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The Halo Effect Takes the glow off some of the most popular business books of the last two decades with an intelligently critical view of methodology.             Two weeks ago I pulled “Good to Great” by Jim Collins off my shelf and began reading. An inspiring book about companies that had chugged…

I recently chaired a breakfast meeting on the future of trading with three key figures from the industry: John Serocold, Director, London Investment Banking Association; Wolfgang Eholzer, Head of Trading Systems Design, Eurex; and Eli Lederman, Managing Director, Electronic and Agency Trading Services, Morgan Stanley.  I thought you might be interested in their views, so…

I recently chaired a breakfast meeting on the future of trading with three key figures from the industry: John Serocold, Director, London Investment Banking Association; Wolfgang Eholzer, Head of Trading Systems Design, Eurex; and Eli Lederman, Managing Director, Electronic and Agency Trading Services, Morgan Stanley.  I thought you might be interested in their views, so…

World renowned experts will be speaking at Quantitative Modeling & Financial Market Dynamics , to be held from 4-8 pm Oct. 31 at 7city Learning, 55 Broad Street. This first annual QuantDay event will be hosted by Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), in conjunction with Wilmott magazine, 7city Learning and Quantstar. Speakers at the QuantDay event…

World renowned experts will be speaking at Quantitative Modeling & Financial Market Dynamics , to be held from 4-8 pm Oct. 31 at 7city Learning, 55 Broad Street. This first annual QuantDay event will be hosted by Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), in conjunction with Wilmott magazine, 7city Learning and Quantstar. Speakers at the QuantDay event…

We've had a long summer of discontent in the financial markets, with the run on Northern Rock in the UK being one of the biggest banking scandals (the last bank run was over a century ago in Britain). So it is interesting to hear the breaking news story from the BBC today that Virgin may…

Funny how things come together as yesterday I noted RBS´s recruitment fair in Second Life and then I sat in a presentation from Deutsche Bank on Second Life. Actually, it was a presentation on how to emulate the bank experience in real life in Second Life, which is what Michael Tirpitz, Marketing Director, set out…

Funny how things come together as yesterday I noted RBS´s recruitment fair in Second Life and then I sat in a presentation from Deutsche Bank on Second Life. Actually, it was a presentation on how to emulate the bank experience in real life in Second Life, which is what Michael Tirpitz, Marketing Director, set out…

Funny how things come together as yesterday I noted RBS´s recruitment fair in Second Life and then I sat in a presentation from Deutsche Bank on Second Life. Actually, it was a presentation on how to emulate the bank experience in real life in Second Life, which is what Michael Tirpitz, Marketing Director, set out…

Funny how things come together as yesterday I noted RBS´s recruitment fair in Second Life and then I sat in a presentation from Deutsche Bank on Second Life. Actually, it was a presentation on how to emulate the bank experience in real life in Second Life, which is what Michael Tirpitz, Marketing Director, set out…