Walking the tight rope

Well I just don't get it,' moaned Jerry as he took another swig of his beer. 'One day we're told that we should ferret around for every little snippet of information we can lay our hands on, the next we have a lecture on the dangers of portfolio managers being privy to inside information. I mean how the heck are we supposed to strike the right balance?' We were in a bar off Wall Street and Jerry had just finished another 'hard day' in his induction program for a leading US institution. He