Entries tagged "risk"
The papers Tuesday seem to disagree about whether we have reached a new normal.
A Wall Street Journal column is another of a seemingly endless number of attempts to apply behavioral finance to personal finance.
Nassim Taleb appearing on MSNBC disparages Wall Street quants by calling them autistic.
Speaking at Crowell & Moring LLPs Credit Default Swaps conference on Thursday, Douglas G. Baird, a professor of law at the University of Chicago, talked about the somewhat problematic nature of the derivatives. "The big risk with credit default swaps is the big difference between the party that holds the risk and the party with control of the underlying asset," Baird said....
Maybe he's moved by the Wyoming scenery, but Ben Bernanke is thinking about switching from portraits to landscapes. The Federal Reserve Board chairman on Friday painted a picture of where he thinks financial regulation should go. ...
The basic M&A mantra says the more bidders, the bigger the sale price. So it’s not surprising that Richard Branson’s Virgin Media Inc. has reportedly postponed its £11.3 billion ($23 billion) auction as financial buyers exit the process in the face of an unstable credit market. The latest word on the street has Blackstone Group LP considering dropping out of the auction. The Blackstone withdrawal would follow the reported departure of TPG, which exited over concerns of Virgin Media’s business model. U.K. paper The Business reported that Blackstone was pondering the exit partly due to concerns it could not...
