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Sarbox Lite or the end of Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on November 25, 2009
...ection Act of 2009 which allows most companies to never comply with the law. Norris quotes former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt saying: "That the Democratic Party is the ...
New fair value rule to face test
in Sox First, on November 16, 2009
...h the classification and measurement of financial assets, such as loans, as well as debt and equity securities using fair value. Sox First will remember how the banks were screaming about fair value, ...
Seen that? - 2005: A Year Of Diabetes Breakthroughs
in Daily Diabetic, on November 9, 2009
...&T Offshore, Inc. - Distribution/Manufacturing/Security James E. Stowers, Jr., American Century Investments - Financial Services Peter C. Farrell, ResMed - Health Sciences Jack Herschend and Peter...
Al Gore, climate change profits and civil disobedience
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
...Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , he has cleaned up big time with its investments in smart electricity grids. That's on top of his companies focused on bio-fuels, sustain...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
... New York Stock Exchange (John Thain and Duncan Niederauer); the chief operating officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division (Adam Storch). No wonder they call it Governm...
MBA turkeys and the market
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...ley O'Neal and his successor John Thain, bank bail out master Henry Paulson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox, former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and his su...
Seen that? - Internet marketing made simple-and cheap!
in BootStrapMe, on November 6, 2009
...anned strategical manner to enhance the marketing campaign effectiveness and maximize the return on investments. The 6-year experience of the company has paved the way for a wide array of online marke...
Fall Hedge Fund Networking Event At Nikki Midtown
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 6, 2009
... professionals for a night of food, drink, music and mingling with other members of the alternative investments community at the Nikki Midtown.
There was a raffle for two Watch Logic signature watc...
Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
...aises serious questions about the legality of Goldman Sachs actions by accusing the bank of selling securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages while at the same time placing bets that ...
TechFlash discusses roadblocks to innovation in America
in The CIO Weblog, on November 2, 2009
...ts, technology and technical innovation have become commodities which no longer can pay for the investments in education and research required to produce them here in the US. Like manufacturing, it m...
Madoff calls SEC's Schapiro a "dear friend": jailhouse interview
in Sox First, on November 1, 2009
...k into the SEC investigators and says he was amazed he wasn't caught. More alarmingly, he describes Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro as a "dear friend" and says she "probably thi...
Seen that? - Pillow Talk
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 31, 2009
...s it with insider trading? Why is there a spate of cases involving dirty trades and pillow talk?The Securities and Exchange Commission has so far filed seven insider trading cases against married coup...
Breaking up the banks
in Sox First, on October 28, 2009
...ker has called for the reinstatement of laws that stop banks from owning and trading risky securities. Still, their calls are unlikely to get any traction from the Obama administration which seems...
Seen that? - Intel Capital Makes Swift Investments Post-Alibaba Deal
in China Venture News, on October 24, 2009
... Intel Capital Makes Swift Investments Post-Alibaba Deal at China Venture News Intel Corporation's $200 million China Technology Fund has wasted little time ...
Sun Microsystems to Cut 3,000 Jobs
in Java Entrepreneur, on October 22, 2009
...racle in April," writes Times Online's Mike Harvey . "Sun said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the layoffs would come from all its major regions, including...
Is the US ready for IFRS?
in Sox First, on October 20, 2009
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Earlier this year, the then incoming head of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Schapiro indicated she was in no hurry to bring global accounting standards (otherwise known as Intern...
Seen that? - A VOD Ad Network is Possible
in The Digital TV Weblog, on October 19, 2009
...Plans at The Digital TV Weblog At the Banc of America Securities media conference in New York City last month, Time Warner Cable CEO, Glenn Britt, and Cab...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
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After helping to create the financial collapse by giving dodgy securities triple-A ratings, moves are afoot to bring ratings agencies into line with legislation designed to make them collecti...
Hedge funds lied to investors
in Sox First, on October 15, 2009
...n badly exposed in a new study Trust and Delegation . Hedge funds were instrumental in buying bad securities and and helping bring the world's financial system to its knees. The study found that ha...
