She is a vice president of one of the largest investment-management firms in the country, and at work she lobbies hard for insurance benefits for mental illness.

Her father is a partner in W. H. Reaves & Company, an investment-management firm in Jersey City.

Although Salomon Brothers is not an investment-management firm, it hopes that institutions using its indexes will end up doing their trading through the firm.

Sanford C. Bernstein was founded by Zalman Bernstein in 1967 as an investment-management firm for private clients.

By the end of the 1970s the Boston Company became the United States' 15th largest investment-management firm.

Mrs. Kelly, 25, is an international account administrator at Scudder, Stevens & Clark, an investment-management firm in New York.

Mr. Einhorn, 24, is an associate at Siegler, Collery & Company, and investment-management firm in New York.

Her father is a managing director of J.& W. Seligman & Company, an investment-management firm in New York.

British regulators were criticized for failing to detect irregularities at the investment-management firms accused of having played a central role in the Robert Maxwell scandal.

He is on the board of trustees of the mutual funds managed by Ariel Investments, a Chicago-based investment-management firm.