Barrington Research, located in Chicago, is a full-service investment firm providing research, brokerage, investment banking and asset management services to institutional, corporate and individual clients. Founded in 1983 as an institutional economic and investment research firm, the company has become one of the nationally recognized investment services firm. Its research team provides investment analysis and recommendations on more than 100 companies within 10 industries throughout the United States and is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. Barrington Research offers a variety of investment banking services to private and public small and mid-sized companies as well as professional portfolio management for individual, corporate and institutional clients through its sister company Barrington Asset Management. It also offers services including corporate share repurchases, sale of restricted and control securities, exercise of employee stock options and pension and profit-sharing accounts.