Financial Services >> Analyst Interviews >> October 18, 1999

Securities & Asset Management : Raphael Soifer – Brown Brothers Harriman & Co

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 stocks

be 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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