In This Issue Cover Story Danse Macabre: The Banking and Brokerage Sectors Reel from Crisis to Crisis
Features Don’t Shoot the Messenger:The Unfair Attack on Fair Value Accounting
Crisis Mode:Modern Porfolio Theory under Pressure
Hive Mind:Organizational Psychology and the Origins of the Financial Crisis
The New You:The Future of Securities Analysis
Departments From theExecutive Director Balancing the Scales
Letters tothe Editor On the first research departments, Harry Markopolos
Hot Zones Plug In and Play:The Current Is Flowing inElectric Grid Investing
Hot Zones Refactoring Research:Analysts and Asset Managers Confront the New Model forInformation
Worldview On the Shores of the Black Sea:Will Romania’sEconomy Sink or Swim?
Careers Wearing Two Hats: Transitioning into the Personal Financial Planning Sector
Careers Breathing Room: Entrepreneurism and HR Outsourcing
Case Study The Ghost of Credit Past: The Specter of the Heilig-Meyers Fiasco Haunts Today’s Failed Lenders
Interview The Great Divide: Talking toLee Cooperman about Buy-Sideand Sell-Side Research
Book Reviews Extending the Canon:New Titles
Final Analysis Two Cartoons
Two Cartoons
by Karl Wimer