completed my M.B.A. My first full-time job was as a securities analyst at Kuhn Loeb. I specialized in the health and
retail field, and I stayed there for two years. I found that, on Wall Street, the best way to receive a pay increase was
to change jobs. The company you work for never wants to pay you as much as a company trying to recruit you.
I left for XYZ in 1972.1 want to leave out the firm's name and other particulars for reasons that will soon
become obvious. This proved to be one of the most difficult periods in my life and career. XYZ had thirty analysts,
divided into three subgroups often. Because the research director didn't want to work, he had one of the senior
analysts of each group review the work of the analysts. The policy was that our research reports would be circulated
and critiqued by the other analysts within the subgroups prior to being sent out.
I had written a bearish report on hospital management stocks, saying that the industry would eventually go to
a utility rate of return. As part of the normal routine, the draft was circulated among the other analysts, one of whom
got drunk one night on a flight home from California and told a client about my report. He even sent him a copy of
the report in progress. What right did he have to send out my work? The stocks began plummeting prior to the
report's release, because the client started spreading rumors that a negative report was about to be issued.
It was a bitter experience. I had to testify for six hours before the New York Stock Exchange. My company's
counsel told me, "We will represent you, but should our interests diverge at any point, we will inform you."
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