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Ponzi Nation Madoff Deserves Lots of Company AIG Is Said to Pay $18.7 Billion to Goldman, SocGen for Swaps The Next Big Dump How the Thundering Herd Faltered and Fell The Reckoning - From Midwest to M.T.A., Pain From Global Gamble A Question for A.I.G.: Where Did the Cash Go? They're Shocked, Shocked About the Mess CDO Cuts Show $1 Trillion Corporate-Debt Bets Toxic Proposed Alternative to (the Various Versions) of the Paulson
Plan Europe Weighs U.S. Bailout Rejection Don't Bet On A Bailout Payday At Freddie
Mac, Chief Discarded Warning Signs Merrill Aims to Raise Billions More More Data on Mortgage Bonds Sought Paulson's
Proposal to Buy Fannie, Freddie Equity"Insane" Fed Casts Scapegoat Net, Snag Cioffi and Tannin How Fair is Fair Value Accounting? Structured Success FGIC Loses $33.4 Million, After Offsetting Writedowns Moody's
Commercial Paper Rating May Be Cut, S&P Says Moody's Stock Suffers Record Plunge on Ratings Error CPDOs Expose Ratings Flaw At Moody's Recession Question Misses the Point Pandit's "Closer to End" Means
No Escaping LBO Loans "Super-senior" CDO
Investors Begin to Flex Their Muscles Dissecting the ACA Downgrade Fed
Says Bear Collateral Includes Loans, "Hedges" Taxpayers May be Liable for Bear Mortgage Rescue Security Capital [Assurance] Defends Termination of Credit Default
Swap Contracts Credit Swaps Thwart Fed's Ease as Debt Costs Surge Citigroup Underwrote $6.9 Billion of Ambac's Most Troubled CDOs RLPC - Fund Selling Adds to Leverage Loan Woes Emperors Should Not Have Rebuffed the Oracle Credit Crisis: Where Was the SEC? Cynical Use of Derivatives Has Left Market in a Pickle Buffett Set to Cash in On Bond Insurers' Woes Credit Rating Firms Seen Holding Back on Bond Insurers Buddy, Could You Spare $15 Billion? Under Review: Ripple Effects of Much Harsher Debt Ratings For Financial Stocks, Is it Another False Bottom? A
Fund Behind Astronomical Losses (Magnetar) Dicey
Deals Done Dirt Cheap: Monolines in Dire Straits
(Clients Only) Wall Street Wizardry Amplified Credit Crisis CDO Battles: Royal Pain Over Who Gets What CDO Cliffhanger (Clients Only) Are You Sure You Made A Fortune Shorting the ABX (or TABX)? Accounting
Can Be Beautiful and Is Merrill's (Earnings Charge)
Number Up? (Clients Only) Barclays, Swiss Re and More on the Credit Crunch - Update (Clients
Only) Derivatives Update (Clients Only) Too Big to Regulate? (Clients Only) Mal de MER - Fourth Quarter (Clients Only) Subprime's Unreported Undertow (Clients Only) Banks' Plan for Big Fund Faces Big Hurdles U.S. Investors Face An Age of Murky Pricing Bear Stearns' Hocus Pocus [Cover Story] Merrill's Mal de MER (Full Report for Clients Only) Market Back to Freewheeling Ways Is Congress Missing the Boat on Credit Raters? Anatomy of A Ratings Downgrade Wall Street Earnings Short on Details [Counterparty Risk] Misfortune's Formula: Structured Credit Ratings The SEC Wants More Answers A Matter of Opinion Next in Line for Subprime Hit: Bonds? AIG Seeks Small Subprime Risk; Others See More [AIG's Phony
Accounting] Hedge Fund Mark to Market Woes Death Bonds: Profiting from Mortality) Subprime Lenders and an FASB Rule Subprime and the Dollar: Is There Really a Link? Wall Street Can't Cage Its Mortgage Monster Can Wall Street Be Trusted to Value Risky CDOs? Ratings Aside, Everyone Knows CDOs are Risky More Subprime Woes To Come Subprime Contagion: Credit Bubble or Credit Babble? Bear Bailout Bad Idea for Hedge Funds Two Big Funds At Bear Stearns Face Shutdown Mortgages Give Wall St. New Worries Bear Stearns' Subprime Bath Due Diligence Key in Avoiding CDO Pitfalls Rating Agencies: Measuring the Measurers "Rating Agencies Issue Opinions" -
Letter in Response to Structured Debt Investments Aimed at US Retail Investors SEC Finalizes Anti-Notching Rule How
S&P
Put the Triple A into CPDO CDOs: Caveat Emptor Warn Structured Finance Experts Bear Stearns' Subprime IPO Bear Stearns Funds to Transfer Subprime-Mortgage Risk with IPO Greater Global Risk Now Than At Time of LTCM As Funds Leverage Up, Fears of Reckoning Rise Credit Suisse Sued Over Losses on Subprime-Loan Bonds Bright Future? - Buy Side Firms Optimistic About New Euros Futures
Contracts Subprime Mortgages: The Predators' Fall Do Not Accept Bolton's Interpretation on Links with Iran Overlapping Subprime Exposure Masks the Risk of CDOs, Moody's
Says Credit Raters Rule The Dangers of Investing in Subprime Debt Subprime Damaged US's Standing as Global Leader in Finance Getting a Handle on CDOs is a Complex Challenge Mortgage Woes Flimsy Excuse for Stock Reversals Buffett Blasts Hedge Fund Fees Nixing the Notching: SEC Proposed Rules for Credit Rating Agencies TSF Comments on SEC Proposed Rules on Rating Agencies Crisis
in Credit Derivatives is Averted - Updated February 7,
