We recently came across this wonderful explanation of the key actors in the financial markets:  investors, speculators, market makers, and arbitrageurs.  The guts of the explanation appears in minutes 5-20 of the video, and is part of a presentation by Yaron Minsky, head of technology and programming at Jane Street Capital.  Whether you are involved with managing pension assets or not, we hope you enjoy the presentation as much as we did.

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Photo of Richard C. Shea Richard C. Shea

Richard Shea is chair of Covington’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice and is widely regarded as the nation’s leading authority on cash balance, pension equity, and other complex benefit plan designs.  His practice spans the full breadth of activities needed to help…

Richard Shea is chair of Covington’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice and is widely regarded as the nation’s leading authority on cash balance, pension equity, and other complex benefit plan designs.  His practice spans the full breadth of activities needed to help his clients resolve novel, sensitive, or intractable issues.  His approach focuses on developing important new legal insights and ideas, and then combining them into effective litigation, legislative, regulatory, and benefit design strategies for his clients.

Photo of Robert Newman Robert Newman

Robert Newman represents clients ranging from small employers to some of the nation’s largest employers, including for-profit and tax-exempt entities.  His practice includes designing, drafting, and amending a wide range of retirement plans (including 401(k) plans, ESOPs, and traditional and hybrid defined benefit…

Robert Newman represents clients ranging from small employers to some of the nation’s largest employers, including for-profit and tax-exempt entities.  His practice includes designing, drafting, and amending a wide range of retirement plans (including 401(k) plans, ESOPs, and traditional and hybrid defined benefit plans) and welfare plans (including health, severance, and cafeteria plans); creating executive compensation arrangements including nonqualified deferred compensation plans, stock option plans, and other incentive plans; representing clients before the IRS and the Department of Labor; assisting clients with legislative initiatives; providing benefits expertise in corporate transactions and ERISA litigation; counseling clients with respect to pension fund investments in private equity funds and hedge funds; and negotiating and writing employment agreements.