Dear Mr. Buffett_ What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street - Janet M. Tavakoli [148]
failure
demise
Eurohedge, fixed income fund of the year award
hedge fund, cessation
leverage problems
loans, delinquencies
Multi-strategy fund
contribution
pledged assets, balance
problems
Pension funds, ratings reliance
Pershing Square Foundation, personal gains donation
Personal History (Graham)
Personal returns, health
Phallic narcissist (defined)
Philadelphia Contributorship, Franklin initiation
Pickens,T. Boone
Piggyback loans, principal losses
Pimco Total Return Fund, default guarantees (sale)
Planned Parenthood, Buffett support
Plosser, Charles I.
Pluralistic ignorance
Plus Funds
Ponzi scheme
Poole,William (St. Louis Fed Reserve) statement
Poor Charlie’s Almanack (Munger)
Portfolio insurance
catastrophe (1987)
dynamic hedging
Predatory loans, predatory securitization
Premium money, usage
Prime brokers, hedge funds services
Prime loans, default rate
Probabilities, human assessment (problem)
Protége Partners LLC hedge funds, Buffett challenge
Proxmire,William
Prudent lending
Publicly traded shares, sale
Pulliam, Susan
Q
Quantitative hedge fund (quant fund) models
claims
usage
Quick, Becky
Quintanilla, Carl
R
Random events, explanation
Rapid dominance, strategy
Rappa, Ed
Raptor Global Fund management
Rating agencies
financial astrology
junk science, practice
market foregiveness
methodology, problems
models, risk (moral hazard)
problems
reliance, absence
replacement, problem
Reagan, Ronald (Buffett similarity)
Recession, definition
Recovery rate, guess
Redlining, illegality
Regulators, ineffectiveness
Reich, John
Reilly, Dave
Residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBSs)
portfolio, loan purchases
portfolio value, loss
risk levels
tranches, usage
ResMae Mortgage Corporation, bankruptcy
Revenue enhancement, leverage (usage)
Reverse redlining, illegality
Ricci, Matteo (memory palace)
Ricciardi, Chris
Rigas, John/Timothy (fraud/ conspiracy)
Risk, underwriting (profit)
Risk-free return, lockin
Risk-neutral fully-hedged position
“Rocking-Horse Winner,The” (Lawrence)
Rogers, James B.
wealth, perspective
Rose, Charlie
Rosenberg, Jeffrey
Rubinstein, David
Lee, Jr., warning
Russell, Bertrand
R.W. Pressprich & Co.
S
Salomon Brothers, preferred stock
Sandford C. Bernstein, Inc. (mutual fund performance results)
Sarbanes-Oxley, business impact
Savage, Sam
Scalia, Antonin
Scholes, Myron
Schultz, George P.
Schumer, Charles E.
Schwartz, Alan
CNBC interview
Schwartzenegger, Arnold
Securities, sale (backing)
Securities Act of 1933, Regulation D,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Securitization
markets, fraud (potential)
practices, deception
SFAS 123R, FASB adoption
Shareholders, executive duty (breach)
Sheehan, John/Peggy
Shenn, Jody
Simonides, earthquake survivor
Simons, Jim (earnings)
Sinha, Gyan
Smartest Guys in the Room,The (McLean/Elkind)
Society of Jesus, founding
Soft dollars, usage
Soros, George
South American debt crisis (1980s)
Spanish Prisoner, The
Spector,Warren
Bear Stearns stock, sale
job loss
Speculator, Graham definition
Spitzer, Eliot
OCC attack
scandal
Springfield Finance Control Board, claims
St. Ignatius, psychobiography
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank report
Stagflation
Stallone, Sylvester
Standard & Poor’s (rating agency)
CPDO ratings
ratings, defense
Stated income, stated assets (SISA) program
Statistics
Stempel, Jonathan
Stewart, Jon
Stock
asset value, trading
purchase, Graham advocacy
Stock index fund portfolio, investment
Stockman, David
Stock market technology bubble, collapse
Stock options (call options)
backdaters, compensation
backdating, data patterns
benign intent
corporation marking
employee option exercise
moral hazard
strike price
Strategos Capital Management default
Structured finance ratings, problems
Structured financial products, risk (misunderstanding)
Structured investment vehicles (SIVs)
collateral, downgrades
Subprime-backed investments, shorting
Subprime foreclosures, moratorium/ mortgage restructurings (advocacy)