In the original article Mr. Bernstein focused on four areas where he expects to see substantial change: indexing, benchmarking, long only equity management, and
soft dollar research.
In 1992 he was asked by the Financial VP and head of Wachovia Bank's Trust Department to provide
soft dollar research to Wachovia.
Not exact matches
Cowen offers fully compliant
soft -
dollar and commissions sharing management and access to independent
research and brokerage services.
Prior to joining iShares, he was Director of Global Sales for Capital Institutional Services (CAPIS) in Dallas and spent seven years at UBS Investment Bank in NY, where he was Head of Alternative
Research Provider Marketing Sales and Global Head of
Soft Dollar and Directed Commissions Sales.
The botanists will pay up to half of the value of the debt in
dollars, and in return they will get the full value of the debt paid back to them in
soft local currency, doubling the money available for botanical
research in Madagascar.
Advisers that use
soft dollars agree to pay higher commissions to broker - dealers to execute its trades in exchange for things like Bloomberg terminals and
research databases, things that the adviser could choose to pay out of its own pocket, but rarely does.
The Fund has no sales load (a charge for purchasing the fund), no
soft -
dollar arrangements (where fund managers receive
research, data terminals and other benefits in return for paying higher commissions to brokers), no trailing fees (where funds pay brokerages an ongoing percentage of assets in order to bring business to the fund), and no 12b - 1 marketing fees (where shareholders pay an amount over and above management and operating expenses, so that funds can advertise and attract new shareholders).
Handled commissions paid towards
Research and
Soft Dollar commitments.