BlackRock Is Go-To Firm to Divine Wall Street Assets (Excerpt)
Bloomberg News - May 8, 2009
by Kambiz Foroohar and Sree Vidya Bhaktavaatsalam

“The Federal Reserve and the Treasury would do the world a favor by giving us more transparency on AIG and BearStearns assets, [Janet Tavakoli] says. "The regulators have just given up and are just throwing teh assets with BlackRock and saying 'Manage this.'" (Bloomberg News filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in November asking a federal judge to require teh government to disclose data about the Bear Stearns assets.)

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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), and
Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (John Wiley & Sons January 2009)

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