Shadow Banking News
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Mapping a Path Through the Financial Services MinefieldWhy the Financial Services Industry Doesn't Have Your Best Interests in Mind
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Vice Chairman? Downfall of Ex-Bank Boss Grips UK
… has had to plug a 1.5 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) hole in its finances, and recently agreed to a bailout plan by hedge funds . But it was his personal life that became the subject of scandal this week, when the Mail on Sunday said it had filmed Flowers …
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Money Market Fund Assets Fall $5.47 Billion
… mutual fund trade group said Thursday. Assets of taxable money market funds in the retail category rose $2.37 billion to $726 ..... billion to $191.09 billion. Assets in institutional money market funds fell $5.75 billion to $1.745 trillion. Among institutional …
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SAC Capital Manager's Insider Trading Trial Starts
A prosecutor has told jurors at a New York trial that a portfolio manager for one of the nation's largest hedge funds used insider trading to boost sagging results in 2007. The trial of Michael Steinberg is the first to result from the government's …
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Is It Time to Get Back Into Bonds?… investments mighht help manage risk effectively. Their liquidity allows you to quickly move holdings to cash islands like money market funds if an economic storm threatens their value. Disclosure: As of this writing, I held positions in the SPDR Barclays Capital …
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A Hot Year for Stocks, but Not for Hedge Funds
… behind those who have their money in humble low-fee index funds. For the past five years in a row the vast majority of hedge funds have failed to match the S&P. This year is no exception. "The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index has underperformed the S&P …
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Twitter (TWTR) IPO Shares Hang Around Top Price of $46… Springsteen protest banner Baier TG and a research consulting firm that provides real time market research to broker dealers. son hedge funds Steve is soaring on its debut why. What I and I will tell yes it's soaring no one on Wall Street needs any coffee today …
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Google Chairman Says NSA Spying Allegations 'Outrageous'… firm will plead guilty to insider trading charges and pay a $1.2 billion fine. SAC has been one of the most successful hedge funds with annual returns of over 20 percent for its investors. The deal is not expected to resolve the SEC's civil lawsuit against …
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Kate Middleton Dazzles at Charity Gala
… Christening At this event, Kate, who wore her long hair down in loose curls, was the guest of honor at the 100 Women in Hedge Funds Gala to benefit Action on Addiction , an addiction charity of which Kate is a patron . The Life and Times of Kate Middleton …
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How to Decide if Ultrashort-Term Bond Funds Are Right for You… ultrashort funds act as a substitute for money market funds , delivering relative safety and ..... choices from 'Breaking Bad' Even money market funds , thought to be nearly as safe as ..... 1-per-share price. That spurred a run on money market funds , which caused some of them to sell …
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Head Start Gets $10M to Stay Open From Texas Billionaires… accused by Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi and other pension groups of reducing pension benefits and investing assets in riskier hedge funds . The foundation's explanation of its principles of pension reform explains that pension plans "should adequately inform …
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Top 5 Dangers That Remain After the Financial Collapse, Lessons Learned… financial stability. For example, without a required capital buffer by law, Coffee is concerned about a future run on money market funds . He blames lobbyists for influencing Congress, which oversees federal agencies. "The SEC won't dare move in that …
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Millions More Back Office Jobs Head Overseas
… makes are hard to argue against. The big banks are bigger, despite outrage over the role they played in the crisis. Shadow banking is more active, not less. The rich are richer, and the system depends more than ever on faith in central banks …
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Syria Weighs In On The Markets… so much even more than they used to. Is that ran ran into the ground he dumped its stake last week and a bunch of big week hedge funds are getting on board. Guys really know what they're talking about you you have Kyle bass is a big way down Texas. got …
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Risk-Shy Americans Prefer Pitiful Returns of Cash Investing… to a study by Bankrate.com . Twenty-six percent of those surveyed preferred cash, which includes savings accounts, money - market funds , and certificates of deposit (CDs). Cash beat real estate (23 percent), gold or other precious metals (16 percent …
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Feds Charge Hedge Fund… On a scale without any known precedent in the history of hedge funds . As described in the indictment the scope of illegal trading ..... here is that SAC capital is one of the biggest most powerful hedge funds in the entire world at their peak they controlled fifteen …
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Wall Street Stocks Hit Record Highs
… investment bank activity. Deregulation in the late 1990s changed the rules, allowing big banks to jump into investment products, hedge funds and private equity business. "Banking should be boring," Warren told reporters, arguing that people who take big risks …
