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Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Attracting Order Flow Given the amount of trading activity hedge funds generate, competition for their order flow is heating up.
Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Want an Algorithm With That? Major brokerage houses are franchising their algorithmic trading strategies to smaller firms that are feeling pressure to offer the service.
The Motley Fool May 19, 2008 Saibal Saha	"Sell" Is a 4-Letter Word Wall Street analysts hate to put down stocks, but praising everything doesn't help either. Merrill Lynch is taking steps to change the system.
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Broker Research: What's It Worth? The securities industry is hoping that the SEC will clear up the uncertainties surrounding soft dollars and determine once and for all who is responsible for placing a value on proprietary research.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Jessica Pallay	The Buy Side Buys In In 2006, it will be impossible to ignore the enhanced productivity gained from algorithmic trading systems. As the buy side takes control of its own trading processes, automated trading frees up humans to focus on more-complex trading decisions.
Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Kerry Massaro	From The Editor: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Is the relationship coming to an end? Will we be hearing the big "D" word, or is the relationship between financial firms' buy sides and sell sides just maturing and evolving, as all long-standing relationships do?
The Motley Fool July 13, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Wanted: Wall Street Analysts Are Wall Street analysts, the "sell-side" analysts who work for brokerages, an endangered species? Should you care? For investors expect to see less research available on many smaller companies.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Bringing in Business Attracting hedge funds as customers is a priority this year for the majority of sell-side firms. As hedge funds approach $1 trillion in assets, these non-traditional investment vehicles have become the latest buy-side heavyweight.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Direct-Market-Access Trading The buy side is taking more control of its trading decisions while looking for faster, lower-cost and anonymous executions. Direct market access (DMA) tools permit buy-side traders to access liquidity pools and multiple execution venues directly, without intervention from a broker's trading desk.
HBS Working Knowledge October 18, 2004 Ann Cullen	The Bias of Wall Street Analysts Historically, stock analysts' recommendations have been swayed by business relationships between the analyst's employer and the target company, says Professor Mark Bradshaw. Have recent SEC reforms helped?
Bank Technology News November 2004 Shane Kite	Trading: Direct Execution Players Get Beefy Banks and brokers are stocking up on tech and management tools, bundling direct access with algorithmic trading, as the industry gets more competitive than ever.
Wall Street & Technology May 25, 2005 Larry Tabb	No Touching: Algo Trading Leaps Forward The leaders in the no-touch market are significantly ahead. They have the resources to push the technology out into the market and the support teams to train, customize and drive adoption (while at the same time, buy-side firms are reducing their broker ranks).
Wall Street & Technology March 26, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Regulators Play Hardball with Soft Dollars Buy-side firms are facing more disclosure requirements and possible curtailment of soft-dollar commissions applied to investment technology.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2002 Sam Jaffe	The Search for Clean Research It's clear that clients now know better than to take sell-side research at face value. But, how does a rep make a sale without some "objective" analysis? Where do you find nonconflicted data and analysis on investments to help you decide which to recommend to your clients?
Wall Street & Technology June 29, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Reinventing the Relationship Technology and regulatory scrutiny have placed pressure on the buy-side traders to figure out how much it is paying for executions.
Wall Street & Technology August 27, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Bracing for Disclosure of Soft Dollars The SEC's examination of soft dollars could require money managers to increase disclosure of costs and force the sell side to unbundle its commissions and separately price its research.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2005 Gardner & Hanson	New Year's 2016: The Future Is Now A decade ago, individual investors were just beginning to find their chops. Ten years from now, they'll be some of the shrewdest people on Wall Street. Here's how to make sure you are one of them.
Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	The New Sell-Side Trader: Execution Consultant Brokers are morphing into execution consultants to advise the buy side on selecting algorithms and measuring performance. But how will the sell side reinvent the institutional sales trader?
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Algorithmic Trading Buy-side firms are gravitating toward rules-based systems that are often supplied by brokers. These mathematical models analyze every quote and trade in the stock market, identify liquidity opportunities and turn that information into intelligent trading decisions.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2004 Paul Elliott	How to Beat a Choppy Market In a market like this, there's only way to make real money with stocks. That is to buy where Wall Street isn't looking.
Wall Street & Technology February 15, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Many Buy Siders Are Taking on the Role of Researcher Some buy-side firms have stopped using sell-side research in favor of search applications such as firstRain.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Will Leitch	Indie Research (A Non-Event So Far) When the Wall Street research scandal drew to its close last July, many reps wondered how it would change their lives. In addition to coughing up millions of dollars in fines, the firms agreed to new rules on how sell-side research would be conducted and presented to clients.
The Motley Fool January 19, 2005 Paul Elliott	How to Beat a Choppy Market In a market like this, there's only one way to make real money with stocks. That is to buy where Wall Street isn't looking.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2004 Paul Elliott	How to Beat a Choppy Market In a market like this, there's only one way to make real money with stocks. That is to buy where Wall Street isn't looking.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2005 Paul Elliott	How to Beat a Choppy Market In "One Up on Wall Street," Peter Lynch argues that everyday investors actually have advantages over the typical professional fund jockey. Believe it.
