaliforniaInvestmentForum.com

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