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| Subject: Long Term Capital Management Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) was a U.S. hedge fund which used trading strategies such as fixed income arbitrage, statistical arbitrage, and pairs trading, combined with high leverage. It failed spectacularly in the late 1990s, leading to a massive bailout by other major banks and investment houses, which was supervised by the Federal Reserve. The top of the market By John Schroy, on April 29th, 2007 |  3 comments  Google has come out with a new service called Google Alerts that is a great tool for tracking the madness of the US equity market. Sign up and enter the words ’stock buybacks’ and each day your email will bring proof of the lack of market rationality. Googling for ’stock buybacks’ now brings information that suggests that the ‘Buyback Era’ may be drawing to an end. April 29th, 2007 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: Enron, Google, Long Term Capital Management, Neil Cavuto, Stock Buybacks | Category: Stock Buybacks | 3 comments |  Short urlThe Enron scandal By John Schroy, on July 7th, 2006 | Leave a comment  Unfortunately for society, Jeff Skilling of Enron told the truth according to tenets of moral relativism learned at the Harvard Business School and with McKinsey and Company, when, on being sentenced to decades in prison, he said, “That’s the way the game is played. You win some, you lose some.” Skilling was a representative of corporate executives of his time. He did not work alone, nor was he an isolated ‘bad apple’. July 7th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Adam Smith, CFA, Corporate Governance, CPA, Derivative Strategy, Enron, executive stock options, Harry Markowitz, Harvard Business School, Jeff Skilling, John Maynard Keynes, Ken Lay, Leverage, Long Term Capital Management, McKinsey, Miller and Modigliani, Myron Scholes, risk, Robert Merton, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, securitization | Category: Security Analysis, featured | Leave a comment | Short urlEfficient Market Hypothesis By John Schroy, on June 27th, 2006 | Leave a comment  In an editorial published on June 27, 2006, Burton G. Malkiel joined with John C. Bogle of the Vanguard Group, to fight for “capitalization-weighted indexing” against the insurgency of Jeremy Siegel, Eugene Fama, Robert Arnott, and Kenneth French, proponents of a heretical notion of “fundamental-weighted indexing”. The first casualty in this war has been the Efficient Market Hypothesis, first nicked by Professor Siegel in his opening article. June 27th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Burton Malkiel, capital flow analysis, efficient market hypothesis, Eugene Fama, index funds, Jeremy Siegel, John Bogle, Kenneth French, Long Term Capital Management, Robert Arnott, Vanguard Group, Wall Street Journal | Category: Economic Theory | Leave a comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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