1. A computer-based method for processing and combining investment recommendations from research providers such as stock analysts, comprising: providing a server running a research team management module on a digital communications network; providing identifiers for a set of research providers to a client node linked to the communications network; with the research team management module, generating a research team comprising two or more of the research providers based on selections received from the client node; assigning team rules with the research team management module to the research team defining an algorithm for processing recommendations of research providers on the research team; accessing recommendations of the research providers on the research team for a security; generating a team recommendation for the security by processing the accessed recommendations using the algorithm defined by the team rules; and reporting the team recommendation to the client node.