Join The Boston Security Analysts Society and Norbury Financial for a panel discussion on Research Management in Today’s Regulatory Environment, Wall Street's Fahrenheit 451:
Moderated by:
David Quirk, Managing Consultant, Citisoft

Panelists:
Dan Dykens, CEO, Norbury Financial
Julio Gomez, Global Head of Research, Financial Insights
Sean O’Malley, Partner, Goodwin Procter, LLP

Panel Discussion Topic:
The confluence of technological innovation and increased regulatory constraints has had a profound impact on the way Wall Street operates. Regulation FD and Global Settlement have had serious repercussions on how information is discovered and disseminated. Shrinking sell-side analyst coverage precipitated by technology’s disintermediation of the sell-side trading function and heightened regulatory scrutiny has had a dramatic effect on the flow of actionable information and the buy-side’s research process.

Panelists will discuss the past, present and future of research and regulation,as well as information management in the investment industry. Topics to be discussed include:


Evaporation on coverage of thousands of public companies

Impaired access to management

Propagation of unwanted e-mail

Negative impact on productivity and performance



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About the Moderator & Panelists:

At Citisoft, Mr. Quirk provides advisory services, including strategy and selection of technology solutions, to investment management firms.

Mr. Dykens co-founded Norbury Financial, whose flagship software centralizes and indexes internal and external financial research for easy retrieval and cross referencing.

At Financial Insights, Mr. Gomez is responsible for all aspects of market research and consulting across geographies and segments. He is widely known as the founder and CEO of Gomez, Inc., a leader in Internet quality-measurement services.

Mr. O'Malley focuses his practice on investment management, broker-dealer and other financial services matters, including securities trading, fund distribution, hedge fund compliance, financial services merger and acquisition transactions and regulatory compliance.