Soros invests $1 billion in clean energy
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
...nvironmental advisory group to aid policymakers. Soros says he will apply stringent criteria to the investments. "They should be profitable but should also actually make a contribution to solving the ...
Seen that? - Nanotech market to top $1 trillion by 2010
in Nanotechbuzz, on October 12, 2009
...ch R&D has increased to over $3 billion per annum, and venture capitalists have increased their investments six times over the previous two years. Companies like Intel, IBM, DuPont, 3M, general el...
China's Problems with the Falling Dollar are its Own Fault
in China Venture News, on October 11, 2009
...d other major currencies, China and other emerging economic powers holding lots of dollars and U.S. securities are crying foul, and for an end to the dollar’s central status in global commerce.
If ...
Seen that? - NYSE Value, is in Goldman`s mind
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 9, 2009
... Pan Asian Biz is one of several sources reporting that the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has approved the New York stock exchange Group (NYSE). What t...
Seen that? - NBA's Marc Cuban Blogs his Plans to Launch Betting Hedge Fund
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 2, 2009
...We have been divesting our equity portfolio to buy other [...] Read More Barbarian Investments Launch Film Production Hedge Fund at The Hedge Funds Weblog ...
Should ratings agencies go the way of Arthur Andersen?
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
...nancial meltdown, ratings agencies are now in the gun with new rules requiring them to provide the Securities and Exchange Commission with data showing past information they passed on to investors. ...
China's Outbound Investment Surpases Inbound Investment
in China Venture News, on September 27, 2009
For the first time, China is sending more investment out of the country to the rest of the world than it is taking in from foreign investors, according to Seeking Alpha . According to Peoples' Daily, this year China could invest 150 billion U.S. dollars overseas. This is three times more th...
Luxury hotels the latest victims of the recession
in Sox First, on September 25, 2009
...ic Monthly's Daniel Indiviglio points out, this could devastate the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market and that will damage the US economy even further. There is only one answer...
FBI probes BoFA-Merrill deal
in Sox First, on September 21, 2009
...as already stinking to high heaven with the Bank of America being forced to pay $33 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading shareholders about the billions of dollars of bon...
logiENERGY launches Peak Oil Fund
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 16, 2009
...hedge nearly every position we take."
The fund's goal is to purchase or make significant investments in oil and gas exploration firms for their reserve positions while supporting their prod...
The financial meltdown and tell-tale emails
in Sox First, on September 15, 2009
...c collateralised debt obligations? The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS staff knew these debt securities were bad and sent off emails making that point quite clear. "OK still have this vomi...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...d exotic financial products. Jacobs writes: "They're still packaging risky mortgages into securities and selling them to investors, who can earn higher returns by purchasing the securities t...
The next bubbles
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
...in the making: China; gold; renewable energy; the Fed snapping up $1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities; the prices of junk financial stocks like Fannie, Freddie, AIG, Citi and Bank of America ...
Gore backs Internet grocer
in Sox First, on September 10, 2009
...re of retailing. As the Guardian points out, Al Gore seems to have a knack for picking successful investments, putting money into Apple and Whole Foods and backing Google before its stock market deb...
SEC links to Madoff scam
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...ver the weekend, I did a blog entry looking at whether Bernard Madoff's victims could sue the Securities and Exchange Commission for its negligence. Certainly, Madoff himself expressed surpris...
Can the SEC be sued for Madoff?
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
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At the end of last year, a 61 year old New York woman Phyllis Molchatsky sued the Securities and Exchange Commission for negligence after she lost $2 million investing with Bernard Madoff. No...
Madoff: contender for SEC chairman
in Sox First, on September 3, 2009
...d Madoff, now spending the rest of his life in jail, was actually a contender to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's the revelation in this SEC report into the regulato...
Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
...struggling to refinance loans. As the WSJ says, the problems hitting the commercial mortgage backed securities sector will damage what's left of the banks. WSJ reporters Lingling Wei and Peter Gr...
Who is buying up US debt?
in Sox First, on August 23, 2009
... report, the grouping known as the Caribbean Banking Centers holds $189.7 billion worth of Treasury securities. That group takes in the Cayman Islands, home to US hedge funds and investment vehicles. ...
