28 Nov 2008

Alan Greenspan - long on Words, short on Insight

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That is what he produced for years, and Media and Investors were hanging on his every uttering. It went so far that the gullible Commentaria...

Alan Greenspan - long on Words, short on Insight

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That is what he produced for years, and Media and Investors were hanging on his every uttering. It went so far that the gullible Commentaria...
26 Nov 2008

Rating Agencies - only radical reform will do

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An interesting interview with the CEO of Assured Guaranty (Bankstocks.com, 24 Nov 2008) reminded me that - despite all the hot air from regu...
22 Nov 2008

Paulson as market indicator

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Paulson - A Bumbling Giant - every time he speaks it seems to pay to short the market

Dangers of Derivatives

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Martin Mayer wrote this article in 1999 and it shows that the risks associates with derivatives was not only foreseen by Warren Buffet. Now...
19 Nov 2008

Iceland to get $10 Billion in bail-Out loans - who is to benefit?

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Only four weeks ago we learned - already in disbelief about that number - that the IMF would give a $2 Billion bail-out package to Iceland. ...
10 Nov 2008

Hats off to Peter Wuffli

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We salute Peter Wuffli at UBS for turning down a Sfr 12 million bonus entitlement out of solidarity with the bank's staff and shareholde...
27 Oct 2008

Lack of Disclosure

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'There's clearly not enough disclosure to show if [the policymakers] are approaching the problem in a systematic manner or are playi...

Values in Banking

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'Banks must rediscover their Victorian values' (William Rees-Mogg, The Times , 27 Oct 2008)

100% retention bonuses for Brokers

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It seems strange that BofA is ready to offer substantial retention bonuses for the retail brokers at Merrill Lynch . Apart from the image-p...