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13 Jul 2010
Hello, my name is the international investment community and I have been brought low by my addiction to toxic assets. It took away my bonus, my job, my lifestyle and my reputation. As I am trying to make sense of what happened and how I can get my life back - I wanted to share with you a few things I learned about toxic assets the hard way: 1. To...
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17 May 2010
No B-movie or schlocky sitcom is complete without the "letter from the grave" plot device- in which the recently departed get to tell those who are left behind where the money (or the skeleton) is hidden. While ‘resolution and recovery plans' at least have reassuring alliterative potential, "living wills" is so much better. It ...
03 Dec 2009
Easily the most unusual literary success story of the year, the Jane Austen inspired mash-up novel which inspires this blog title is terrific trashy fun. If you are looking for a quirky Christmas present for any Regency pulp fiction obsessed bibliophiles in your acquaintance, you could do worse than look here. Improbably, there are quite a few in...
09 Sep 2009
Two widely-accepted facts: valuation processes sit in the front office, reporting sits in the back. But what's in the middle? Often, it's been a chasm where the basic details on how/when/why an asset or portfolio was priced disappear, never to be found - a problem when the regulators knock on the door. Demand for independent price verification (IPV...
22 Jan 2009 Reply Read article