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Selected
News Archive - News, Quotes, and Articles
Fed
Casts Scapegoat Net, Snag Cioffi and Tannin
Bloomberg News - June 25, 2008
How Fair is Fair-Value Accounting?
Forbes - June 25, 2008
>>
VIDEO - Bond Insurer's, Ratings, SEC, Investigations
Business News Network BNN - June 24, 2008
Structured Success
University of Chicago Magazine - May/June 2008
FGIC Loses
$33.4 Million, After Offsetting Writedowns
Bloomberg - May 23, 2008
Moody's Commercial Paper Rating May Be Cut, S&P Says
Bloomberg - May 22, 2008
Moody's Stock Suffers Record Plunge on Ratings Error
Reuters - May 21, 2008
CPDOs Expose Ratings Flaw At Moody's
Financial Times - May 20, 2008
>>VIDEO:
MBIA Damaged and Does Not Deserve AAA Rating
Bloomberg - May 12, 2008
Recession Question Misses the Point
Fortune - April 30, 2008
Pandit's "Closer to End" Means No Escaping LBO Loans
Bloomberg News - April 29, 2008
"Super-senior"
CDO Investors
Begin to Flex Their Muscles
Financial
Times - April 15, 2008
Dissecting the ACA Downgrade
Business Week - April 14, 2008
Fed Says Bear Collateral Includes
Loans, "Hedges"
Bloomberg
News - April 3, 2008
Busted! Mortgage Meltdown (Check listings for broadcast times)
CNN
- Special Investigation - March 28, 29, 30 2008
>>VIDEO: Q2 Consumer Credit, Investment Bank Write-Downs, Housing
Market
CNBC - March 28, 2008
Taxpayers May be Liable for Bear Mortgage Rescue
Bloomberg News - March 24, 2008
Security Capital [Assurance] Defends Termination of Credit Default
Swap Contracts
Bloomberg News - March 20, 2008
Credit Swaps Thwart Fed's Ease as Debt Costs Surge
Bloomberg News - March 6, 2008
Citigroup
Underwrote $6.9 Billion of Ambac's Most Troubled CDOs
Bloomberg
News - February 28, 2008
RLPC - Fund Selling Adds to Leverage Loan Woes
Reuters/Forbes.com - February 7, 2008
Emperors
Should Not Have Rebuffed the Oracle
Tavakoli
Structured Finance - February
14, 2008
Credit
Crisis: Where Was the SEC?
Forbes.com - February
6, 2008
>>VIDEO -
Monoline Downgrades and CDO Underwriters
Bloomberg Television - February 5, 2008
Cynical
Use of Derivatives Has Left Market in a Pickle
Financial Times- January
31, 2008
Credit
Rating Firms Seen Holding Back on Bond Insurers
Reuters - January
30, 2008
Buddy,
Could You Spare $15 Billion?
The Economist - January
26, 2008
» VIDEO -
Bond Insurance: Fraud and Cancelling CDS Contracts
CNBC's Squawk Box - January 25, 2008
Under
Review: Ripple Effects of Much Harsher Debt Ratings
Wall Street Journal - January
18, 2008
» VIDEO -
Merrill's Disclosure
CNBC's Squawk Box - January 17, 2008
For
Financial Stocks, Is it Another False Bottom?
Wall Street Journal - January
16, 2008
A Fund Behind
Astronomical Losses
Wall Street Journal - January
14,
2008
» VIDEO -
Financial Sector Earnings and Disclosure
First Business Morning News - January
9,
2008
» VIDEO -
Financial Guarantors in Trouble Due to Subprime Loans
and CDOs
CNBC's Squawk Box - January
7,
2008
Dicey
Deals Done Dirt Cheap: Monolines in Dire Straits [Subprime Exposure (Clients
Only)]
Tavakoli Structured Finance - January 3,
2008
Wall
Street Wizardry Amplified Credit Crisis (Excerpt)
Wall Street Journal - Page One - December
27,
2007
CDO
Battles: Royal Pain Over Who Gets What (Excerpt)
Wall Street Journal - Page C1 - December
17,
2007
» VIDEO -
Brokers' Outlook
CNBC's Power Lunch - December
12,
2007
CDO
Cliffhanger (Clients
Only)
TSF - November 27, 2007
Are
You Sure You Made A Fortune Shorting the ABX (or TABX)? (Excerpt)
LIPPER HedgeWorld- December 5, 2007
» VIDEO -
Earnings and Accounting (Clients Only)
Bloomberg Television - November
30,
2007
Accounting
Can Be Beautiful and Is
Merrill's (Charge Against Earnings) Number Up?
