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...would certainly discourage me," says Ted Mandigo, director of TR Mandigo & Co., a hospitality consulting firm. "In the long term, I think it may trade at a discount to its peers because of the lack of control," he says...
Earlier this year, the British government hired management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co. to suggest ways the country's National Health Service (NHS) might save money in the face of rising health-care costs. But when a portion of McKinsey's confidential work calling for a 10% cut in the NHS workforce was leaked to the British press last week, politicians rushed to the airwaves to reject the report they themselves had commissioned. "That's not what we are about," Minister of Health Mike O'Brien told the BBC. "In core frontline services, we need more staff rather than fewer...
...last time insider selling was as high as it is now was in the period from late 2006 to late 2007. It was right after that insider-selling surge that the stock market began its long painful decline, says Charles Biderman, CEO of TrimTabs, an independent institutional research firm...
...This past Sunday, The New York Times reported on one of the financial industry’s newest tactics—to securitize not mortgages, but bought-out life insurance policies. Wall Street firms buy policies from holders, continuing to pay monthly premiums until the original policyholder dies and the firm collects the life insurance money. The way in which these policies are bundled and sold as derivatives is suspiciously reminiscent of the way mortgage-backed securities were sold to investors. Upping the ante even more is a whole new set of ethical implications that comes with buying and selling...
...takeover interest in Cadbury grows - and with it, the prospect of a big payday for the chocolate maker's shareholders - pressure on the firm will mount. Should it choose to cling to its independence, investors might expect something in return. Squeezing more profits out of Cadbury, though, could mean cutting jobs. And with Kraft pledging to preserve U.K. staff as part of its offer, any such move might make Cadbury unpopular. That's left some analysts backing the Americans. Kraft, reckons Batstone-Carr, "has a better than 50% chance of success...