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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...
According to Law School Professor Jesse M. Fried ’86, the question at the heart of the case is whether or not hedge fund manager John Paulson’s involvement in structuring the portfolio in 2006 was “material”—that is, significant to a buyer’s decision to purchase the securities...
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...
That investment is showing some positive signs. Handset sales began slowly improving in late 2009 as Jha set about changing Motorola's 9-to-5 corporate culture and wooed top talent away from competitors. He scrapped much of the 2009 product portfolio in favor of new smart-phone offerings, all running Google's Android operating platform. (Get the latest gadget news and reviews at Techland.com...
...Washington, middle schoolers would be paid for a portfolio of five different metrics, including attendance and good behavior. If they hit perfect marks in every category, they could make $100 every two weeks. Schools in Dallas got the simplest scheme and the one targeting the youngest children: every time second-graders read a book and successfully completed a computerized quiz about it, they earned $2. Straightforward - and cheap. The average earning would turn out to be about $14 (for seven books read) per year...