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...what the festival has become. In his press conference, Redford said Sundance has been "sliding" of late, blaming "ambush marketers" for taking over storefronts to promote their swag and celebrities who just show up for the paparazzi attention. "It kind of engulfed what we did," he said. "You end up with parties and celebrities and Paris Hilton ... and that's not us. Sundance has nothing to do with any of that." This year, by hiring a new festival director, streaming films online for the masses unable to attend and offering a category for low-budget films, Sundance is trying...
...past few months, a number of financial firms have instituted or beefed up rules that would allow them to force employees to return year-end bonuses. So-called clawbacks would be triggered by subsequently discovered misconduct and some firms say they may even apply in cases where employees made trades that looked profitable at first, but go sour. (See the financial crisis after one year...
...have always had the right to sue employees for ill-gotten gains, more firms are adding provisions to reclaim pay not just for illegal behavior, but poor decisions. And they are expanding those provisions to more employees. A few months ago, Morgan Stanley extended its clawbacks to trades that end up being losers. Bank of America is planning to extend its clawback provision to its top executives. And Goldman Sachs recently said bonuses for its top executives will be paid in restricted stock, making it easier to recoup pay down the road. (See pictures of the downfall of Bernie Madoff...
...certain that any of the banks would, at the end of the day, have gone along with any offers from BlackRock, an adviser to the Fed. Nor is it clear whether any deals would have been more profitable for AIG, given the rebound in the credit markets. But what is clear is that the troubled insurer had more room to bargain than it and its government rescuers have let on. AIG and BlackRock declined to comment both on the bond manager's report and AIG's bond-insurance dealings. (See the best business deals...
...BlackRock report said that five of the six biggest creditors of AIG's financial-products division would have been willing to end the contracts for less than face value. French bank Société Générale, which was AIG's largest CDS counterparty, for instance, according to Blackrock was willing to unwind the bond insurance its had bought from AIG on its lowest quality bonds for 90 cents on the dollar, or for 10% less than what AIG had originally promised to pay. About 30% of the $16.4 billion in CDS contracts that SocGen had bought...