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A Rare Look Inside Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Apr 16, 2008 @ 03:23 PM By Cristina McEachern,

It’s very rare that a big buy side firm wants to talk about their trading technology projects, let alone grant full access to an entire team of people working on a large-scale trading renovation.

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Time to End Wall Street IT's Boom and Bust Cycle?

Apr 14, 2008 @ 12:59 PM By Ivy Schmerken,

With investment banks reporting layoffs and tightening their belts in light of the economic downturn, one of the major themes emerging in IT circles is sustainable cost reduction. “The industry does carry a lot of cost,” says Bob Gach, global managing director capital markets at Accenture in New York. “The industry hasn’t had the courage or need to attack these costs,” says Gach.

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Treasury's Plan for Regulatory Overhaul Annoints the Fed As Wall Street's Supercop

Apr 8, 2008 @ 01:49 PM By Ivy Schmerken,

As Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s plan to overhaul financial market regulation makes its way through Washington, the question is how could this impact broker dealers, asset managers and hedge funds. Would there be less regulation for the sake of global competitiveness as some opponents contend? And which entity would oversee the opaque world of OTC derivatives?

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R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management (New York)
Roy Niederhoffer
President and Founder

You have to rotate your models more rapidly today than you used to. Models that used to work have stopped working with greater rapidity lately. I think that this probably represents the entrance of a large number of players into the hedge fund space in ... More >>