SEC Sues Hub's Richard Syron
Boston Herald - December 17, 2011
by Jerry Kronenberg

However, insiders have previously said Fannie and Freddie executives felt pressured by Congress to buy up subprime mortgages in a bid to promote more low-income lending.

But such explanations don’t fly with mortgage-securities expert Janet Tavakoli. “To say ‘Congress made me do it’ is no excuse,” she said. “These people were not hired to be crash-test dummies (for Congress). They were very well paid to do their jobs.”

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Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. She is the author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 2001), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

Janet Tavakoli's book on the global financial meltdown is Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (Wiley 2009).

Clients of Tavakoli Structured Finance have the benefit of proprietary consultation, which is not available in any other paid or public forum. Clients also commission proprietary research and analysis.

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