(Clients
Only)
TSF - November 27, 2007
Deals
with Hedge Funds May Be Helping Merrill Delay Mortgage Losses (Excerpt & Correction)
Wall Street Journal - November 26, 2007
Barclays,
Swiss Re
and More on the Credit Crunch - Update (Clients
Only)
TSF - November 19, 2007
Derivatives
Update (Clients
Only)
TSF - November 17, 2007
AIG
Catches Up (Clients
Only)
TSF - November 7, 2007
Too
Big to Regulate? (Clients Only)
TSF - November 5, 2007
Deals
with Hedge Funds May Be Helping Merrill Delay Mortgage Losses
Wall Street Journal PAGE ONE - November 2, 2007
» VIDEO -
Tavakoli: Merrill Underhedging Since First Quarter
Bloomberg Television - October
25,
2007
Mal
de MER - Fourth Quarter
(Clients Only)
TSF - October 25, 2007
» VIDEO -
Merrill's Earnings Report and O'Neal - an Enronesque Problem
CNBC Squawk Box - October
24,
2007
Subprime's Unreported
Undertow (Clients Only)
TSF - October 22, 2007
» VIDEO -
Megafund Bailout
CNBC Squawk Box - October
18,
2007
Banks'
Plan for Big Fund Faces Big Hurdles (Excerpt)
Reuters - October 17, 2007
U.S. Investors Face
An Age of Murky Pricing (PAGE ONE - Excerpt)
Wall Street Journal PAGE ONE - October 12, 2007
Bear Stearns' Hocus
Pocus [Cover Story - Excerpt]
Business
Week - Issue Date: October 22, 2007
Merrill's
Mal de MER (Full Report for Clients
Only)
TSF - October 8, 2007- by Janet
Tavakoli
Market
Back to Freewheeling Ways (Excerpt)
Chicago
Tribune - October 8, 2007
Is
Congress Missing the Boat on Credit Raters? (Excerpt)
Reuters - September 27, 2007
Anatomy
of A Ratings Downgrade
(Excerpt)
Business
Week - Issue Date: October 1, 2007
Wall Street Earnings
Short on Details [Counterparty Risk] (Excerpt)
Fortune
Magazine - September 25, 2007
» VIDEO -
Beyond the Earnings; Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns
CNBC Squawk Box - September
20,
2007
Misfortune's Formula:
Structured Credit Ratings (Excerpt)
HedgeWorld (Reuters) - September 19, 2007 by Janet Tavakoli
» VIDEO -
Rating Agencies and Junk Science: Credit Crunch Cocktail
CNBC Squawk Box - September
11,
2007
The SEC Wants More Answers
(Excerpt)
Business
Week - Issue Date: September 17,
2007
A
Matter of Opinion (Excerpt)
Investment Dealers' Digest - September 10, 2007 (Feature)
Next
in Line for Subprime Hit: Bonds?
Associated Press - September 9,
2007
» VIDEO -
Credit Crunch and ABCP (Clients Only)
BNN Squeeze Play - August
16,
2007
AIG Seeks Small Subprime Risk; Others
See More
(Excerpt)
Wall Street Journal - August 13, 2007
» VIDEO - Bracing
for Regulation with Steve Forbes and Janet Tavakoli
CNBC Squawk Box - August
13,
2007
» VIDEO - Risky
Business
CNBC Squawk Box - August
9,
2007
» VIDEO - Making
the Most of the Market and the Mortgage Lending Ponzi Scheme
CBS Evening News - August
4,
2007
» VIDEO -
Subprime Winners and Losers
CNBC Squawk Box - August
3,
2007
Hedge
Fund Mark to Market Woes (Excerpt)
Greenwich Post- August 3, 2007
» VIDEO - Realty
Check: Falling
Housing Prices, Credit Crunch, C-BASS, MGIC and Radian
CNBC - Realty Check - July 31, 2007
» VIDEO - Credit
Crunch: Bull Market May Have Been Piggish
CBS The Early Show July 30, 2007 and CBS Evening News - July
28,
2007
» VIDEO -
Death Bonds
CNBC Squawk Box - July
23,
2007
Death Bonds: Profiting from Mortality
(Excerpt)
Business Week - Cover Story - Issue
Date: July 30, 2007
Subprime
Lenders and an FASB Rule (Excerpt)
HedgeWorld- July 27, 2007
Subprime: Rating Agencies
Were "Willingly Duped" (Excerpt)
InsideEDGE - July 26, 2007
Subprime
and the Dollar: Is There Really a Link? (Excerpt)
HedgeWorld - July 25, 2007
Wall Street Can't Cage Its Mortgage Monster
LA Times - July 22, 2007
» VIDEO -
Hedge Funds, Subprime Ratings and Fallout
BNN Squeeze Play - July
18,
2007
» VIDEO -
Are Rating Agencies A Good Investment?
