Economics Project Abstract
FINANCIAL SPECULATION FOR MONETARY ALLOCATION IN U.S. AND FOREIGN MARKETS
Presenter:
Kent Limson, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, 1500 W. Sullivan Road, Aurora, IL 60506; kenny@imsa.edu
Mentor:
Jim Van de Ven, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, 70 W. Madison, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60602
Abstract:
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & co. (NYSE:MSWD) is a preeminent global financial service firm with well recognized brand names including Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Discover Card, among others. MSDW combines the strength of innovative financial products and services with a powerful distribution capability to individual and institutional clients. MSDW’s products and services include underwritten public offerings of securities, mergers and acquisitions and other financial advisory services, securities sales and trading, research, consumer credit and investment, and asset management services. MSDW’s services and products are provided to a large and diversified group of clients and customers, including corporations, governments, financial institutions and individuals around the world. MSDW maintains leading market positions in each of its three businesses – Securities, Asset Management and Credit Services. I have in essence, worked with MSDW to learn how speculation and market analysis is carried out, along with maintaining client relationship as well as building new ones.