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Worldwide Workouts Filing for bankruptcy protection means different things in different countries. Will a uniform code ever be adopted? |
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November 1, 2006
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How to Protect Client Assets What can a financial advisor do to protect clients? Start by learning about asset-protection strategies that allow an individual to create legal barriers and disincentives to potential litigants. |
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PG&E: A Utility Struggles to Adapt to the Information Age Pacific Gas and Electric Company may be an ancient dinosaur, but one of its problems is too much technology. That is, too many scattered information technology systems that don't talk to one another. |
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Cover Your Assets Proven asset protection vehicles continue to be vital for any planner intent on helping clients shield their wealth. |
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The Asset Protection Boom Interest in asset protection among the affluent has doubled since 2000. |
The Motley Fool
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PG&E's Dividend At first glance, Pacific Gas & Electric seems to be using debt to finance its recently announced dividend. Say it isn't so! But don't jump to conclusions. Consumers and shareholders win on this deal. |
BusinessWeek
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Enron's Last Mystery Was Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, as blind to the company's shenanigans as it maintains? Internal messages suggest the firm doubted the legitimacy of some of Enron's business practices. |
Salon.com
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Bruce Brugmann's moment of glory California's energy crisis is a long-awaited vindication for the feisty publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian... |
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Bondholder Backlash Leveraged buyout debtholders are getting tougher about protecting their interests. |
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World Turned Upside Down In the "insolvency zone," creditors exert a strong pull that often throws CFOs off balance. |
BusinessWeek
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Wal-Mart Faces the Big Box of Bias Suits A Supreme Court review of a massive gender discrimination suit against Wal-Mart could usher in new rules regarding class actions. |
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January 12, 2004 |
Robert Glynn During the energy deregulation boom of the late 1990s, PG&E Corp. Chairman and CEO Robert D. Glynn Jr. made several strategic bets that didn't pan out. |
CFO
September 1, 2002
Kris Frieswick |
Spin-sanity Can't sell that ill-fitting subsidiary or launch an IPO? The old tax-free spin-off may still be a good bet. |
The Motley Fool
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Time to Sell PG&E? PG&E is having no trouble maintaining its gross margin, which tends to dictate a company's overall profitability. This is solid news; however, PG&E investors need to keep an eye on this over the coming quarters. |
Entrepreneur
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Born Again Good businesses don't have to die just because they've gone hopelessly, out-of-control in debt. There is a place they can turn for redemption: the bankruptcy laws. |
OCC Bulletin
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Reining In SPEs New rules for special-purpose entities may result in bigger corporate balance sheets. |
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Trillion-Dollar Hideaway Offshore accounts. IBCs. Walking trusts. Financial institutions have plenty of names for the places where the wealthy now hide their money from the IRS. They just don't call it cheating... |
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Against Your Will Is your business drowning in debt? If so, you should know about a legal maneuver creditors can use to force your business into bankruptcy. |
Salon.com
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Why I relish the PG&E power fiasco Of course we kept the lights on! That misguided monolith gave us no incentive not to... |
