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...ball is now in TD Ameritrade's court, a firm that has been gaining market share in recent years, with its flat $9.99 fee. In 2009, TD Ameritrade's daily average revenue [producing] trades rose 17% while Schwab's fell 2%, said Michael Hecht, an analyst at JMP Securities, in a recent note. "We were the one shop that had simple, straightforward, transparent pricing - one price point for all clients and there's no gimmick to it," says Tomczyk. "Clients don't like it when think they have one price and wind up getting nickeled and dimed to death...
...TRADE's lower pricing will reduce retail brokerage earnings by about 10% and overall earnings by 1 cent a share in fiscal 2011, according to Hecht...
While Kinsley’s performance matures as the play goes on, the portrayal of Bolingbroke by Emily B. Hecht ’11 moves in the opposite direction. Whereas Kinsley is hesitant in the opening exchanges, Hecht delivers her verse with authority, exuding confidence and manliness. As the play progresses, Bolingbroke also becomes a more complex character—though, compared to Richard’s, this transformation is much less satisfying. Faced with Richard’s defeatism but continuing righteousness, Bolingbroke has no retort. This is less the fault of Hecht than the performance as a whole...
...though the play lends itself to an all-female voice, cast member Emily B. Hecht ’11 says she underwent what she describes as “manliness training” before becoming one of the guys. Hecht, who plays Henry Bolingbroke, laughs while describing her preparation. “Every so often I’ll just glance and try to copy the stance of a man I see on the street,” she says, “without creeping them...
HSC’s approach to the play is equally unique. Says Hecht, “[Our production] keeps a reverence for the material but also explodes it. And tears it open to look at with these new eyes.” We could be wrong, but isn’t that what (s)he said...