1.   And Westdeutsche Landesbank of Duesseldorf owns West Merchant Bank Ltd., a London advisory firm for privatizations and mergers.

2.   Anestis left Guilford and started an investment advisory firm, still consulting with railroads and negotiating right of way leases with telecommunications companies.

3.   At his death he was a member of the advisory board of Train, Smith Counsel, a New York investment advisory firm.

4.   Bankers Trust, which itself has been on the acquisition trail, buying James D. Wolfensohn Inc., an advisory firm, last year and then Alex.

5.   Batchelder, whose advisory firm is in an adjoining suite, provides financial acumen to Relational.

6.   A commodity trading advisory firm in Normal, Illinois.

7.   A reorganization plan proposed by the Student Loan Marketing Association won the endorsement of Institutional Shareholders Services Inc., an independent shareholder advisory firm.

8.   According to International Strategy and Investment, an investment advisory firm, the stock market and Christmas sales are inextricably linked.

9.   David Roche, chief strategist for Independent Strategy, a London investment advisory firm, wrote in a recent editorial in the Financial Times that such changes are needed.

10.   Cooper, a managing partner at Zolfo Cooper, a boutique advisory firm for companies in trouble, was the leading candidate to replace Lay.