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InternetNews June 23, 2005 Roy Mark	Study Says Tech Flunks Diversity Test Racial minorities are significantly underrepresented in IT workforce and the percentage of women in the IT workplace is declining.
Wall Street & Technology March 21, 2006	Consumers to Foot Compliance Bill? The securities industry's cost of compliance has nearly doubled over the past three years, and costs may be passed on to investors through higher prices and fewer choices.
Financial Planning August 1, 2006 Lynn Hume	The Bond Buyer The Bond Market Association and the SIA have voted to merge the two groups and form the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. The merger is designed to create a more powerful voice in the legislative and regulatory arenas as well as in the financial markets.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Halah Touryalai	Our Diversity Problem Is there rampant discrimination on Wall Street or is it just a few bad apples giving the industry a bad name? Either way, the industry's efforts to hire -- and promote -- women and minorities have not produced impressive results.
Fast Company Christina Farr	Twitter Hires A New Diversity Chief From Apple Twitter has hired Apple's Jeffery Siminoff, a former vice president of diversity and inclusion, in a bid to meet its goals for a more diverse workforce.
Managed Care March 2004	IOM: Workforce Diversity Lacking In Health Care The report -- "In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce" -- points out that the health care workforce does not mirror the rest of society's move toward greater ethnic and racial diversity.
Registered Rep. June 15, 2004 John Churchill	Wall Street's Profits, Jobs, Compensation Are On the Rise Wall Street had its third best year ever in 2003, and 2004 is shaping up to be at least as good, according to the Securities Industry Association.
Registered Rep. July 30, 2003 Will Leitch	Securities Industry Registers Slight Employment Uptick Securities firms have begun adding employees again, according to statistics from the Securities Industry Association and the Labor Dept.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Twitter Made Its Diversity Goals Public, But They Aren't Very Drastic Twitter matched Pinterest's effort on Friday, when it announced its own goals to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities at the company.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006 Kristen French	Help Wanted Securities Industry employment topped the 800,000 mark in November for the first time since February 2002.
Fast Company September 2003 Fast Company	Affirmative Action, Deciphered On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on two related cases that, together, posed possibly the most important legal test of affirmative-action strategies since the Alan Bakke decision in 1978.
Entrepreneur October 2007 Mark Henricks	In the Mix How to attract - and keep - a diverse management team.
Registered Rep. May 6, 2003 Ross Tucker	Wall Street Employment: Worst Market Ever? Yup. It's bad out there. The securities industry has lost a record number of jobs, according to a recent report from the Securities Industry Association. But as a percentage of total jobs, the 1973-1974 bloodletting was worse.
Registered Rep. September 16, 2004 Will Leitch	SIA Reports Big Drop in Second-Quarter Profits In its Research Report for the second quarter of 2004, the Securities Industry Association announced that profits for brokerage firms were 61.2 percent lower than in the second quarter of 2003.
Fast Company Lydia Dishman	Apple Releases New Diversity Numbers, Shows Incremental Improvement A new snapshot of Apple's diversity numbers makes clear that the global innovator still has work to do, despite improvements made to diversify its ranks.
Registered Rep. December 10, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Securities Revenues Fall in Third Quarter Securities firms showed profits of $3.0 billion in the third quarter of 2003, a 45 percent decline from the second quarter, according to the Securities Industry Association. A significant drop in trading revenue was responsible for the profit hit.
Fast Company Marisa Kabas	Minority Leaders On What Intel's $300 Million Pledge Will Mean To Tech Diversity Is investing a large sum of money the answer to more ethnic and gender diversity?
Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Maria Santos	Fast Facts According to the Securities Industry Association's 2004 Investor Survey, nine out of 10 investors are "very" or "somewhat" satisfied with the service provided by their investment professional.
Job Journal November 4, 2007 Rich Heintz	The State of Diversity Success with diversity requires effectiveness from all people in the organization.
Registered Rep. September 3, 2002	SIA: Sky Has Fallen, Recovery in 2003? According to the Securities Industry Association's recent report, the securities industry's profits continue to dive.
Job Journal January 4, 2009 Harriet Hankin	The Strength of Our Diversity Socially and economically, California's rich mix of cultural differences is as good as gold.
U.S. Banker May 2010 Alan Kline	Human Resources: The Business Case For Diversity Royal Bank of Canada is proving that developing a multicultural workforce is not just good policy, it s good for the bottom line.
Job Journal February 21, 2010 Hollister & Babcock	A Time of Monumental Change Profound changes in the American workplace were triggered by Affirmative Action.
Chemistry World August 15, 2013 Julia Higgins	Diversity: leading the way The Royal Society, funded by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, and in parallel with the Royal Academy of Engineering's diversity scheme, has set out a program to address diversity in science. For many of us, the word diversity raises the gender question.
Chemistry World August 22, 2013 Geri Richmond	Science unlimited Every country in the world is facing serious challenges that require a strong and innovative scientific workforce. Developing that robust workforce requires talented individuals from all segments of society, with a diversity of views and competencies, skills and insights.
