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...Investor Wilbur Ross called attention to the "relatively unparalleled" values in the muni-bond market in March, when he revealed a $1 billion position. Muni yields almost never beat Treasury yields because both are considered safe, but the income from munis is tax exempt. That anomaly occurred earlier this year, and even though some order has been restored, muni yields remain historically high. "These aren't as safe as cash," says Mark Soehn, managing director at Financial Solutions Advisory Group in Chicago. "But the risk is well worth it." He recently put his clients into the BlackRock International Municipal closed...
...convicted murderer for the rest of his life by locking him in jail is neither justice nor a good use of taxpayer money. Consider the average 12 years of appeals for death-row inmates. Those years are a money machine for lawyers and end only at the execution. Wilbur F. Poppe, Denton, Texas...
...Branson, whose consortium includes U.S. billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, hedge fund Toscafund and the First Eastern Investment Group, proposes an injection of $2.69 billion of new cash into Northern Rock, with half of that investment from the consortium. The remainder would be raised through an offer to existing shareholders to buy new shares for 25 pence (52 cents) each?as opposed to a share price that reached 110.1 pence ($2.28) on Monday during turbulent trading. The offered price values Northern Rock at $413 million, which is considerably less than its current market value of $960 million...
...been your messiest co-star: Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Sean Penn or the baby pig who plays Wilbur in Charlotte...
...action is attracting a host of new players. Investment banks, which retrenched after the tech bust, are ratcheting back up, as are money managers like financial-services firm Amvescap, which last week acquired WL Ross & Co., a buyout firm run by turnaround specialist Wilbur Ross. Even hedge funds--whose trader mentality is antithetical to buying and holding--are taking pages out of the buyout playbook. Hedge-fund operator Eddie Lampert not only bought and merged Sears and Kmart but also installed himself as chairman...