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What do Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase have in common besides making money?
Apparently, they share a keen interest in credit-risk research compiled by Hawaii-based Kamakura Corp.
These firms and other Wall Street financial giants are expected to attend an Oct. 29 invitation-only conference at the Westin New York at Times Square hosted by Kamakura, a risk-management software vendor based in the Manoa Innovation Center.
Approximately 200 Wall Street professionals are expected to attend the conference to hear about the company's latest research, said Kamakura President Don van Deventer.
In September, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. asked Kamakura research director Robert Jarrow and Stanford University professor Darrell Duffie to make a...