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BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Palmeri & Carter	American Funds' Dilemma Will too much growth make the mutual fund firm a victim of its own success?
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Amey Stone	How Banks Pretty Up The Profit Picture Playing with loan-loss reserves can produce deceiving earnings. Investors who assume the profits are humming and decide to buy bank stocks could be in for a shock.
The Motley Fool February 7, 2005 Rich Smith	Budget Brokers' Battle Discount brokers left and right are bidding against each other in an auction to purchase investors' trading loyalty. And the best part is that all the prices are being bid down, not up.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Jon Beyman	Dear CIO... What projects or issues should be on every CIO's priority list for 2005 -- and why? The chief of operations and technology at Lehman Brothers, as well as an executive vice president, offers his views.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Reg NMS Tops the CIO Agenda The regulation to modernize the National Market System is shaping up as the single most important issue that chief information officers of buy-side and sell-side firms will focus on in 2005.
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 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 February 4, 2005 Jim Middlemiss	Setting Sights on China When the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. was looking for a place to set up a round-the-clock corporate-actions center in South Asia, it undertook an exhaustive evaluation of possible sites.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Larry Tabb	Risk in a Real-Time World The world is getting riskier. Not only has geopolitical strife changed compliance risk, but new trading, governance and capital-allocation mechanisms are changing traditional risk measures as well.
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.
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