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...alleged on Friday that Goldman misrepresented to investors, including financial institutions IKB and ACA Capital, the involvement of a major hedge fund in assembling a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities that the fund later bet against...
Paulson has become well-known in financial circles for his negative outlook on the real estate market at the peak of the housing bubble and earned billions in 2007 in part by betting against mortgage-backed securities. IKB and ACA suffered significant losses on the portfolio...
Additionally, Kimbrough said that under current statutes, financial institutions such as IKB and ACA are expected to research their own investments...
...renown has the ACA focusing its anti-bullfighting campaign on him as a means of drawing attention to their wider bid to end all bullfighting in France. Bullfighting is currently prohibited under a law that bans gratuitous cruelty to animals, yet it is allowed in certain areas of southern France where the practice is part of local culture and tradition. The ACA wants it stamped out everywhere and is about to embark on a series of protests ending with a big demonstration at the Nîmes festival on Sept. 13. "What fans of corrida don't understand...
...local schools over the weekend. He says bullfighting is too important to regional tradition to relinquish. "The raising and selling of bulls has played a large role in our economic, social and cultural past, and they still figure large in this seasonal festivity," explains Schiavetti, who says the ACA's move to scuttle shows by Lagravère are as widely resented as the push to ban bullfighting. "It's seen here by most people as an injustice and a mean-spirited effort to impose one kind of thinking on attitudes and events rooted in tradition." Kids, the pro-bullfighters...