Wall Street & Technology February 21, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Brokers Back CSAs to Help Buy Side Achieve Best Execution and Pay Research Providers In search of best execution, buy-side firms tap brokers' new commission-sharing arrangements to pay for valuable research.
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2005 Larry Tabb	The Sins of the Few The equity research model is not only broken, it is destroyed. In trying to clean up the research process, we have thrown out the baby with the bath water.
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Algorithmic Alliances Buy-side firms take a page from the broker-dealers' book, paying to use their algorithmic-trading strategies via partnerships with order-management systems.
CFO May 1, 2003 Joseph McCafferty	On Closer Examination Reform of sell-side research is creating a variety of new headaches for corporations.
Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006	Communication Overload The ever-growing demand for rich, timely market data -- in conjunction with the speed and ease of modern communications -- has created a situation in which buy-side fund managers are being inundated with information.
Wall Street & Technology July 26, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	The Buy Side Takes Charge Access to aggregators, crossing networks and algorithms is changing the buy-side trading desk.
Wall Street & Technology February 5, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	The Buy Side Jumps on Board the Push to Automate OTC Derivatives Now that traditional buy-side firms and hedge funds are increasingly investing in credit derivatives, the industry is focusing on automating post-trade processes to reduce operational risk.
Wall Street & Technology March 22, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Black-Box Trading Raises Risk As black-box trading increases, hedge funds are executing orders at a rapid pace by drawing on their credit relationships with prime brokers.
Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2005 Larry Tabb	To Have and to Hold Should financial firms spend money either to build or acquire client-facing front ends? Or, do firms stay front-end agnostic, partnering with a few select platforms for greater integration, but allow all others to connect via a FIX connection?
Wall Street & Technology April 15, 2008 Cory Levine	Quod Releases Solution for Buy-Side Execution Management Advanced Smart-Order Router uses the algorithms in Quod's sell-side solution to bring new levels of routing capabilities to the buy side, the vendor says.
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Anthony Guerra	Excellence in Execution Despite the limitations of transaction cost analysis (TCA), most experts agree that trading and TCA now go hand in hand, and the buy-side's growing role in trading means TCA will be important to the sell-side of Wall Street, too.
Insurance & Technology November 12, 2007 Julio Gomez	Rapid Rollout of Services Will Differentiate the Market Technology executives will spend the year retooling for the borderless war that is the new capital markets.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Pre-Trade Analysis Brokers are developing pre-trade analytics in connection with their algorithms to help buy-side customers determine the best algorithms to use.
Wall Street & Technology January 4, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Get With the Program Sell-side desks are giving their buy-side clients access to program-trading tools so they can slice and dice large blocks and measure transaction costs.
Wall Street & Technology November 27, 2007 Robert Hegarty	Expect Continuous Change to Accelerate in 2008 Tower Group's Managing Director for Securities and Investments says to watch for the first major crash of an electronic trading system in 2008 due to volume, speed, and performance issues.
Knowledge@Wharton June 4, 2003	Pump and Dump: Analyst Bias and Corporate Financing A new study by Wharton accounting professor Scott Richardson and two colleagues suggests that, even if most sell-side analysts don't lie, they are so overly upbeat that their forecasts of corporate earnings and stock-price targets are hardly more accurate than falsehoods.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Jessica Pallay	Lamenting Latency "If buy-side firms want to actively trade and aggressively try to execute on their own behalf, they need tools to compete with the brokers who are sitting on the fattest pipes and have the highest-speed technology," says Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of Westborough, Mass.-based The Tabb Group.
Wall Street & Technology June 21, 2004	Algo-Trading Meets Direct Access As buy-side firms take more control over executing orders, there is an increasing interest in algorithmic-trading strategies combined with direct-access trading platforms.
CFO October 1, 2002 Kris Frieswick	Investment Banking: More Bricks in the Wall Regulators are introducing new rules to ensure the objectivity of stock analysts, but what's good for investors could be bad for CFOs.
Wall Street & Technology January 9, 2006 Larry Tabb	Seven Trends for '06 Banking and technology trends for the new year: exchange and market infrastructure redesign... the move toward low-touch services... lagging firms will be forced to rebuild their market data infrastructure... etc.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Julie Gallagher	Data Latency Market-data latency has gotten much attention on the sell side, but like so many other industry issues, the buy side is just now playing catch-up.
Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2005 Anthony Guerra	Follow the Leader The U.K.'s Financial Services Authority (FSA) finally issued its soft-dollar guidelines. Will the SEC take a page out of what the FSA has done? Probably.
Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006	Derivative Confirms for Buy Side Interwoven launched Scrittura BuySide, a new solution for buy-side firms that automates the incoming confirmations process for over-the-counter derivatives.
Wall Street & Technology October 23, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Connectivity Booms in Emerging Markets As demand for investing in emerging and frontier markets picks up, buy- and sell-side firms are hunting for networks and trading systems that allow them to operate in foreign markets without necessarily being experts in the local rules themselves.