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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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
Wall Street & Technology March 26, 2004 Larry Tabb	NYSE: Fast Market or No Market? If the NYSE becomes more electronic, its owners (the specialists and floor brokers) will be disadvantaged, and possibly jobless.
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 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 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.
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 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.
Bank Technology News September 2004 Michael Sisk	Trading: Direct Execution Goes Mainstream The need to offer direct execution is all the greater now that the New York Stock Exchange is pushing ahead with it's Direct Plus program.
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.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2010 Dan Caplinger	The Best Way to Buy Stocks Is one broker really that much better than another?
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Anthony Guerra	Hard Times for Soft Dollars Changes to soft dollar practices are of interest to both sides of the Street since the tightening of the SEC's safe harbor clause -- which details what may be paid for with soft dollars -- will require the buy side to shell out hard dollars for more goods and services.
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 August 17, 2007 Richard Jones	Broker-Neutral OMS/EMS Solution Can Address Rapid Change In Investment Industry The investment industry is experiencing an increasingly rapid pace of change in both the asset classes under management and the way in which they are traded.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Why Government "Help" Could Become Your Next Nightmare The government wants brokers and other financial professionals to act in their clients' best interest, but if you're a client, you might well be much happier keeping things exactly the way they are now.
The Motley Fool July 19, 2007 Emil Lee	For Richer or for Interactive Broker Interactive Broker shares could make you richer. Investors, the company has a credible track record of growth, profitability, and high returns on capital.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2011 Dan Caplinger	What You Really Need From Your Broker Don't obsess about the wrong things. Stick with what's important.
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2007	Electronic Trading Boom Spurs Spending on Advanced Trading Technology The rapid growth in electronic execution of institutional equities trades will spur U.S. capital markets participants to spend $860 million on advanced trading technology this year, and spending will reach $1.3 billion by 2010, according to a new report.
Wall Street & Technology February 27, 2005 Larry Tabb	The NYSE Floor: A Question of Control What is it about the floor - the history, the frenzy, the money, the legacy? Whatever it is, the NYSE floor, as it stands today, is under threat - and not just from dissatisfied institutional investors, but also from market restructuring proposals
The Motley Fool August 30, 2010 Dan Caplinger	Who You Trade With Does Matter It's easy to think that one broker fits all, but nothing could be further from the truth. Take the time to get to know your brokerage options. Only then will you have the knowledge base to make your best choice.
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.
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?
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 David Weiss	Living with Reg SHO The new regulation opened up the possibility of completing a short sale without worrying if it complied with the uptick or bid test, and put into affect rules requiring greater effort on the part of brokers and other participants in the securities industry to ensure that short sales were covered.
Registered Rep. May 28, 2010 Jake Zamansky	Wall Street Will (Again) Kill The Passage of a Fiduciary Standard While the House financial reform bill includes a fiduciary standard for brokers in limited circumstances, I'm fairly certain history will repeat itself and the provision will mysteriously and entirely disappear when the House and Senate reconcile their respective bills.
Registered Rep. November 3, 2004	Broker or Advisor---Who Knows the Difference? More than half of American investors look to brokers for more than just transactional assistance, according to new research, which also finds that investors don't understand the differences between brokers and registered investment advisors.
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.
On Wall Street December 1, 2009 Mark Astarita	Brokers as Fiduciaries -- Much Ado About Nothing There is a battle cry to place a fiduciary obligation on retail brokers. But the real question is: What difference will it really make?
The Motley Fool January 29, 2009 Dayana Yochim	Invest Now, Save $125 When opening a brokerage account, you can make sure that more of your money gets invested, and less gets gobbled up by transaction costs.
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.
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).
The Motley Fool November 24, 2010 Dan Caplinger	Get What You Want From Your Broker Rather than imposing a one-rule-fits-all approach to fiduciary duty, what the SEC should do is give customers the ultimate choice when it comes to deciding what relationship they want with their brokers.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2004 Mindy Diamond	Prospects Grim for Wirehouse Brokers with Hybrid Books of Business Hybrid brokers -- those with both retail and midmarket institutional accounts-- at wirehouses might soon be a thing of the past, but that doesn't mean those with this business model have no options.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Dan Caplinger	A Surprising Way to Improve Your Investing When you're looking for a doctor or a lawyer, you focus not just on professional qualifications and expertise, but you also want someone who will fit well with your personality. The same holds true with picking a broker.
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?
Registered Rep. November 30, 2005 Kristen French	Wachovia Shaves Payout, Levels Charges on In-House and Outside SMAs After simplifying it's payout structure earlier this year, Wachovia Securities announced that it would make some more tweaks in 2006 and raise ticket charges on some in-house money-management products to match those of third-party products.
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Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 Mindy Diamond	What About Your Retirement? Brokers often take a shortsighted view of their careers, and this usually turns an effort to convince them to think about their own retirements into an uphill battle.
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Larry Tabb	Providing Service in an Increasingly Electronic World The way in which brokers traditionally manage their relationships with the buy side needs to change.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2004 Mindy Diamond	Packing the Parachute Success in the brokerage industry can be as much about mindset as anything else, so it comes as little surprise that advisors avoid negative thoughts, such as the potential necessity of a quick exit from their practice.