Registered Rep. August 30, 2002 Betsy Riley	Reps' Earnings Suffered Double-Digit Loss in 2001 The SIA surveyed 34 member-firms, finding a drop in broker earnings and a move toward fee-based business models.
AFP eWire May 12, 2008	Mixed Results on Growth in Foundation Diversity A new report reveals that foundation diversity has increased significantly in some areas, including board and staff composition, but there continues to be problems in others, such as funding to diverse organizations.
Job Journal February 25, 2007 Bob Rosner	Working Wounded: Harnessing Diversity How organizations can build on their diverse workforce.
CFO July 15, 2011 Marielle Segarra	Taking the Next Step Women who want to advance to the top spot in finance often need a sponsor. Here's why.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2006 Kristen French	Compliance Costs: Double the Trouble In a study conducted in February of this year, the SIA found that annual industrywide compliance costs have nearly doubled in the past three years -- to $25 billion in 2005 from $13 billion in 2002, or 5% of the industry's annual net revenues.
Fast Company J.J. McCorvey	Intel Launches Investment Fund For Startups Led By Women And Minorities The Intel Capital Diversity Fund will invest $125 million over the next five years in businesses led by women and underrepresented minorities.
AFP eWire January 8, 2007	U.S. Charities Employ 7.2 Percent of Workforce A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Studies shows that the U.S. paid charitable workforce has grown significantly faster than the economy over the past several years and now represents 7.2% of the overall workforce.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2006 Cory Levine	BCP Testing Continues The securities industry successfully completed Phase 2 of its business continuity planning (BCP) test on Oct. 15, organized and conducted as part of the continued effort to assess the resilience of securities markets.
Registered Rep. January 8, 2003 Ross Tucker	SIA Urges No Change to Branch Office Definition The SIA has expressed serious concerns over proposed changes by the NYSE and SEC that would alter the qualifications by which a broker/dealer office is considered a branch office.
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Tom Keene	Tom Keene's EconoChat Tom talks with senior economist Drew Matus of UBS Securities on changes in the American workforce
CFO June 1, 2007 Julia Homer	The Diversity Gap Most finance departments are conspicuously white. Changing that is not a priority for most CFOs.
InternetNews May 6, 2005	Microsoft Changes Stand on Gay Issues Company-wide memo from CEO lays out why Microsoft is switching its support for gay rights legislation.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2006 John Churchill	Earnings Hangover Predicted in 2007 With only a month left in 2006, Wall Street's second-most profitable year ever, celebrants might be wise to party hard and sober up fast -- the earnings forecast for 2007 is a substantial 23% lower.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2001 Tonya Vinas	Trade Secrets Securities analysts face increasing pressure to disclose investments, compensation ties...
Registered Rep. May 1, 2004	Cutting the Pace of Cost-Cutting New numbers from the Securities Industry Association suggest that cost-reduction efforts are easing.
CFO June 1, 2007 Alix Nyberg Stuart	Gap Analysis Why diversity programs work better for women than for minorities seeking careers in finance.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2005	By the Numbers Top 10 Broker/Dealers, by Advisor Headcount: Merrill Lynch... Wachovia... Smith Barney... Morgan Stanley... etc.
IndustryWeek September 1, 2008 Adrienne Selko	The Business Case for Diversity Far from being just another feel-good initiative, diversity in the workforce has become a competitive advantage for manufacturers.
Registered Rep. November 10, 2005 David A. Geracioti	News From the SIA Meeting The top executives of the nation's biggest securities firms gathered at their annual meeting and declared that 2005 will go down as one of the industry's best years ever.
U.S. Banker October 2010 Bonnie McGeer	No Consensus on Inclusion Women favor as a goal diversity at regulatory agencies and the financial institutions they oversee, but some question whether the government should be involved.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Mar/Apr 2007 Stephanie Bell	Come Together A commercial real estate professional works to open doors for minorities in the industry.
InternetNews November 17, 2005 David Needle	Consumer Products Driving Chip Sales The worldwide market for semiconductors is expected to reach record sales levels for the next several years, thanks in large part to consumer demand for smarter and more media-savvy gadgets.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Twitter Engineering SVP Alex Roetter On Diversity: "We Have Blind Spots" CEO Jack Dorsey pledged to make diversity a company-wide goal.
Investment Advisor April 2007 Kara P. Stapleton	News & Products Mary Schapiro, NASD Chairman and CEO, announced that the regulatory consolidation between NASD and NYSE Member Regulation is on track... Securities America, Inc. launched a new Assistant of the Year program... etc.
National Real Estate Investor June 11, 2003 Parke Chapman	Moody's: Chicago Tops List of Economically Diverse Cities Chicago came out on top in a new Moody's survey on the economic diversity of U.S cities, scoring a 95.1 out of a possible 100. The score means that Chicago's economy perfectly matches the components of the national economy.