Word: tailed
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...Beating up on hedge funds or private equity on the tail of a banking crisis is itself a little puzzling. Official reports into the financial crisis - such as the British government-commissioned Turner Review, published in March - assigned such funds only a peripheral role in the tumult. National politicians have been quick to come to their defense. "It is not private equity that caused the crisis, nor hedge funds," Mats Odell, Sweden's financial markets minister said earlier this month in the context of the E.U.'s proposals. "But in some countries, the political debate portrays [them] as the problem...
That onetime boyfriend and co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, looked on from nearby, biting his fingernails. Knox, clad in a white blouse with a Peter Pan collar and sporting a pony tail, described a friendly relationship with the murder victim, one in which the girls shared pizza, talked dates and sunbathed together. That was in contrast to testimony earlier from Kercher's British girlfriends, who said the two women didn't get along...
...some extent, this is the inevitable cooling down of an overly intense relationship. But in economics as in love, breaking up is hard to do. Bremmer recently co-authored the book The Fat Tail, which details the political risks facing the global economy. (Major, unlikely events that are difficult to fit into statistical models are known as fat tails.) He counts the U.S. relationship with China among the fattest of fat tails. American corporations may come to see China as a rival - meaning they'll be less likely to fight congressional crackdowns on trade. The U.S. investment banks that have...
...months with interim HMC CEO Robert Kaplan, a professor at Harvard Business School and a former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, both to make the transition to HMC seamless and to prepare the portfolio for volatile market conditions triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis. Kaplan says HMC invested in tail-risk insurance and aimed to deleverage the portfolio. While various media reports have called attention to Harvard’s attempts to sell large portions of its private equity portfolio at the height of the financial crisis, Kaplan notes that HMC had been preparing for such sales long before then...
...take [Douglas] and he doesn’t play right away, he’s going to make everyone in front of him work harder,’” Walsh said. “‘This kid’s just going to work his tail off and get better for you.’ Mike was right...