Scams bigger than Bernie
in Sox First, on August 14, 2009
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Remember Harry Markopolos ? He was the whistleblower who alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission to Bernard Madoff's scam. The guy who was ignored by the SEC until it was too late. N...
Liquidia Technologies Raises $7 Million
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 13, 2009
...d over $7 million in new funding, according to a regulatory filing.
"A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals the company raised $7,031,130 in equity," accordin...
Madoff's right hand man pleads guilty: who's next?
in Sox First, on August 12, 2009
...court heard that this was happening as early as the 80s, so nearly 30 years ago. Why didn't the Securities and Exchange Commission pick it up? A new book Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Ma...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
...E's auditors KPMG. Echoes of Arthur Andersen. Accounting commentator J. Edward Ketz says the Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro is doing the public an injustice by going too...
Global Recovery
in China Venture News, on August 7, 2009
...leinfeld, Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) CEO Richard Adkerson, CEO Donald Tang of Hong Kong-based Citic Securities International Partners, and Joe Meuse, president of financial consulting firm Belmont Par...
Google 出价 1.065 亿美元收购 On2
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-06
Google 表示 将斥资 1.065 亿美元收购数字视频压缩技术提供商 On2 Technologies。
根据协议规定，每股 On2 股票将转换为价值 0.60 美元的 Google 普通股。交易规模大约在1 .065 亿美元。整个交易预计将在今年第四季度完成。
Google 拥有广受欢迎的视频共享网站 YouTube。而 On2 是一家数字视频压缩技术提供商，在网络视频日益盛行的今天，数字视频压缩技术已成为一个重要法宝。
Google 产品管理副总裁 Sundar Pichai 在声明中表示，"现在视频已经是 Web 体验的一个重要组成部分，我们相信高品质的视频压...
Want a good retirement? Pay off that mortgage loan first
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 3, 2009
...urself a favor. If you can pay off that mortgage — even if it means selling off some of those investments of yours — do it. You'll then enter retirement without one of your biggest deb...
Skype to shut down?
in Sox First, on August 1, 2009
...cheduled for hearing before the English High Court in June next year. eBay's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission makes it quite clear that Skype's future really hangs on the ...
DHL continues to expand in China
in Supplychainer, on July 30, 2009
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DHL group has invested around $2.2 billion in Asia-Pacific and will continue to make significant investments in the region in the future, Mr. Mok said. He said DHL Supply Chain's growth in Chin...
微软与 Yahoo 达成为期 10 年的搜索合作协议
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-31
微软和 Yahoo 今天共同对外宣布，双方已达成为期 10 年的搜索和广告合作协议，称该交易将为全球消费者和广告主带来更多选择，并有利于进一步加强全球互联网产业的技术创新步伐。
微软、 Yahoo 称，总而言之，通过该交易，微软将成为 Yahoo 搜索的技术提供商，而 Yahoo 将独家负责两家公司全球范围内的搜索广告销售事务。
两家公司称，对网民和广告主而言，该交易在整合双方产品资源和搜索平台后，将推动互联网产业的持续技术创新。网民们会发现，他们查找信息的速度将更快，所获得信息准确性也更高。通过微软具有市场竞争力的搜索平台，将为广告主、内容提供商带来更多价值，并提高网民们的互联网活...
Goldman Sachs in the gun
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
...ernal communications, such as email, show bankers had private doubts about whether mortgage-related securities they were putting together were as financially sound as their public pronouncements sugge...
最终幻想7 神之子 FF7 克劳德 Cloud 所持大刀 First Tsurugi
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-29
...想7 神之子 FF7 克劳德 Cloud 所持大刀 First Tsurugi
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First SOX clawback
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
...running the company when misleading information was being put out. And now for the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that former chief executive officer of CSK Auto C...
MFA on Obama's Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 16, 2009
... private pools of capital, including private equity and venture capital funds, to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Baker highlights how the Administration's proposed le...
