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Registered Rep. April 1, 2007 Jennifer Popovec |
How to Get in on High-Yield Real Estate Debt The CRE CDO game is just beginning to open up to individual investors. But beware. CRE CDOs, relatively new high-yield debt vehicles, are only for the truly adventurous.  |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 D. Henry & M. Goldstein |
Citi May Have a New Mess on Its Hands Citibank could take another billion-dollar hit from bad debt tied to the CDO commercial paper market.  |
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 David Henry |
A Chain Reaction in Shaky Debt? As exotic CDOs topple, the impact could ripple through debt markets and wallop more funds and banks.  |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Bernard J. Haddigan |
A Structured Finance Hangover At the height of the commercial real estate market's historic up cycle in 1999, collateralized debt obligations emerged on the scene.  |
BusinessWeek July 9, 2007 Goldstein et al. |
Mutually Assured Mayhem Wall Street is on edge, scrambling to buck up Bear Stearns and avert a domino-effect debacle.  |
Investment Advisor August 2007 Jeff Joseph |
The Far Reach of Subprime Woes Leveraged loans to companies are likely to be adversely affected by hedge fund losses from collateralized debt obligations.  |
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2006 Matt Hudgins |
Why CDOs Are Hot With much of the world's investment capital seeking placement in commercial real estate, lenders are eager to help property owners liquidate portions of their equity and refinance through CDOs.  |
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Subprime Truths and Consequences The continuing credit crunch spotlights the perils of leverage. How should your financial advisory clients respond?  |
BusinessWeek July 23, 2007 Henry & Goldstein |
The Subprime Mess: "It's Just Going To Get Worse" Many more borrowers could default when ARM rates rise.  |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Goldstein & Henry |
Bear Bets Wrong Two Bear Stearns hedge funds soared by specializing in exotic securities and unorthodox practices. Then they imploded and helped set off a global credit market meltdown.  |
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Roben Farzad et al. |
Not So Smart In an era of easy money, financial institutions forgot that the party can't last forever.  |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 Matthew Goldstein |
Wall Street's Next Worry The credit crisis is spreading from Wall Street to a less well known corner of the financial world, that of the bond insurers. An obscure company called ACA Capital might spark the explosion.  |
BusinessWeek November 5, 2007 Matthew Goldstein |
Why Merrill Got Burned So Badly Its leadership role in underwriting risky CDOs brought in millions in fees but put Merrill Lynch in the subprime bull's-eye.  |
BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 David Henry |
How The Bad News Could Get Worse If delinquencies lead to downgrades of mortgage-backed securities, ripples could become waves.  |
The Motley Fool September 26, 2011 Dan Radovsky |
S&P Being Taken to the Woodshed The ratings agency will have to answer the SEC's questions about CDO ratings fiasco.  |
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Emil Lee |
Securitization Simplified Securitization is complicated, but understanding the mechanics will help you evaluate many financial companies. Here is a brief primer on collateralized debt obligations.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Nov/Dec 2006 Gary Mozer |
Greater Access Collateralized debt obligations offer small commercial investors financing options.  |
BusinessWeek August 6, 2007 Roben Farzad |
Let The Blame Begin Everyone played some role in the subprime mess - the Street, lenders, ratings agencies, hedge funds, even homeowners. Where does responsibility lie?  |
BusinessWeek December 20, 2007 |
From CDO to Credit Crunch The Bear Stearns hedge funds became central players in the mortgage mess. Read on to see how.  |
The Motley Fool November 14, 2007 Emil Lee |
Can the Super SIV Save the Day? Bankers from Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Bank of America have reportedly agreed upon the terms and structure of a to-be-raised gigantic fund to help alleviate the funding problems currently plaguing structured investment vehicles.  |
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Der Hovanesian & Goldstein |
Who Will Get Shredded? As the subprime business tanks, the pain is spreading to a wide swath of investors.  |
Wall Street & Technology August 17, 2007 Greg MacSweeney |
Who Will Eventually Foot the Bill for Cleaning Up the CDO and Sub-Prime Mortgage Mess? Once the dust settles, investors should ultimately pay the price for taking risky bets on CDOs.  |
The Motley Fool February 14, 2008 Emil Lee |
Swaps Sink AIG AIG's stock gets pounded as the company ups its loss estimates.  |
BusinessWeek October 1, 2007 David Henry |
Anatomy Of A Ratings Downgrade How S&P and Moody's miscalculated risk on two top-rated pools of mortgage-backed bonds.  |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2007 Goldstein & Henry |
On the Subprime Endangered List Which CEO will be catching subprime heat next now that Citigroup's Chuck Prince is out? Bear Stearns' Jimmy Cayne may be vulnerable.  |
Financial Advisor July 2007 |
Frontline News The Next Five Years... Are CDOs Sneaking Added Risk Into Your Clients' Portfolio?... Therapy Meets Wealth Management... Real Estate Is More Important In A Riskier World, Study Says... etc.  |
Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2007 Penny Crosman |
Can Financial Models Prevent CDO Problems? Computerized financial models help fund managers at Barclays, Mitsubishi and Point Clear make better decisions.  |
