In Brief: Top Mortgage Trader For Nomura Resigns

Andrew Friedwald, a top trader of mortgage-backed securities for Nomura Securities International, resigned Wednesday following a dispute over strategy, traders said.

They said Mr. Friedwald wanted to build Nomura's position in fixed- income securities when spreads widened recently to their widest levels of the decade, but the firm would not give him the authority.

The firm had been reducing fixed-income holdings for the last year, the traders said.

Mr. Friedwald, who ran the mortgage-backed derivatives trading desk, joined the firm in June 1995, the company said in announcing the resignation.

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