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...second-tier companies that want government money, there's a golden-parachute limit of a year's compensation. The $500,000 pay and restricted-stock limits still apply, but shareholders (not a friendly constituency these days) can waive them in a nonbinding advisory vote, and management can act accordingly. (Read "Why Your Bank Is Broke...
...billion to save their custom-suit-wearing butts. The answer is that they were thinking about the same thing they always think about: more. Wall Streeters follow the Principle of More. I want more than I made last year; I want more than you made; I want more stock; I want more toys. And don't we all? It's just that their more is a lot more more than nearly everyone else's. Which is why President Obama is trying to say "No more...
...Markopolos said Madoff was earning 82% of the S&P 500's return with less than 22% of the risk, but his returns only had a 6% correlation when Markopolos expected "something like a 50%" correlation. "If your returns are coming from the S&P 100 stock index, you better at least resemble that stock's performance," he said. He also compiled statistics from S&P 100 index options and from the Chicago Board Options Exchange as reported in financial media. "There were not enough index options in existence for Madoff to be managing the split strike conversion strategy...
FINRA was created in July 2007 through the consolidation of NASD and the member regulation, enforcement and arbitration functions of the New York Stock Exchange. The former chairman of FINRA, Mary Schapiro, is now the new head of the SEC, selected by President Obama and approved by the Senate Banking Committee last month...
...across the board. Nations with a history of corruption, such as Thailand and Indonesia, also scored poorly, which makes sense since proper fishing oversight requires not just regulations on the books, but a government willing to enforce them. But even a relatively scrupulous government offers no guarantee of fish-stock safety; Canada, Pitcher notes, has great fishing laws but in recent years, under a conservative government, they haven't always been executed. "It's not just intention that matters, but actual performance," Pitcher says. (See the top 10 food trends...