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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.
Bank Technology News March 2007 John Adams	Equities: The Science Of Research Investars has entered into a deal with Goldman Sachs in which the Wall Street firm will market a new research and performance measurement product that combines detailed performance metrics, research delivery, and research management tools.
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 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 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 October 3, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Are Analysts Worthless? Are sell-side and buy-side analysts worthless to investors, and what's the difference between the two?
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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
Wall Street & Technology August 27, 2004 Larry Tabb	Independent Aggregation: An Oxymoron Aggregation's time has come, but independent providers have gone. It is technology that the industry needs and brokers can't live without, but does the act of acquiring a platform devalue it?
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.
BusinessWeek August 30, 2004 Amy Borrus	Brokers Aren't Advisers The line between brokers and advisers was clear for decades. But in 1999, the Securities & Exchange Commission blurred that line. Now, to protect investors, the SEC must redraw a clear line.
Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	CIO Challenge As hedge funds soar, winning their order flow has become more vital than ever. To compete for that business, brokers and other providers need to offer hedge fund managers wider access to markets and trading products, and break down silos to improve integration.
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.
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 October 23, 2006 Alex Dumortier	Merrill Brings Home the Bacon The firm's solid third-quarter performance comes as no surprise to investors.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Mindy Diamond	Don't Be Dazzled by Prestige Names But just as Harvard is not the best place for every high school valedictorian, private client groups at Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan are not always the best places for an advisor focused on ultra-high-net-worth clients.
Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2005 Greg MacSweeney	Price Joins TowerGroup Tom Price joined TowerGroup as a senior analyst in its Capital Markets research service.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2006 Dumortier & Khattab	Investment Banks Under the Microscope Investors, which Wall Street firms make the grade? Goldman Sachs... Lehman Brothers... Bear Stearns... Morgan Stanley... Merrill Lynch... etc.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	The Investment Banking Business: Money Management These days, investment banks do much more than just investment banking. In addition to traditional asset management they're getting involved in hedge funds and private equity.
The Motley Fool December 13, 2006 Tom Taulli	Goldman's Profit Explosion Goldman hasn't lost its golden touch, as seen with its end-of-the-year results for 2006. It's tough for individual investors to participate in these areas, but investing in Goldman Sachs is one way to get some exposure to them.
Registered Rep. February 11, 2008 John Churchill	Retail Financial Advisors' Refrain: Let's Kill The Traders Brokers are bitter these days -- and for good reason. Much of their vitriol is aimed at the traders.
Registered Rep. February 2, 2006 Kristen French	Brokers Learning to Play by New Rules It's no longer business as usual on Wall Street. Starting yesterday, broker/dealers must follow a new SEC rule that requires them to disclose at certain times that they may not be acting in their clients' best interest.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Investment Banking: Capital Markets and Proprietary Trading One function of major investment banks is capital markets and proprietary trading. For those who need capital, and those looking for a home for their capital, investment banks function as the middleman.
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.
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.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Kevin Burke	Got Conflicts? A new business model seems to be gaining popularity: retail brokerages spinning off their asset-management businesses but retaining a minority stake.
Registered Rep. October 14, 2010 Kristen French	Merrill Brokers Had "Good Reason" To Leave, And Got $1.2 ml For It Two former Merrill brokers won $1.167 million in an arbitration award from Merrill Lynch for deferred compensation benefits
Registered Rep. October 22, 2002 Rick Weinberg	Merrill to Reps: Go Get 401(k) Business Merrill Lynch advisors are now going to offer participants in Merrill-run retirement plans specific buy and sell recommendations. Indeed, participants may elect to turn over all investment decisions to Merrill advisors.
Financial Planning May 1, 2006 Bob Veres	False Fiduciaries The so-called resolution of the SEC's "Merrill Lynch rule" does nothing to keep brokers from providing financial advice without assuming legal responsibility.
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2005 Cory Levine	Fixed-Income Analytics Merrill Lynch unveiled a new fixed-income analytics and data tool, MLXport, which currently is available to select institutional clients as a download.
Financial Planning July 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad	Chalk One Up for RIAs According to a recent survey, a majority of investors believe stockbrokers and investment advisers owe the same fiduciary responsibilities to their clients.
Wall Street & Technology May 25, 2007 Penny Crosman	Brokerage Firms Are Starting to Use Digital Rights Technology to Protect Their Research Plagiarism by online content vendors and the need to sell research profitably are driving the top brokerage firms to guard their reports with digital right management tools.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2007 Halah Touryalai	Riding High It was a fine year for brokerage firms -- especially their stocks. No one came up bigger than Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in terms of percentage gains.
Wall Street & Technology April 27, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Hedging the Risk of Instant Messaging While hedge funds enjoy the simplicity of trading via IM networks, compliance and reliability concerns have them seeking IM products with built-in archival systems.
Registered Rep. April 28, 2003 Will Leitch	Historic Settlement Doesn't Target Brokers -- But You're Hardly Home Free Now that the Wall Street global settlement is official, brokers might be inclined to heave a sigh of relief. Don't. While the settlement will have a lasting impact on the brokerage industry, brokers have been unscathed by the Spitzer investigations -- so far.
Registered Rep. March 3, 2006 Halah Tourylai	Third Wirehouse Coughs Up Millions In Overtime Cases Yesterday, Morgan Stanley became the third wirehouse, after Merrill Lynch and UBS, to settle class action suits with California brokers over overtime pay in the past seven months -- the second in three weeks.
AFP eWire December 3, 2007	New Bank Philanthropy Fund Has Billion-Dollar Goal A new donor-advised fund started by global investment bank Goldman Sachs has a goal of raising $1 billion over the next several years.
Wall Street & Technology September 18, 2006	EMS Spending Spree Much has been made of the sell side opening its wallet and snatching up trading platform vendors. These acquisitions are an effort by brokers to own and control the trade lifecycle from platform through execution.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Morgan Stanley's Mighty Swing The investment bank knocks results out of the park. Can it last? Investors, take note.
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Goldstein & Thornton	He Fixed the NYSE. Can He Fix Merrill? John Thain won kudos for turning around the Big Board. Now he faces a bigger challenge cleaning up the subprime mess at Merrill Lynch.
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 January 24, 2006 Paul Allen	Trading Gets Exotic As the search for higher returns and diversification has sparked a surge in alternative investments, financial firms are working to establish a technology infrastructure capable of managing an acceptable balance between risk and reward.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2005	Comings & Goings Edward Jones announced in an SEC filing settling... Greg Fullmer, who had been with Goldman Sachs for 11 years... Nick Stonestreet has been promoted by Merrill Lynch... etc.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Will Morgan Stanley Come Back? Investors who thought that the return of John Mack to Morgan Stanley would mean instant and glorious change might be feeling a bit disappointed about now.