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- A Blueprint for Banking Reform
- There will be plenty of villains when Financial Services Authority chairman Lord Turner reveals his reform of regulation later this week. Credit-rating agencies, hedge funds, complex financial products, proprietary traders and excessive pay will all be pilloried. But it is imperative Turner reserves some blame for the watchdog he...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
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- Neglected Financial Lessons
- The article says that years since World War II have been an extraordinary eventful and highly inventive period in financial history. Along with the unprecedented growth and innovation are accompanied a number of disturbing financial mishaps, scandals and credit crunches. What should we have learned from this remarkable period in...
- White papers 2000-08-29
- What can insurers do to clean up the mess of corporate governance? (Another Perspective).(Life, non-life insurers had $3.3 tn in financial assets under management in 2001)(Statistical Data Included)
- The $60 billion bankruptcy of Enron last December was the opening act in what has since become one of the greatest and most serious tragedies in the financial history of the United States. What began as an ethically-challenged relationship between The $60 billion...
- Research articles 2002-06-10
- Financial Past Reborn In Lower Manhattan
- Rare specimens and artifacts are soon to be on display at the Museum of American Financial History in New York, which will have access to these treasured collections through the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1988, the Museum of American Financial History has become a designated affiliate of...
- Research articles 2001-02-01
- Financial Past Reborn In Lower Manhattan.
- Rare specimens and artifacts are soon to be on display at the Museum of American Financial History in New York, which will have access to these treasured collections through the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1988, the Museum of American Financial History has...
- Research articles 2001-02-01
- Rexam has launched a new investor relations website, www.investors.rexam.com, as the first stage of an overall development project for the group website, www.rexam.com.(Financial News)(Rexam PLC)(Brief Article)
- REXAM HAS launched a new investor relations website, www.investors.rexam.com, as the first stage of an overall development project for the group website, www.rexam.com. The site provides detailed information on Rexam's management and business structure, corporate governance, acquisition history, markets and products, as well as share ...
- Research articles 2004-10-08
- Finance Museum To Launch Dow Exhibition; `Survival of the Fittest` Will Trace History of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1896 to the Present
- NEW YORK -- On Tuesday, February 1, the Museum of American Financial History, in association with the Smithsonian Institution, will open "Survival of the Fittest: The Evolution of the Dow Jones Industrial Average," an exhibition on the role the original 12 Dow Jones Industrial Average The Dow companies played in...
- Research articles 2005-01-25
- Understanding The Basics Of Financial Statement Analysis
- Financial statements are prepared to help investors and creditors understand the financial history of a company and use that knowledge to predict the amount, timing and uncertainty of both future cash flows (interest, principal payments and dividends) and price appreciation. While investment and credit decision models vary widely, most financial...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Eight Mistakes That Caused the Financial Crisis
- Former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder notes that six major human errors, all of which were highlighted and criticized at the time, caused the financial crisis. Blinder makes an important point and one that I hope the new administration takes to heart. The problems the US is experiencing right...
- External links 2009-01-28
- Financial History & Ratios
- The value of a spreadsheet is that it puts a lot of information in one place to facilitate comparison and analysis. Enter information from your past three years' financial statements and from current year-to-date statements, if available, but simplify the information in two ways to fit into this format.
- Tools & templates 2003-12-11
- Synovus Financial Corp. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. The floor is now opened for questions. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Nancy Bush. Your line is live. Nancy Bush - NAB Research Good afternoon guys. Richard E. Anthony - Chairman of the Board and Chief...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-28
- Want Recovery? History Says Be Patient. Very Patient.
- Take a long enough perspective, and it is no surprise that what some had been calling the GGBAT the Greatest Global Boom of All Time ended with the GGRSGD the Greatest Global Recession Since the Great Depression. Both the boom and its panicky finale fit neatly into a long, human...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- The Credit Crunch: 1929,1873,1836, 1492 All Over Again
- Last week in this space we noted that at least some scholars thought that the analogy between the current unpleasantness in the financial sector and the great stock market crash of 1929 an inapt one. They contend we must delve further back, to the crash of 1873 to find a...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Ameriprise Financial Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Suneet Kamath from Sanford Bernstein. Please go ahead. Suneet Kamath - Sanford Bernstein Thanks. One quick one and then one little bit more strategic. First, Walter, did...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Astoria Financial Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator The floor is now open for questions. [Operator Instructions]. Thank you. Our first question is coming from Mark Fitzgibbon of Sandler O'Neill Mark T. Fitzgibbon - Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P Good afternoon, George. George L. Engelke, Jr. - Chairman...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-20
- Countrywide Financial Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Paul Miller from Friedman, Billings, Ramsey. Please go ahead. Paul Miller - Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Thank you very much. Angelo, you've been through a lot of these different cycles out there and this doesn't seems to be...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-24
- Taking Improbable Events Seriously: An Interview with the Author of ‘The Black Swan'
- The author of The Black Swan explains why the rarity and unpredictability of certain events does not make them unimportant. The scholar, trader, and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb brings a decidedly contrarian view to the world of finance, statistics, and risk. In 2007, he published...
- Articles 2009-01-12
- As Lehman Fades Into History, BofA/Merrill Looks to the Future
- It's a tale of two very different mega-transactions: Bank of America Corp.'s purchase of brokerage firm Merrill Lynch & Co.  offers a prospect of brighter days ahead for the newly-merged company, while the bankruptcy filing of investment house Lehman Brothers merely serves to spotlight the sorry history of massive excess bringing down many venerable firms within the financial...
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Forecasting Financial Statements
- Managers and external users of financial information are more concerned with what the future holds for an organization than its past history because what has happened has happened and reporting systems are incapable of changing history. Financial forecasts on the other had can be used for budgeting as well as...
- White papers 2006-12-02
- Can Parochial Concerns Undermine the Global Adjustment?
- Michael Pettis submits: Between the holiday slowdown and the number of writing commitments I have it has been a little too easy to neglect my blog. What free time I have has been spent reading, and I am reading for the third time what I think is one of...
- External links 2008-12-22
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