Financial Services >> Sector Roundtables >> February 24, 2003
MARK L. CONSTANT is Senior Vice President and Senior Equity
Research Analyst of brokers and asset managers at Lehman
Brothers. He is a member of the Institutional Investor magazine
'All-America' Equity Research Team, garnering the highest
attribute scores for stock selection and
accessibility/responsiveness among ranked analysts in the brokers
and asset managers category, in the most recent poll. He has also
ranked four times among the 'Best on the Street' in The Wall
Street Journal's annual Analysts Survey. In last year's contest,
he placed number one in both stock picking and earnings
forecasting, among all of the qualifying analysts in the
securities brokerage sector. He has been a featured guest on
several CNBC and CNN television shows, Bloomberg TV and Radio,
etc., and is frequently cited in publications such as The Wall
Street Journal, Barron's, The Financial Times, The New York
Times, Forbes, Institutional Investor, Business Week and The Wall
Street Transcript, etc. He is a member of the Association for
Investment Management and Research, as well as the Security
Analysts of San Francisco. He came to Lehman Brothers in 1999
after spending eight years at Merrill Lynch.. He received his
Bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University, where he
is now a regular guest speaker at the Graduate School of
Business. Profile
JEFFERY HARTE is an Associate Director-Equity Research with
Sandler O'Neill & Partners, LP. His research coverage includes
broker-dealer and asset management companies. Mr. Harte joined
Sandler during 2002 from ABN AMRO, where he was a Vice President
providing equity research coverage of the same industry sectors.
Prior to joining ABN AMRO, Mr. Harte was a research analyst at
PaineWebber. Mr. Harte holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from
the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Master of Business
Administration in Finance from DePaul University. Profile
DANIEL GOLDBERG is an Associate Director at Bear, Stearns & Co.
covering the brokers, asset managers and financial technology
industries. He joined Bear Stearns in January 2000 after six
years at Ernst &Young LLP, where he was an Audit Manager in the
Financial Services Group. He is a licensed Certified Public
Accountant and a graduate of The George Washington University
School of Business and Public Management where he earned a
Bachelor of Accountancy. Profile
TWST: Mark, could we start out with your view on where thebrokerage industry stands at this point with regard to getting
out from under the settlement issues?
Mr. Constant: The settlement