Word: goldman
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...that this phenomenon is limited to Europe. South Korean and Taiwanese banks got hammered on their respective stock exchanges last week because of fear - based, again, on a lack of knowledge - that they had bought a lot of paper tied to the subprime debt market. And in Hong Kong, Goldman Sachs issued a warning recently that some of the biggest mainland Chinese banks that trade on the Hong Kong exchange - including the Bank of China - were also exposed. In early August a spokesman for the BOC had said its first-half losses tied to subprime investments were "minimal...
...government concentrator at Harvard, Alegría also completed a secondary field in economics and was a member of the Charles River Growth Fund, an investment club on campus. Alegría was to begin work in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York City on July...
...Perhaps the best way to think about investing in public shares of alternative investment companies is to consider what else might get you similar exposure. Often the answer is a more traditional investment bank such as Goldman Sachs, which runs the nation's largest hedge fund. Plus it trades at 10 times earnings, less than half of Blackstone, and doesn't have its tax bracket being debated by Congress. In fact, many Wall Street firms have significant divisions devoted to alternative investments. Among them, fund manager Schutz most likes Morgan Stanley for its lower valuation...
...hour tennis serve, motivational schlock, and ballroom dance moves. As other blogs piled on, word spread fast—and faster still when we reported on his shady consulting firm, fake charity, and partially plagiarized book about the Holocaust. All that Aleksey Vayner had wanted was a job at Goldman Sachs. Instead, by Monday, he became the most scrutinized student celebrity since Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 “internalized” another author’s novels...
...Largely, I went with the organization-kid tide at Harvard. I over-did extracurriculars and elbowed for internships. I joined Teach for America, which caters to organization kids just like Goldman Sachs does. But sometimes, I felt that sinking feeling as I did in the pool: The system is sick, because of the organization kid mentality. I overheard one student describe writing a thesis as “Hoopes-ing it up.” I saw one student cry with envy when another student won a Rhodes scholarship. I know someone who took a class hoping that...