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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 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 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 February 14, 2006 Paul Allen	Prime Time for Primes Once an esoteric business controlled by three players, the prime brokerage business has become a hotbed of competition as rival banks and brokers have sought to profit from the hedge fund explosion.
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 27, 2005 Jonathan Beyman	Dear CIO... The author is chief of operations and technology at Lehman Brothers, as well as an executive vice president. In addition, Beyman has served as the firm's CIO since 2000.
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The Motley Fool September 27, 2006 Alex Dumortier	Lessons From Amaranth There's a lot to learn from the hedge fund's prodigious collapse. Amaranth's stunning demonstration of the speed with which a hedge fund can come undone will certainly have cooled investor enthusiasm for other such offerings.
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Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Neil O'Hara	Dearth of Easy Pickings? Now that retail investors are able to partake of hedge funds in unprecedented numbers, some are calling hedge investing a bubble about to be popped... Largest SEC Registered Funds of Funds... Hedge Fund Index Performance...
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Wall Street & Technology March 22, 2005 Jonathan Beyman	Dear CIO... The chief of operations and technology at Lehman Brothers discusses data latency issues, which are a concern for institutional traders.
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.
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Knowledge@Wharton February 26, 2003	The Perils of Hedge Fund Regulation Hedge fund products are increasingly available to a broader audience than previously had access to this asset class. A barrage of news reports focused on hedge fund fraud and blowups raises the idea that regulation might provide a useful fix. So should hedge funds be regulated? No.
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005 Justin Hibbard	Options Trading Grows Up Electronic systems are making the market more efficient and alluring to investors.
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HBS Working Knowledge October 6, 2003 D. Quinn Mills	The Problem with Hedge Funds Hedge funds are the New Big Thing -- and that's bad for the average investor, says professor D. Quinn Mills. An excerpt from Wheel, Deal, and Steal.
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Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 Dave Tsujimoto	In Defense of Hedge Funds Here's why any rep with high-net-worth clients ought to become familiar with the nuances of hedge funds.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2005 Maria Santos	The Cost of Compliance The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has come under scrutiny again following the adoption of a recent rule regarding hedge funds.
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Registered Rep. February 20, 2006 Kevin Burke	MFS Chairman Blasts Hedge Funds at NICSA Confab The chairman of fund complex MFS Investment Management is calling for the formation of a task force to overhaul performance reporting for hedge funds.
Financial Planning February 1, 2005 Kristen French	Hedge Funds' Surprising Appeal Independent broker-dealers are adding them at a time when the funds' returns are declining.
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.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Savita Iyer	Transatlantic Teachers Hedge funds are big news in the U.S., but old news in Europe. What can we learn from Europe's approach to hedge funds?
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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.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Steve Savage	Consider the Alternatives Think twice before pitching hedge funds and private equity to your financial advisory clients.
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