2007 Saudi Strides for Structured Finance Leaders Ask, Is New York Moving to London? Primus, Athelon Blaze CDPC Trail for Established Structured
Finance Players Oil Pressure: Fallout from the Iraq Study Group Report Debt Investors' Double Burden Principal Protected Notes Cap Upside, Carry Big Charges Quirkiest Vehicle on the Street Questions Lie Behind CPDO Hype Best Practices Among CDO Managers (Clients Only) Tripped Up by Language Landmines LBO Crystal Ball Investor Spotlight Falls on the Asset Manager 2 Exchanges in Chicago Will Merge The Golden Fleece Award for Optional Integrity Dead Man's Curve [Amaranth Advisors] Fine Print Bites Deutsche Bank in CDS Suit Wall Street Pushes Complex Structured Products...To Individuals Oil and Power: Iran Approach Must Avoid Past Mistakes The Rising Establishment: Women in Credit CDO Survey Under Way (Results Available to Clients and Participants
Only) CME Comments on Debt Securities Rules CDO Industry Braces for Rapid Growth Doubts Plague Risk Management Cleaning Up Derivatives One Trade at a Time Lehman Gets Piece of All the Action (Preferred Credit Default
Swaps) Funds of Funds and Principal Protected Notes Deutsche Could Be Tip of Iceberg The Elusive Income of Synthetic CDOs (Clients only) 2005 After Maths Getting
Rid of Unwanted Leftovers: CDO Equity Calpine Default Jostles the CDO Market New Players, Old Conflicts The
Fourth Dimension (Hoaxy CDO4) Fast-growing CDO Market Suffers First Teething Problems Delphi Defied: How the Credit Derivatives Business is Finding
Ways to Retain its Poise Banks Face Danger in Delphi Commentary: My Favorite Hedge Fund: Part II CDOs: Caveat Emptor S&P
Warns of Derivatives Risk The Billion Dollar Question Merrill and Citigroup Top CDO Field Consider the Full Notional Amount of CDOs When Assessing the
Risks and Rewards Wall Street - Exotic Debt May Pose Risk for Investment Banks CDO Deals This Year May Top $800 Billion York Calling for Cash for a New CDO Fund High
Hopes (IMF gets it wrong on asset securitization. Tavakoli comments.) Bear Stearns Shakes the CDO Honey Pot CDOs Unwind with a Whimper How Investors Can Lower Risk When Choosing a Hedge Fund CDS Market Heightens Profile Derivatives Spread - and Heighten - Risk My Favorite Hedge Fund "Model Monkeys" Lose
Track of Reality The Synthetic CDO Shell Game Bonds Shine as Safe Havens Amid United, GM Woes Risky Strategies Take Toll on Traders Sobering News on CDOs in Moody's Report (Hedge Funds Short BBB) Coping with Credit in a Climate of Default CDOs Can Confuse Bank Managers The Challenge of CDO Squared BIS Stress Tests Structured Finance UK's FSA Concerned About Sloppy Back-Office Work More Accounting Issues at Fannie Mae How Will Bond Market React to Citigroup Trades? Structured Finance: Rating the Rating Agencies In With the In Crowd (Hedge Funds, Geithner, and Tavakoli) STRUCTURED CREDIT: The Trials of Tranching CDO Arrangers' Correlation Books Fannie Mae: Key Questions Set to Shed Light on Lender Fannie's Raines Feels Heat as Stocks Slump Profile: Banc of America Securities Fees / Money for Nothing? Dying for 8% a Year Invisible
Hedge Funds (Banks' Trading Desks) Post-Enron, Structured Finance Addiction Hasn't Ebbed Barcap / New CFO Structures Add Up Martha Stewart: The Irony Maiden Hates to Lose Fresh EU Accounting Rules in Jeopardy Ultimate Leverage What Goes on in Vegas Reaches Wall Street Speaking the Right Language: CDO Managers, Mezzanine, and Equity FASB in Error on Options Valuation Derivatives Accounting Reform in Europe Faces End-of-Year Deadline Market-Timing Was Very Good to Michael Sassano Investors Are the Gullible Ones if They Rely on Ratings as Indicators
of Financial Robustness Parmalat Probers Are Likely to Focus on Role of Banks Understanding
the Risk in Structured Deals: A Large Part of "Super
Senior" Isn't "AAA" CDO Evolution Creates New World of Risk Buyer Beware Landesbanken: even lower rating may be in order Cover Story - Why These Folks Mean Business (Sarbanes-Oxley) FIN 46 Interview Currency Convertibility Protection: The Forgotten Credit Derivative Fast Growing Sector Hits Unlikely Roadblock (Cash High Yield
CDOs) Hedge Funds Face SEC Oversight Want Good Numbers? Watch Your Language Tough Times Continue at Freddie Mac Freddie Report Highlights New CEO's Questionable Role Freddie Mac Report Soft Pedals Thorny Case FIN 46 May Result in 'Courting' of Hedge Funds Freddie Hides in the Hedges Raising the Bar on Off-Balance Sheet Finance Cracking Correlation - Credit Default Swaps Freddie Mac Takes On Full House of Derivatives Concentration of Firms Handling Freddie Mac Derivatives Causes
Concern Book Debates Racing Deal A Mysterious World Credit Derivatives Former WestLB Banker Tavakoli Starts Credit Derivatives Firm |
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Janet
Tavakoli, President:
jt@tavakolistructuredfinance.com
Tel: (312) 540-0243 |