Financial Services >> Analyst Interviews >> October 18, 1999
RAPHAEL SOIFER is a Manager with Brown Brothers Harriman & Company.
Previously, he was associated with Bankers Trust and served in
Washington as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Maritime Affairs. Mr. Soifer is a member of the Advisory Council of
the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation in London, and of the
Bank and Financial Analysts Association in New York. He holds a
Bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an
M.B.A. from Harvard University. Profile
TWST: Ray, what should investors looking at the securities firm stocksbe focusing on at this point in the cycle?
Mr. Soifer: The most important thing now, as ever, is the market itself.
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