CNBC Squawk Box - July
16,
2007
» VIDEO -
Subprime Fallout and Prime Mortgages
First Business Morning News - July
13,
2007
Subprime
Contagion: Credit Bubble or Credit Babble? (Excerpt)
HedgeWorld - June 28, 2007
Bear
Bailout Bad Idea for Hedge Funds (Excerpt)
HedgeWorld Commentary - by Janet Tavakoli - June 28,
2007
» VIDEO - Credit
Rating Agencies, Bear Stearns Bailout
CNBC - June 27, 2007
» VIDEO - How
Now Dow Jones? (Reaction to Bear Stearns' Hedge Fund Bailout)
CBS Evening News - June 23, 2007
» VIDEO -
How
to Avoid a Falling Knife in the Mortgage Market
CNBC Squawk Box - June
21,
2007
» VIDEO -
Bear Stearns' Hedge Funds - Potential Ripple Effects
BNN Squeeze Play - June
20,
2007
» AUDIO - Losses at Bear
Stearns'
Funds
-
Radio
Interviews
NPR and American Public Radio - June
20,
2007
Two
Big Funds At Bear Stearns Face Shutdown (Excerpt)
Wall Street Journal- June
20,
2007
Mortgages Give Wall St. New Worries
(Excerpt)
New York Times - June
19,
2007
This Investment Could Turn Ugly
Business Week - Issue Date: June 18, 2007
Bear Stearns' Subprime
Bath
Business Week online - June 12, 2007
Due Diligence Key in
Avoiding CDO Pitfalls
HedgeWorld.com - June 4, 2007
Rating Agencies: Measuring
the Measurers (Excerpt)
The Economist - June 2-8, 2007
"Rating
Agencies Issue Opinions" - Letter in Response to
"CDO Boom
Masks Subprime Losses, Abetted by S&P, Moody's, Fitch" (Excerpt)
Bloomberg Magazine - (July 2007 Magazine)
Structured
Debt Investments Aimed at US Retail Investors (Excerpt)
Financial Times - May 30, 2007
SEC
Finanalizes Anti-Notching
Rule
LIPPER HedgeWorld - May 29, 2007
How
S&P Put the Triple A into CPDO (Excerpt)
Financial Times - May 14, 2007
CDOs: Caveat Emptor
Warn Structured Finance Experts (Excerpt)
LIPPER HedgeWorld - May 14, 2007
Bear Stearns' Subprime
IPO (Excerpt)
Business Week - May 11, 2007
Bear Stearns
Funds to Transfer Subprime-Mortgage Risk with IPO (Excerpt)
Bloomberg - May 11, 2007
Greater
Global Risk Now Than At Time of LCTM (Excerpt)
Financial
Times - May 7, 2007 - [Letter to Editor] by Janet Tavakoli
As
Funds Leverage Up, Fears of Reckoning Rise (PAGE ONE)
Wall Street Journal PAGE ONE - April 30, 2007
Credit Suisse
Sued Over Losses on Subprime-Loan Bonds
Bloomberg News - April 27, 2007
Bright Future?
- Buy Side Firms Optimistic About New Euros Futures Contracts
Structured Credit Investor - April 17, 2007
Subprime
Mortgages: The Predators' Fall
GARP Risk Review Issue 35 March/April 2007 -
by Janet Tavakoli - Released April 13, 2007
VIDEO:
CNBC: Subprime Borrower Bailout
CNBC - April 12, 2007
Do Not
Accept Bolton's Interpretation on Links with Iran (Excerpt)
Financial Times - April 11, 2007 - [Letter to Editor] by Janet
Tavakoli
Overlapping
Subprime Exposure Masks the Risk of CDOs, Moody's Says (Excerpt)
Bloomberg - April 4, 2007
Credit Raters Rule (Excerpt)
LIPPER HedgeWorld (Reuters) - March 26, 2007
VIDEO:
CNBC "Liar Loans" - Alt A Mortgages
CNBC Realty View - Host Diana Olick and guest Janet Tavakoli
March 21, 2007
The
Dangers of Investing in Subprime Debt
Fortune Magazine [Risk, Washington Monthly]-
by Bethany McLean March 19, 2007
VIDEO: The
Fed's Role and Investment Banks: Subprime Market
First Business Morning News - March 19,
2007
Subprime Damaged
US's Standing as Global Leader in Finance
(Excerpt)
Financial Times [Letter to the Editor] -
March 19, 2007 - by Janet Tavakoli
Getting
a Handle on CDOs is a Complex Challenge
Los Angeles Times - March 18, 2007
VIDEO:
Subprime Implosion
First Business Morning News- March 9,
2007
Mortgage
Woes Flimsy Excuse for Stock Reversals (Excerpt)
Chicago Tribune - March 6,
2007
Buffett Blasts Hedge Fund Fees
(Excerpt)
LIPPER HedgeWorld (Reuters) - March 5, 2007
Nixing the Notching: SEC
Proposed Rules for Credit Rating Agencies (Excerpt)
LIPPER HedgeWorld (Reuters) - February 23, 2007
VIDEO:
CNBC -
Banks
Paring Back on Subprime Loans
CNBC - (Ben Bernanke
and Janet Tavakoli) February 14, 2007
TSF
Comments on SEC Proposed Rules on Rating Agencies
Tavakoli Structured Finance - February 13,
2007 - by Janet
Tavakoli
Crisis in Credit Derivatives
is Averted - Updated February 7, 2007
LIPPER HedgeWorld.com [Reuters] May 2006 Updated Feb. 7,
2007 - by Janet
Tavakoli
VIDEO CNBC -
Opportunistic
Subprime Strategy: Hedge Funds Shorting the ABX
CNBC - January 30, 2007 - Video
Saudi
Strides for Structured Finance
LIPPER HedgeWorld (Reuters) - January 26, 2007
Leaders Ask, Is New
York Moving to London?
