"We oppose any requirement that firms publicly disclose their fail positions, " wrote Gerard Citera, the executive director of U.S. equities at UBS Securities, in his letter on Sept. 22.
Private equity operators start to do deals in an active new issue market for debt securities and equities.
So far this year, investors have been pouring money into U.S. debt securities and not equities.
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Seth Setrakian, co-head of U.S. equities at First New York Securities, offers a slightly different take from a more short-term perspective.
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Seth Setrakian, co-head of U.S. equities at First New York Securities, says the indication that a deal is likely may be enough to keep the market trending higher into year-end.
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Seth Setrakian, co-head of equities at First New York Securities, thinks Tuesday could turn out to be the biggest day of the quarter for the market, in part thanks to the lead-in of the previous two sessions.
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There could be a provision that the mix of equities and fixed-income securities in each account would change over time: As one got older, the portion of funds invested in fixed-income instruments, such as bonds, would increase, thereby reducing stock market exposure.
By now almost all Europe's insurers have moved much of their investment out of equities and into fixed-income securities.
Its institutional securities division, including equities, was embroiled in a management upheaval that has only recently begun to settle down, but not before a wave of defections.
Under the so-called 5-3-3-2 rule, applied by both the finance ministry and the health ministry, half the pension-fund investments had to be in assets (such as bonds) where return of the principal was guaranteed, not more than 30% in domestic equities, 30% in foreign securities and 20% in property.
In retrospect, the rally in equities and the dip in fixed-income securities might come to be seen as a brief burst of euphoria.
Seth Setrakian, co-head of U.S. equities at proprietary trading firm First New York Securities, says however you trade Apple it is critical to stay disciplined.
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He says that several factors, such as the arrival of private pension funds and the declining attractiveness of government securities, will increase demand for equities over the next two or three years.
Seth Setrakian, co-head of U.S. equities at proprietary trading firm First New York Securities, said his expectation was for a Romney rally or an Obama drop post-election in an interview Monday, but warned that such a move would be short-term oriented.
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She wants to put America's securities law, which governs trading in equities and bonds, on a footing similar to that of corporate law, which regulates relations between managers and shareholders.
Carlyle filed plans for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission in September amid rocky equities markets that stalled other launches.
Vikram Pandit, head of institutional securities, and John Havens, head of equities, also quit, prompting speculation that an avalanche of executive departures would follow.
Morgan Stanley has been under siege since a senior management reshuffle in late March that resulted in the departures of several star bankers, including Vikram Pandit , head of the institutional securities unit, John Havens , head of equities, and Joseph Perella , a key rainmaker.
We have been at zero percent since December 16, 2008 with recreated bubbles in commodities and equities with the housing bubble still deflating and with toxic mortgage securities still sloshing around the banking system.
The tendency has been for market participants to move into so-called risk assets such as equities and many commodities on days when they are exiting Treasury securities and the dollar weakens as a result.
For years Mr Tose has been telling anybody who cared to listen that the future of investment banking in Asia lay not, as in the past, with equities, but rather, with the issuing and trading of debt securities for Asian corporate customers.
Perella and Meguid have not said where they are headed, but they, along with Stephan Newhouse Stephan Newhouse , who quit as Morgan Stanley president two weeks ago, Vikram Pandit Vikram Pandit , former head of institutional securities, John Havens John Havens , former head of equities, and Guru Ramakrishnan Guru Ramakrishnan , head of trading, are likely to attract multiple offers, executive recruiters say.
These are the biggest securities and derivatives markets in Brazil, more hotly traded than equities.
"A rate cut would have been a sentiment booster, and now in the short term we expect a selloff in equities, " said Rajesh Samtani, a fund manager at Anand Rathi Securities.
Also, there may have been some rotation lately into equities from so-called safe havens, including U.S. Treasury securities, said John Person, president of NationalFutures.com.
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The best price in equities markets does not always lead to the best returns, according to Pragma Securities which analyzes markets and prices for a living.
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They cannot bear to risk such capital losses again, so they stay away from equities and over-weight their portfolios with Treasury bonds and other conventional fixed income securities where they naively believe they cannot lose principal.
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Bernanke referred to the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program to buy Treasury securities as a successful measure in stimulating long-term interest rates and raising the prices of equities, while also emphasizing that the practice does not really constitute government spending, as the Fed is not purchasing goods and services.
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