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Anatomy Of A Ratings Downgrade How S&P and Moody's miscalculated risk on two top-rated pools of mortgage-backed bonds.   |
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? |
Finance & Development
September 8, 2008
Andreas Jobst |
Back to Basics What is securitization? |
Wired
Felix Salmon |
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street How could one formula pack such a devastating punch? The answer lies in the bond market, the multitrillion-dollar system that allows pension funds, insurance companies, and hedge funds to lend trillions of dollars. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
S&P Being Taken to the Woodshed The ratings agency will have to answer the SEC's questions about CDO ratings fiasco. |
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. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
November 5, 2007
Sham Gad |
The 1987 Crash -- a Dress Rehearsal? If mortgages continue to deteriorate at such an accelerating pace, the result could make the October 19, 1987 Black Monday Crash seem like a dress rehearsal. |
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. |
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. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2007
Jerry Webman |
The Credit Crunch A Wall Streeter explains what happened and how the financial markets got into their current state. |
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? |
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. |
Finance & Development
June 2009 |
The Perfect Storm The IMF's Chief Economist explained in a November 2008 lecture how a crisis that began in mortgage-backed securities turned into the worst recession since the 1930s. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2006
Matt Hudgins |
Why CDOs Are Hot With much of the world's investment capital seeking placement in commercial real estate, lenders are eager to help property owners liquidate portions of their equity and refinance through CDOs. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology
September 23, 2007
Penny Crosman |
Can Financial Models Prevent CDO Problems? Computerized financial models help fund managers at Barclays, Mitsubishi and Point Clear make better decisions. |
Investment Advisor
August 2007
Kathleen M. McBride |
Coming Home to Roost Lurking problems in CMOs, CDOs, and junk dominate this year's Morningstar Investment Conference. |
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? |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Sep/Oct 2005
Andrew Stewart |
7 Real Estate Finance Myths Unveiled Discover the market factors that really are influencing today's real estate transactions. |
OCC Bulletin
May 22, 2002 |
Unsafe and Unsound Investment Portfolio Practices Description: Supplemental Guidance This bulletin alerts banks to the potential risk to future earnings and capital from poor investment decisions made at the current low level of interest rates... |
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. |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Over Rated? The subprime fiasco has put corporate credit-ratings on thin ice. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2008
Sham Gad |
What a Rating Downgrade Really Means Repercussions of bond rating downgrades could wreak havoc on investors. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 24, 2008
Thompson & Mataconis |
Banks Must Rely On Their Own Risk Models in Future Long-term, it's clear that banks will have to provide more transparency into their credit and risk decisions -- and do a lot more of the work themselves. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Paying for Quality With bonds, sometimes it pays to get the best. Investors and mutual funds that are buying lower-quality bonds may find that they would've been better off sticking with Treasuries in the long run. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007
Jennifer Popovec |
How to Get in on High-Yield Real Estate Debt The CRE CDO game is just beginning to open up to individual investors. But beware. CRE CDOs, relatively new high-yield debt vehicles, are only for the truly adventurous. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Greatest Trick the Bankers Ever Pulled How do we get banks to get back to accurately pricing risk? By attacking the problem from multiple angles. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Nov/Dec 2006
Gary Mozer |
Greater Access Collateralized debt obligations offer small commercial investors financing options. |
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. |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2008
Bennett Voyles |
Ask Not for Whom the Dow Tolls How will advisors and investors behave after the collapse of 2008? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Noel Sacasa |
Preventing Future Crises The financial crisis has exposed weaknesses in the current regulatory and supervisory frameworks and made it clear that we are in need of regulatory reform. |
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. |
CFO
Andrew Osterland |
Commercial Paper Chase If banks have to come clean about their off-balance-sheet leverage, get ready to pay more for money. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
Will Your Bond Fund Blow Up? Consider the risks. |
Investment Advisor
October 2009
Chris Ryon |
Not Quite So Risky Business If your clients are invested in municipal bonds, you'd better brush up on how the recession has affected the pricing of those bonds. An exploration of credit risk and pricing in the muni market. |
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FYI: An Update on Emerging Issues in Banking Assessing the banking industry's exposure to an implicit government guarantee of gses |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Is This Junk Worth the Risk? Do high-risk bonds offering high rates belong in your portfolio? |
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. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
Bernard J. Haddigan |
A Structured Finance Hangover At the height of the commercial real estate market's historic up cycle in 1999, collateralized debt obligations emerged on the scene. |
Investment Advisor
October 2008
George Strickland |
Sleuthing Bonds Municipal bonds are now more likely to move in the opposite direction of Treasury bonds, where before the two markets commonly moved in the same direction. |
Financial Advisor
November 2007
Mary Rowland |
Making Sense Of Chaos The mortgage meltdown has showed the uglier side of investing in dicey loans. |
