Word: shad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrest is only the latest in SEC Chairman John Shad's war on insider trading. Upon taking office in 1981, he pledged to come down on violators "with hobnail boots." In the past four years, the SEC has filed some 77 insider-trading suits, more than it started in the preceding 32 years. Only two weeks ago, the First Boston investment firm was forced to give up profits of $132,000 and pay a $264,000 penalty for making trades in CIGNA stock based on intelligence it had garnered from company insiders. Last year R. Foster Winans, a former Wall...
...spending a good deal of your budget on what Cambridge has to offer in the way of gastronomical delights. Here's a sample of the area's finest (and not so finest). Good luck and watch out for the Harvard dining halls' steady diet of cod, scrod, and shad...
...home he was a fastidious, obsessive man who did not permit anyone to wear shoes on the carpeting; on the job he was a demon for organization, logging long hours as he supervised a 200-strong enforcement staff and meticulously reviewed proposed cases. According to SEC Chairman John Shad, Fedders demonstrated "unique executive and managerial abilities by increasing the annual volume of enforcement actions by over 50%, with 5% less personnel...
...telephone to get instant access to the 5 million pages of corporate financial information filed annually with the SEC. By interrogating EDGAR, investors will be able to identify companies with poor earnings performance or pinpoint firms whose stock is selling below book value. Claims SEC Chairman John Shad: "EDGAR has the potential to revolutionize the methods under which investment decisions are made and executed...
Ideally, sugar coating of profits is supposed to be corrected or protested by a company's external auditors. But since the late 1970s, increased competition among accounting firms has fostered some slack auditing. Says John Fedders, Shad's enforcement chief: "There's tremendous pressure on accounting firms to lower their prices. Some firms can, but only by cutting corners...