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17 hrs ago | The Big Picture

Bear Stearns, Lehman Execs Kept Billions . . .

Everyone knows that senior execs at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were paid largely in stock, and that they lost most of their wealth when the companies collapsed, right? Turns out, not so much: "Three professors at Harvard are disputing that logic in a new study, saying it is an urban myth that executives at Bear and Lehman were wiped out along ...

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Investment Banking, Investment Services

Mon Nov 23, 2009

ABC News

Hedge Funds May Get $11 Billion Frozen at Lehman

Lehman Brothers International , where more than $35 billion of hedge fund assets have been frozen since the bank's collapse last September, could return about $11 billion to fund managers by March if enough firms approve a new plan.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services, Accounting, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Seeking Alpha

SEC Appointments Disappoint

The most recent major SEC appointment is worrying. In general, Obama's appointments in finance have been uninspiring.

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Related Topix: Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services

Sun Nov 22, 2009

StarNewsOnline.com

Go Ahead and Yell. Hea s Everyonea s Punching Bag.

DEVIN LEONARD ESTERO, Fla. Banks often hire Norman Radow to handle the myriad unpleasantries of the real estate mess.

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Related Topix: Estero, FL, Housing, Foreclosures, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services, Home Gardening, Home

Seeking Alpha

The Fed Backed Itself into a Corner

Over the years, I have warned a seemingly countless number of undergraduates that Fed's hold on monetary independence was tenuous at best.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services, Home, Mortgage

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Business Standard

Simplifying a complex financial saga

In a way, it all began on the 16th of March, 2008, when Bear Stearns, "the smallest but scrappiest of Wall Street's Big Five", fainted in the arms of JP Morgan with the US Treasury acting as matchmaker and priest.

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Related Topix: Federal Reserve Bank, Business News, US News, Ben Bernanke, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Fri Nov 20, 2009

ETaiwanNews.com

Dollar keeps gaining as traders pare risk exposure

The safe-haven dollar kept rising Friday and Treasury yields hovered around their lows for the year as worries about the economy in 2010 continued to weigh on traders' taste for risky bets.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services, Financial Markets

Thu Nov 19, 2009

NY Daily News

Under attack, Geithner defendscostly AIG bailout

Timothy Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary, testifies at a joint Economic Committee hearing on financial regulatory overhaul in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Nov.

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Related Topix: US News, Insurance, American International Group, US Politics, Kevin Brady, Republican, US House of Representatives, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services, Christopher Dodd

Telegraph.co.uk

Lehman claims may total up to 1 trilllion

The number of claims against collapsed Lehman Brothers could top $1 trillion , according to the man running the investment bank's liquidation.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services, Consulting, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Denver Post

Lewis: Morgan Stanley CEO's defiant speech clicks around the world

Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack is becoming a YouTube sensation. A 26-minute video of a talk he gave on "Leadership in Crisis" at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School last month has garnered more than 18,600 page views and 4.5 stars.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Morgan Stanley, Healthcare Industry, Startups, YouTube, University of Pennsylvania, Investment Services, Goldman Sachs Group

Bloomberg.com

KDB Financial's Min Rues `Very Good Opportunity' He Missed to Buy Lehman

KDB Financial Group Inc. Chairman Min Euoo Sung said his failed attempt to buy Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services, South Korea, World News, Asia,

Tue Nov 17, 2009

BusinessPundit

Ghost Towns in China Prove GDP is a Farce

This is a guest post written by Wall St. Cheat Sheet Editor-in-Chief Damien Hoffman .

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Investment Banking, Investment Services

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Bank Systems & Technology

HFT Shops Influence Job Market on Wall Street

Is high-frequency trading driving a wholesale transformation of the job market on Wall Street? It certainly seems that way, given recent comments by industry executives who point to the insatiable demand for programmers who can build ultralow-latency automated trading platforms.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Bear Stearns, Investment Services, New York Metro

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Forbes

Attorneys Need Not Apply

Court official, not SEC-appointed lawyer, should distribute funds, judge says. When an investment scheme goes sour, the Securities and Exchange Commission often appoints a private attorney with a background in bankruptcy law to divvy up the remaining assets.

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Related Topix: Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Money Morning

Buy, Sell or Hold: Buffetta s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Has Been...

I emphasized that Berkshire should be a core, long-term holding in investors' portfolios and not a stock to trade in and out off.

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Related Topix: Berkshire Hathaway, Insurance, Construction, Investment Services, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Forbes

Why No Outcry Over CIT?

Bear Stearns shocked us. Lehman Brothers crushed us. AIG ticks us off. But CIT? Eh.

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Related Topix: CIT Group, Financial Services, Investment Banking, Investment Services, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Raymond James Financial, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Wall Street Folly

Barclaya s Lehman purchase a steal?; Bernie Madoff blowout sale this ...

Barclays, it turns out, cut itself a remarkably good deal. A recent court filing - this one free of redactions - even accuses Barclays of making off with $5 billion without anyone noticing, an amount that Lehman's creditors seem to think should be treated as the largest theft in banking history.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services, Bernie Madoff, Montauk, NY, Morgan Stanley

Wed Nov 11, 2009

WESH-TV

Woman Shocked To See Swastikas On Wrapping Paper

A local woman says her new Christmas wrapping paper is full of swastikas. Casey Lehman bought a roll of wrapping paper at the Altamonte Mall.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Investment Banking, Investment Services

Bloomberg

Picasso Flops as Christie's $66 Million Impressionist Sale Misses Target

Christiea s International had its smallest evening Impressionist and modern-art auction in New York since May 2004 as buyers snubbed Picasso and Matisse in favor of conservative 19th-century landscapes and still-lifes. Last nighta s sale totaled $65.7 million, below the $68.7 million-to-$97.2 million presale estimate.

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Related Topix: Wall Street, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Messenger

Dodd offers bold financial reform plan

The U.S. Senate's top banking legislator proposed ambitious financial regulation reforms on Tuesday, leaping beyond earlier proposals to tighten bank regulation, protect consumers and police systemic risk.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Christopher Dodd, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment Services, Home, Mortgage

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