VIDEO: Tavakoli Says Merrill Underhedging Since First Quarter
Bloomberg Television - October 25, 2007

Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Janet Tavakoli, president of Tavakoli Structured Finance Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Michael McKee from Chicago about Merrill Lynch & Co.'s third-quarter loss reported today.

Note from Janet Tavakoli: I mention an email I sent to O’Neal on Saturday October 6, 2007. I do not know whether he actually received it or the follow-up email I sent, but I did try to give him a heads up that I was going public with an opinion on Monday October 8, 2007. My analysis was based on my analysis of publicly available information.



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)


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