Wall Street & Technology November 27, 2007 Greg MacSweeney |
The Fallout From CDOs Will Last Through 2008 Banks' inability to price and measure risk on complex financial products is alarming and needs to be improved to avoid another market meltdown.  |
BusinessWeek November 25, 2009 Spencer E. Ante |
Man of the Meltdown How hedge fund manager John Paulson made billions in the crisis.  |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Another Bank Chokes on Dog Food Wachovia announces $1.1 billion in losses during October from its subprime collateralized debt obligations.  |
HBS Working Knowledge January 20, 2009 Julia Hanna |
Risky Business with Structured Finance Even modest imprecision in estimating underlying risks is magnified disproportionately when securities are pooled and tranched.  |
BusinessWeek September 24, 2007 Matthew Goldstein |
Did Bear Stearns Soft-Pedal The Risks? Investors claim they were misled by Bear Stearns hedge funds' sales managers' assurances.  |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2007 Sham Gad |
E*Trade Bailout Signals Trouble Ahead E*Trade sidestepped bankruptcy when hedge fund Citadel Investment Group purchased some $3 billion of E*Trade's debt. Yet a closer look at the deal reveals some useful insights into the likely future of the mortgage-backed-securities market.  |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
The Lure of Private Equity -- Part 2 As one can infer from the increasing trend toward private equity investments, the use of private equity provides advantages over other methods of raising corporate capital.  |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
The Orderly Deleveraging at Bear Stearns Here is an investor's tour of the mess at Bear Stearns, which has been figuring out what to do about a couple of its hedge funds that have made some not-so-successful bets on the subprime mortgage market.  |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2006 Matt Hudgins |
Is CMBS Losing Steam? While the production of commercial mortgage-backed securities continues to outpace last year's volume, at least one expert is pointing to a possible slowdown in issuance later this year.  |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2007 Parke M. Chapman |
Q & A Here, the EVP of Midland Loan Services talks about the strong market for securitized commercial real estate debt and why he believes that growing distress among residential sub-prime borrowers could impact CMBS and CDO investors.  |
Investment Advisor February 2008 Kathleen M. McBride |
Litigation A-Go-Go Lawsuits, investigations, and probes.  |
Bank Systems & Technology June 24, 2008 Thompson & Mataconis |
Banks Must Rely On Their Own Risk Models in Future Long-term, it's clear that banks will have to provide more transparency into their credit and risk decisions -- and do a lot more of the work themselves.  |
U.S. Banker March 2002 Man Yin Li |
Transfer That Risk! With more and more bankruptcies and defaults, many banks can protect themselves with credit derivatives. There are dangers in using them, but if used intelligently, they can be a boon to many banks...  |
BusinessWeek May 15, 2006 Roben Farzad |
KKR: Barbarians At Your Gate Private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. opens itself up to the public. Here's why that may be a red flag.  |
Registered Rep. February 17, 2012 Jennifer Popovec |
Commercial Mortgage REITs: Less Risk, Same Reward? A new crop of commercial mortgage REITs emerging today may be less risky investments compared to the legacy commercial mortgage REITs that operated during the most recent real estate boom, argue some industry experts.  |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2007 Christopher Singley |
A Capital Idea Deflated by the credit crisis, business development company American Capital looks like a bargain.  |
Financial Advisor March 2008 Steven Holt Abernathy |
Overcoming The Leverage Fallout If the war escalates, a couple of big hedge funds or banks implode, or if the Street banker/brokers finally come clean and tell us the scope of what is floating around out there in Level 3 exposure, we could see the abandonment of the dollar and a challenge to the existing financial system.  |
U.S. Banker March 2008 Thomas Killian |
Surviving the 2007 Financial Crisis A four-point plan for bank managements and boards of directors to successfully weather these challenging financial times.  |
Bank Systems & Technology April 7, 2009 Mike Barba |
Crisis Presents Banks With Opportunity to Reexamine Core Systems Now is the time for financial institutions to take stock of their information technology and use the crisis as an opportunity to optimize their core systems.  |
The Motley Fool December 14, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Senate Passes Taxpayer Subprime Bailout The Senate, nearly unanimously, passed a bill that would allow the Federal Housing Administration to insure bigger mortgages with lower down payments.  |
BusinessWeek April 1, 2010 Roben Farzad |
Goldman Sachs: Don't Blame Us When it comes to its role in the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs has a message for the world: Not guilty. Not one bit.  |
BusinessWeek June 10, 2010 Onaran et al. |
How Banks Got Tripped Up by TruPS Securities designed to spread risk ended up magnifying losses in the banking industry when the economy slumped.  |
Bank Systems & Technology January 29, 2005 Travers & Tyrie |
Monitoring Credit Rising consumer debt levels in many countries have led to concerns about deteriorating credit quality. To mitigate their exposure, leading banks are employing sophisticated analytical techniques to improve underwriting, while also managing risk better through the use of credit derivatives.  |