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 aggregating 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, wherein the algorithm comprises combining the accessed recommendations after applying weights to the accessed recommendations that are defined in the team rules for both positive and negative recommendations for each of the research providers on the research team; and reporting the team recommendation to the client node.