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Cambridge’s Eric Schwartz looks into the future of independent broker-dealer industry

Predicts next market downturn will usher in new era of big broker-dealer mergers

Eric Schwartz, founder, chairman and CEO of Cambridge Investment Research Inc., is one of the brightest guys in the securities business. One of the most unassuming, too.
He started a predecessor to Cambridge in the 1980s but struggled with it due to its focus on selling foundering oil and gas partn

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