Activity Quote by Mary Schapiro

They really can’t afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can’t afford to do research for five customers who won’t generate a lot…

— Peter Cundill

“Just because brokerages disclose a convoluted web of profiteering doesn’t mean it’s appropriate. It just means they are hiding these questionable practices in plain…

— Christopher Manske

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

— Celia Green

It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Consider this true story, related by John Donohue, a law professor who in 2001 was teaching at Stanford University: "I was just about to…

— Anonymous

Lack of compliance is hindering the investigation.

— Charlie Melancon

The speculator is not an investor.

— Edwin Lefevre

“risks therein must be assumed by someone. * There is intelligent speculation as there is intelligent investing. But there are many ways in which…

— Benjamin Graham

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

— Daniel Kahneman

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

— Ben Bernanke

“Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. For some reason the whole business”

— Peter Lynch

Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a…

— Peter Diamandis