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Entries tagged "risk"

The search for normalcy

The papers Tuesday seem to disagree about whether we have reached a new normal.


The WSJ tries to fix our mistakes

A Wall Street Journal column is another of a seemingly endless number of attempts to apply behavioral finance to personal finance.


Taleb says the darnedest things

Nassim Taleb appearing on MSNBC disparages Wall Street quants by calling them autistic.


University of Chicago's Douglas Baird on the risks of transferring risk

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....


Bernanke has an eye for the big picture

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. ...


Virgin Media tunes out sale, for now

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...



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Loan-to-buy

Paulson's proposal to purchase an equity stake in Yellow Pages publisher Idearc is the second time in recent months an investor group has used its prepetition debt position to execute a bargain price 'exit LBO.'


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Managing your shareholder base

Growth companies and their PE sponsors should be wary of the pitfalls that arise when they layer on tiers of preferred stock.


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Easing the stress of distressed M&A

Corporate buyers face numerous complexities when trying to identify the right moment to purchase a distressed asset.



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