CalPERS sues ratings agencies
in Sox First, on July 16, 2009
...ant public pension fund CalPERS is suing them for issuing "wildly inaccurate" rankings on investments that it says cost pensioners "perhaps more than $1 billion." It will be fasci...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...sults to be sustainable. Moreover, we continue to have concerns about the confidence sensitivity of securities firms with sizable trading operations and high reliance on wholesale funding, despite thi...
Steuermann: Mit Steuern steuern ist und bleibt Kinderkram
in Bauen - aber richtig, on 06.07.09
... bietet Hausbesitzern oder Käufern eine gute Gelegenheit, Einkünfte und Investments zu optimieren. "Die Abgeltungsteuer kann es interessanter machen, Mietshäuser mit Fremd- statt mit Eigenkapit...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
...rmula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap. Then they hoover up vast sums from the middle and lower floors of so...
全球前 100 名最佳投资网络 VC
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-02
最近的一项报告根据风险投资者的网络化程度，评选出具备最佳网络的前 100 家风险投资商。
该报告认为 ，风险投资者的网络化程度越高，网络越好，投资回报率就越高。该报告指出，风险投资者的网络是与由其他与其进行联合投资的投资者所组成的。风险投资拥有的联合投资者越多，网络就越好。风险投资商的网络规模与回报率之间的关系，可以为其投资带来更好的交易流、人才、顾问、潜在客户和退出可能。
该报告对 2006-2008 年间为超过 3300 家创业公司提供融资支持的 2700 个投资者进行了分析，并根据网络化程度评分，评选出具备最佳网络的前 100 家风险投资商。请见下表：
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DHL makes exansion in China
in Supplychainer, on July 1, 2009
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DHL group has invested around $2.2 billion in Asia-Pacific and will continue to make significant investments in the region in the future, Mr. Mok said. He said DHL Supply Chain's growth in Chin...
July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum
in China Venture News, on June 30, 2009
...nture capitalists funds with infrastructure funds also playing a big role. China has increased its investments on cleantech by three-fold to RMB1.35 trillion in the past decade. According to 2Point6Bi...
Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
... they were supposed to invest the money they weren't paying on their mortgage into safe, steady investments. It'd be a chance to make extra money.
Of course, I have no idea how many holders o...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
... of corporate greed. But he was allowed to get away with it for years. We can blame the incompetent Securities and Exchange Commission turning a blind eye. Surely, the SEC should be brought to account...
Don't believe the homeownership hype
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 24, 2009
You should buy a home because it's the best lifestyle choice for you and your family. You shouldn't buy a house becasue it's a good investment.
There's a simple reason for this: Homes aren't as good of an investment as real estate agents and mortgage loan officers make them out ...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...y, advisers of hedge funds whose assets exceed a certain size will be required to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As I said, it all makes sense and is long overdue. But will it ...
Art Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 10, 2009
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According to Friedrich Kiradi, head of Merit Alternative Investments GmbH and director of the world-wide first Art Photography Fund. "Investments in material assets such as real estate, comm...
PCAOB chairman Mark Olson quits. What now for Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on June 9, 2009
...lt in a rethink of Sarbanes-Oxley. Another explanation might be that Olson was appointed by former Securities and Exchange Commission chief Christopher Cox. He is gone and a new administration an...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
..., brought the company down. It has since been bought out by Bank of America.
Mozilo was charged by securities regulators earlier this week with insider trading and regulatory fraud. You can read all ...
SEC probe uncovers problems
in Sox First, on June 2, 2009
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All is not well at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Read through the report of the SEC Inspector General and weep. Shake your head in disgust because the report makes it clear that the th...
Fujitsu expands to Australian ERP market
in Supplychainer, on June 1, 2009
... now in a position to offer a broader range of solutions and services to support our customers' investments in SAP and Oracle throughout their investment lifecycle. This is very exciting news for ...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...esolve it then. Clusterstock has come up with its own radical solutions. These include nuking the Securities and Exchange Commission which has failed to protect investors, stop letting companies hir...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...h, Hank Paul-son, the former US Treasury secretary, and Christopher Cox, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a remarkable trinity who more than fulfilled the mission o...
