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The Motley Fool December 20, 2007 Dan Caplinger	The Ratings Game The companies that rate bonds look at several factors in rating fixed-income securities. Learn how these ratings work, and don't buy without knowing the facts.
BusinessWeek October 1, 2007 David Henry	Anatomy Of A Ratings Downgrade How S&P and Moody's miscalculated risk on two top-rated pools of mortgage-backed bonds.
BusinessWeek August 6, 2007 Roben Farzad	Let The Blame Begin Everyone played some role in the subprime mess - the Street, lenders, ratings agencies, hedge funds, even homeowners. Where does responsibility lie?
BusinessWeek July 23, 2007 Henry & Goldstein	The Subprime Mess: "It's Just Going To Get Worse" Many more borrowers could default when ARM rates rise.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 Morgan Housel	Rating Agencies Begin to Come Clean If any group deserves the most blame for shady practices that gave credence to subprime debt, it might be the rating agencies.
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 David Henry	A Chain Reaction in Shaky Debt? As exotic CDOs topple, the impact could ripple through debt markets and wallop more funds and banks.
BusinessWeek July 9, 2007 Goldstein et al.	Mutually Assured Mayhem Wall Street is on edge, scrambling to buck up Bear Stearns and avert a domino-effect debacle.
BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 David Henry	How The Bad News Could Get Worse If delinquencies lead to downgrades of mortgage-backed securities, ripples could become waves.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Moody's Blues Debt-ratings agency Moody's watches its earnings and reputation erode, as the once-lucrative business of rating batches of collateralized debt obligations has begun to sour.
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien	Subprime Truths and Consequences The continuing credit crunch spotlights the perils of leverage. How should your financial advisory clients respond?
Investment Advisor October 2006 Palash R. Ghosh	Remember To Pay The Mortgage Mortgage-backed securities, a somewhat overlooked, though very large, section of the fixed-income universe, are becoming more attractive to investors in light of a softening housing market and slipping Treasury yields.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2007 S.J. Caplan	Investor 007's Bond Dossier Bond basics and beyond. Spying on rates: U.S. Treasury -- 2-year... 5-year... Clues to the market... Detecting developments... Hot tip: Homebuilder bonds recently overtook papermaker securities to win the dubiously coveted title of "riskiest junk bond issuers"...
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 D. Henry & M. Goldstein	Citi May Have a New Mess on Its Hands Citibank could take another billion-dollar hit from bad debt tied to the CDO commercial paper market.
CFO September 1, 2008 Alix Stuart	Over Rated? The subprime fiasco has put corporate credit-ratings on thin ice.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu	Morningstar Has a AAA-Rated Plan Morningstar announced today that it's getting into the credit rating business.
The Motley Fool April 18, 2011 Alex Dumortier	Revealed: 3 Emails That Explain the Crisis Released last week, a new 650-page Senate report on the financial crisis describes multiple aspects of a financial system run amok, including the way in which bankers muscled ratings agencies to turbo-charge their deal-making machine.
CFO June 1, 2010 Randy Myers	Ratings Disaster Congress takes another stab at reforming the credit-rating agencies, whose AAA seal of approval helped fuel the subprime crisis. But will any change truly make a difference?
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 Matthew Goldstein	Wall Street's Next Worry The credit crisis is spreading from Wall Street to a less well known corner of the financial world, that of the bond insurers. An obscure company called ACA Capital might spark the explosion.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2010 Amanda B. Kish	Will Your Bond Fund Blow Up? Consider the risks.
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004	Q&A with Jeffrey Gundlach The co-manager of TCW Galileo Total Return Bond Fund says "by concentrating in mortgages, we have an edge over more diversified funds"
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BusinessWeek November 5, 2007 Matthew Goldstein	Why Merrill Got Burned So Badly Its leadership role in underwriting risky CDOs brought in millions in fees but put Merrill Lynch in the subprime bull's-eye.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Morgan Housel	Put the Rating Agencies Out of Their Misery Before It's Too Late Once again, raters have proven themselves stuck on stupid. Congress is waking up. Two amendments in the just-passed Senate financial overhaul bill could euthanize the flawed parts of the rating system.
U.S. Banker July 2008 Michael Sisk	A `Radical' Answer to Credit-Ratings Conflict The government should remove itself completely from the credit-rating business, stop deciding which company can and can't rate a bond, and stop making institutions pay attention to rating agencies whose work may be shoddy - and, it often turns out, is.