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Markets Slide as Interest Rates Rise
… as quantitative easing - if economic data, especially hiring, improves. Now Japanese media reports are saying overseas hedge funds may be dumping the country's equities following disappointment over the Bank of Japan's decision earlier in the week to …
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U.S. Spending Up Despite Payroll Tax… ago to in the last week was whether or not JC Penney could make it to the Christmas selling season. Now they can and the hedge funds were rather impressively getting along this company last week ahead of the debt deal them. Behave and they are kind of loading …
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Web Extra: Read an Excerpt of David Stockman's New Book… ultra-leveraged hedge funds which happened to ..... of "wholesale" money market funds , mainly short-term ..... these de facto hedge funds held assets which ..... government only" money market funds . In truth, the …
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401(k) Rollover Process Can Be Misleading, Report Says
… contributions and direct those and those of their employer to investment options, including mutual funds, target date funds, money market funds or company stock. According to the Investment Company Institute, IRA assets were $5.1 trillion by mid-year 2012 …
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New Bounce for 401(k) Funds
… and there has been a large amount of volatility over years, but the averages have been better long-term bets than money market funds or bonds. "The stock market has consistently grown every decade over 10 percent," says Mark Wojno of Kiplinger's …
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Hedge Fund Manager Charged With Insider Trading
… SAC Capital Advisors, one of the nation's most prominent hedge funds , an FBI spokesman said. Steinberg faces charges of insider ..... far in the FBI's campaign to root out insider trading at hedge funds and expert networking firms. SAC Capital Advisors, based …
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China Fraud Accusations: Wesley Clark's Ex-Firm Faces Questions… large numbers of American investors, both though losses by public pension funds and 401K's, by Wall Street titans and hedge funds , and by small investors who traded from their lap tops. It's money that authorities say is unlikely to be recovered …
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Sens. Charles Schumer and Jon Kyl on 'This Week'… because they don't pay corporate tax rates. They pay as individuals. But -- but wait a second. That's counting big hedge funds as small businesses, big hollywood productions like oprah winfrey as small businesses. It affects very few. We all know …
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'This Week' Transcript: Senators Charles Schumer and Jon Kyl… pay corporate tax rates; they pay as individuals. KARL: But -- but... SCHUMER: Wait a second. That's counting big hedge funds as small businesses, big Hollywood productions, like Oprah Winfrey, as small businesses. It affects very few. We all …
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Stores Begin to Sell out of Twinkies, Hostess Products… products hang in the balance as Hostess winds down the company. Private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings is one of the owners. Hedge funds Silver Point Capital and Monarch Alternative Capital own Hostess' debt. A spokesman for Silver Point Capital, based in …
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Twinkies Maker Will Close After Strike… Union (BCTGM) said the contract would also cut benefits by 27 to 32 percent. Hostess, which is privately owned by two hedge funds , has struggled in recent years with two bankruptcy filings. The company said it "has done everything in its power to pursue …
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Twinkies Maker Hostess to Liquidate Company if Strikes Persist
… Union (BCTGM) said the contract would also cut benefits by 27 to 32 percent. Hostess, which is privately owned by two hedge funds , has struggled in recent years with two bankruptcy filings. The company said it "has done everything in its power to pursue …
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Twilight for Twinkies? Hostess Workers Strike as Company Struggles
… healthier lunchbox choices than carbohydrate-rich snack cakes and white bread. The company, which is privately owned by two hedge funds , has struggled in recent years with two bankruptcy filings, and is locked in a battle with the bakers union. "Hostess …
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Conflicted Voters Consider Closing Arguments (The Note)… familiar with his finances. Mr. Romney's assets, valued at between $190 million and $250 million, include investments in hedge funds , private-equity funds and partnerships at Bain Capital, which he ran for 15 years. These entities have ownership stakes …
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Nike Drops Lance Armstrong; Candidates Spar Over Oil and Gas… estate. As it as a good it's it's been a big last couple years I mean this is this is the alternative investment. Arena hedge funds had been have been going after real and very big way. And a lot of them are now saying okay we're gonna buy these of house …
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Goldman Sachs Employees Abandon Obama Campaign Finance Ship… was not appreciated." Of the securities and investment firms that the Center for Responsive Politics tracks, a number of hedge funds and private equity firms have given larger amounts, many giving to Romney, who spent much of his career with private equity …
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Ryan on Obama Tax Plan: 'Watch Out Middle Class ... Bill Is Coming to You'… the small business America pay. Less that make less than 250000. Dollars me tell you some of those other small business hedge funds the next 6800. Million dollars a year. That that's they count as small as. Visits because their past let's look at …