LIPPER HedgeWorld (Reuters) - January 23, 2007
Primus, Athelon Blaze
CDPC Trail for Estabilshed Structured Finance Players (Excerpt)
Asset
Securitization Report - January 15, 2007
Credit
Arbitrage Proprietary Outperformance Strategy for 2007 (Clients
Only)
Tavakoli Structured Finance - December
28, 2006
Oil Pressure: Fallout from
the Iraq Study Group Report
LIPPER HedgeWorld - December
14,
2006 by Janet Tavakoli
Debt
Investors' Double Burden
Wall Street Journal - December
12, 2006
Principal Protected Notes Cap Upside,
Carry Big Charges
Wall Street Journal - December
9, 2006
Quirkiest
Vehicle on the Street
Business Week - November
20, 2006
Questions Lie Behind
CPDO Hype
Financial Times - November
14, 2006
Best
Practices Among CDO Managers (Clients Only)
Asset Securitization Report - by Janet Tavakoli - November
7, 2006
Tripped
Up by Language Landmines
Financial Times - November 3, 2006
LBO
Chrystal Ball
TheStreet.com- October 27, 2006
Investor Spotlight Falls on
the Asset Manager (Clients Only)
Financial Times - October
20,
2006
2 Exchanges in Chicago Will Merge (Clients
Only)
New York Times - October
18,
2006
Fine
Print Bites Deutsche Bank in CDS Suit (Clients Only)
TheStreet.com - July 7, 2006
Wall
Street Pushes Complex Structured Products...To Individuals
Wall Street Journal - June 21, 2006
CNBC's
Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo and guest Janet Tavakoli (Excerpt)
CNBC - Structured Products and Retail Investors - June 21, 2006
The
Elusive Income of Synthetic CDOs (Clients only)
Journal of Structured Finance Winter 2006 Volume 11, Number
4 - by Janet Tavakoli
Commentary:
My Favorite Hedge Fund: Part II
LIPPER HedgeWorld [Reuters] - October 24, 2005 -
by Janet Tavakoli
CDOs: Caveat
Emptor
GARP Risk Review September/October 2005
Issue 26 -
by Janet Tavakoli
Consider
the Full Notional Amount of CDOs When Assessing the Risks and
Rewards
Financial Times Letter to the Editor - August
19, 2005 - by Janet Tavakoli
How
Investors Can Lower Risk When Choosing a Hedge Fund
Financial Times - June 8, 2005 -
by Janet Tavakoli
My
Favorite Hedge Fund
LIPPER HedgeWorld - May 26, 2005 - by
Janet Tavakoli
CDOs
Can Confuse Bank Managers
Financial Times - April 26, 2005 by Janet Tavakoli
How
Will Bond Market React to Citigroup Trades?
Financial Times - February 7, 2005
by Janet Tavakoli & FT follow-up on
costs February 12, 2005
Structured
Finance: Rating the Rating Agencies
GARP Risk Review Issue 22 January/February 2005
- by Janet Tavakoli
Invisible
Hedge Funds
GARP Risk Review July/August 2004 Issue 19
- by Janet Tavakoli
Martha
Stewart: The Irony Maiden Hates to Lose
The Yearbook -
July 14, 2004 -
by Janet Tavakoli
CDO
Evolution Creates New World of
Risk
GARP Risk Review November/December
2003 Issue 15 - by Janet Tavakoli
Landesbanken:
even lower rating may be in order
Financial Times - December 1, 2003
Leaders & Letters
- by Janet Tavakoli
Currency
Convertibility Protection: The Forgotten Credit Derivative
Derivatives Week VOL. XII, NO. 41-
October 13, 2003 - by Janet Tavakoli
Book
Debates Racing Deal
Financial Times - June 28, 2003 - includes
an excerpt from Janet Tavakoli's book: Collateralized
Debt Obligations & Structured Finance
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