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Instinet Allows in The Competition Intermediaries Acceptable at Venerable ATS
...next year, Instinet will debut a system intended for its basket-trading customers – index managers and other quants. The system will replace the traditional Instinet platform on customers' desktops and...
How Barclays Conquered The World
...under management pegged to over 200 global stock indices, San Francisco's BGI is the world's largest index manager. It was also the first, having invented the index fund in 1971...
Behold The Republic
...this month's fascinating Cover Story on Barclays Global Investors. It is a revealing look at how the world's largest index manager distinguishes itself and makes money. John A. Byrne Editor...
ETFs’ Alternative Dream
...prices for ETFs are derived from the prices of component stocks, much like index futures and options. The added liquidity of the cash and derivatives markets puts ETFs among the...
Electronic Calls Back in Spotlight: Will American Markets Remain the Exception?
...markets will continue in the near future. Before the Sept. 11 attacks, for example, the estimated earnings of companies in the S&P 500 stock index were expected to decline by...
Options Bear and Guru
...interest in selling put and call premium has nonetheless continued strong, even though option volatilities (the price that can be collected) are so low. The Nasdaq 100 Trust Volatility Index...
Day Trader Woos Institutional Pros Direct Access Broker Wants Specialists’ Respect
...out trading in New York Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange securities via the Island ECN. That meant Island orders could include all listed stock symbols – including exchange-traded index...
More Options For Traders? A Web-Based View of Options World by Brian O’Connell
...information is all real-time. If a trader wants to get more information on a given company, security, or index, he can conduct historical searches." Howe adds that CrowdLink can be...
No Apologies, Please: Michael Bird, is a country boy with intelligence and determination. He’s...
...Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Salomon Smith Barney. Primex initially plans to trade all of the stocks on the Nasdaq 100 Index and the S&P 100 Index. Later, it plans to...
The Soft-Dollar Critic
...of soft dollar issues. (www.treasury.gov.uk/docs/2001/myners_report0602.html) The Myners Report wasn't exactly greeted with enthusiasm in the U.K. What are the prospects for implementing his proposals over there-much less, over here? Actually,...