Investment Advisor August 2007 Jeff Joseph	The Far Reach of Subprime Woes Leveraged loans to companies are likely to be adversely affected by hedge fund losses from collateralized debt obligations.
HBS Working Knowledge January 20, 2009 Julia Hanna	Risky Business with Structured Finance Even modest imprecision in estimating underlying risks is magnified disproportionately when securities are pooled and tranched.
Wall Street & Technology May 23, 2008 Larry Tabb	In a Tumultuous Economy, Wall Street Must -- and Will -- Find a New Model As fixed-income markets falter and write-downs proliferate, investment banks need to discover new opportunities and new strategies to manage risk.
Financial Planning December 17, 2007 Matthew Posner	The Bond Buyer Shifts in the municipal marketplace have impacted participants in various ways, causing players to reassess their investment strategies going forward.
U.S. Banker December 2009 Joseph Rosta	Re-REMICs Redux Buying and selling reshuffled mortgage securities, where lower-rated assets are separated from tranches, is gaining bank favor.
HBS Working Knowledge June 13, 2012 Maggie Starvish	HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's dominated the credit ratings industry for decades. Could the recession weaken their hold?
Financial Advisor June 2008 Bruce W. Fraser	No Longer A Wallflower For your clients' fixed-income portfolios, now may be a desirable time to be thinking of investing in simple, plain vanilla investments.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2008 Sham Gad	What a Rating Downgrade Really Means Repercussions of bond rating downgrades could wreak havoc on investors.
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Goldstein & Henry	Bear Bets Wrong Two Bear Stearns hedge funds soared by specializing in exotic securities and unorthodox practices. Then they imploded and helped set off a global credit market meltdown.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Jennifer Popovec	Watch Your Back Investments that everyone thought were safe -- residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) -- may be far riskier than expected.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2009 Morgan Housel	The Most Powerful Companies in the World Allowing one company's actions to have so much influence over the economy is terribly dangerous and never should have happened. But it is still happening, with ratings agencies.
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Der Hovanesian & Goldstein	Who Will Get Shredded? As the subprime business tanks, the pain is spreading to a wide swath of investors.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2007 Michael Leibert	Moody's: No Chink in the Armor Despite feeling some heat, Moody's projects solid growth and maintains a strong competitive position. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Emil Lee	Securitization Simplified Securitization is complicated, but understanding the mechanics will help you evaluate many financial companies. Here is a brief primer on collateralized debt obligations.
HBS Working Knowledge August 31, 2009 Martha Lagace	Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies Competition in credit ratings forces raters to favor issuers. This is contrary to the interest of those who rely on ratings to make investment decisions or to regulate.
Financial Advisor March 2006 Marla Brill	Mortgage Bonds Offer Mixed Bag A cooling housing market, rising interest rates and regulatory scrutiny have bond fund managers and fixed-income strategists keeping a watchful eye on the direction of the $5.8 trillion mortgage-backed securities market.
Wall Street & Technology November 27, 2007 Greg MacSweeney	The Fallout From CDOs Will Last Through 2008 Banks' inability to price and measure risk on complex financial products is alarming and needs to be improved to avoid another market meltdown.
CFO December 1, 2009 Edward Teach	"You Don't Manage by Models." An astute judgment call helped the nation's largest life insurer steer clear of the subprime crisis. An interview with William J. Wheeler, CFO at MetLife Inc.
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 Randall Dodd	Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis The mortgage market turbulence is as much about the breakdown of the structure of U.S. financial markets as it is about bad debt.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Palash R. Ghosh	Diamonds Among The Junk High-yield bonds -- those fixed income securities rated below investment grade -- have some advantages over more vanilla-type bond products.
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National Real Estate Investor January 28, 2003 Parke Chapman	Moody's: Domestic CMBS issuance to rise this year According to Moody's, U.S commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance this year will reach $67 billion, up from last year's total of $66 billion.
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 David Adler	High Net Worth: Fixing Fixed Income Financial advisors and their clients may be neglecting the fixed-income portion of their portfolios and making suboptimal choices -- even when the overall bond allocation is appropriate.
U.S. Banker April 2008 Joseph Rosta	If You Build an Exchange, Will They Come? Devising exchange-based trading, complete with futures and options contracts, for the public trading of these securities may be the surest route to creating transparency and setting firm prices.