15 Jul 2008

Wipe out Fannie Mae Equity and profit handsomely!

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Anyone who still has doubts about the ability of the authorities to deal with the fall-out from the sub-prime credit crisis would have been ...
9 Jul 2008

Does the FSA have the right priorities?

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We were recently trying to find the site where the FSA publishes the Disclosure Reports about Short Positions in the shares of companies tha...
30 Jun 2008

Compensation: what now for cash vs stock split?

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Some recent commentators have predicted that in the future the Securities Industry will pay a higher proportion of total compensation in the...
28 Feb 2008

Kerviel Case: Where has all the money gone?

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In all the excitement about the huge losses made by Soc Gen's Monsieur Kerviel and the bank's management one thing never gets menti...
18 Feb 2008

Northern Rock - two key questions that need to be answered

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The first question - and it has hardly been receiving attention in all the discussions of the Northern Rock saga that we are aware of - is t...
4 Feb 2008

Non-Dom Taxes - Nail in the Coffin for London's City?

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Ill-conceived taxes were instrumental in the development of the Eurocurrency and bond markets during the late 1960s and early 1970s. First t...
10 Nov 2007

Exit 'Fred the Shred'- Character traits in Chief Executives

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We have never personally met Fred Goodwin but reading an article about him we were reminded that many corporate disasters happened under th...
25 Oct 2007

To Quant or not to Quant?

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Yesterday's Financial Times carried a polemical piece by Nassim Taleb. In it he derided the use of mathematical models and called the so...
4 Oct 2007

Bonus Fears: Not as bad as the headlines make believe

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Some newspaper headlines predict massive job losses and a substantial drop in bonuses for financial market professionals this year. Apart fr...
3 Apr 2007

Lessons from a Boat Race - Or how to make teams work better together

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Can business leaders really learn from a study in which the Cambridge University boat club has been observed at work during seven-months per...