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Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish
Section : Open
October 2007
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The Fourth Annual Trades of the Year
Section : Directions
February/March 2008
It could well go down as one of the most treacherous years in trading history. Credit markets imploded. Equity markets shuddered. Commodities ran wild. Now we settle up on 2007 with a robust recap of the year’s top subprime plunderings, commodities killings and other money-making marvels, and our inaugural survey of sell-side excellence. Prepare to close the books on a year many might prefer to forget.
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Goldman Stacks
Section : Directions
February/March 2008
Introducing the Trader Monthly Awards — ­recognizing the most outstanding sell-side ­performances of 2007, a year in which Goldman Sachs romped and Interactive Brokers surprised.
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Best of 2007
Section : Directions
March/April 2008
It could well go down as one of the most treacherous years in trading history. Credit markets imploded. Equity markets shuddered. Commodities ran wild. Now we settle up on 2007 with a robust recap of the year’s top subprime plunderings, commodities killings and other money-making marvels, and our inaugural survey of sell-side excellence. Prepare to close the books on a year many might prefer to forget.
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Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish
Section : Open
April/May 2008
The Peloton Brief
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The Trader Monthly 100
Section : Directions
April/May 2008
They're called hedgehogs and fat cats, and sometimes much worse than that. We present them simply as “traders,” though in truth most are technically considered portfolio managers. There’s one word, however, that definitively describes each of the securities-industry standouts who make up this year’s Trader Monthly 100: flush.
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Tombstone
Section : Closing
April/May 2008
It seemed like a great idea at the time. The dot-com explosion of the late 1990s was just beginning to percolate, and individual investors were snapping up IPOs as fast as Wall Street could churn them out.
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The Trader Monthly 100
Section : Directions
May/June 2008
They're called hedgehogs and fat cats, and sometimes much worse than that. We present them simply as “traders,” though in truth most are technically considered portfolio managers. There’s one word, however, that definitively describes each of the securities-industry standouts who make up this year’s Trader Monthly 100: flush.
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Minneapolis Exchange on Craig's List Posting: Not a Grain of Truth

May 2008
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Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish
Section : Open
June/July 2008
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Automatic Rifles
Section : High/Low
June/July 2008
With algo wizardry and relentless sales, Credit Suisse's Dan Mathisson and Manny Santayana lead trading's arms race.
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Speed ­Merchant
Section : High/Low
June/July 2008
Presiding over one of the fastest platforms in the business, Lime's Mark Gorton is taking his quant edge to new limits.
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Into the Light

May 2008
Like many of his hedge fund brethren, Chris Hohn is said to be notoriously reclusive. But the man behind The Children's Investment Fund has been enjoying something of a coming out party of late.
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Big Brown, Black Mark

May 2008
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Globe Trot
Section : Directions
June/July 2008
From the Midwest to the Middle East: presenting our second annual ranking of the World's Best Trading Cities.
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Grizzles Ready to Tame Oil Bulls?

June 2008
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Grasso Could Get His

June 2008
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Celtic Sinkhole

June 2008
Apparently Jim Pallotta doesn’t care if he loses money anymore. Despite suffering a 9% loss last year managing Tudor's Raptor fund, Pallotta tells the Wall Street Journal that he’s having too much fun as an investor in the Boston Celtics to care if he ever makes a dime.
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Trans World Furlough
Section : Closing
June/July 2008
Five months before 9/11, American Airlines bought TWA -- and the company has encountered turbulence ever since.
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Section : Directions
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From the Midwest to the Middle East: presenting our second annual ranking of the World's Best Trading Cities.
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Section : Daily News
June 2008
After months of negative press, downgrades, writedowns, and the public questioning whether it can survive on its own, Lehman Brothers pulled the plug on CFO Erin Callan and COO Joseph Gregory this morning. Is this too little too late? Or is a rapid turnaround in place?
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Paulson: We're Not Done Yet

June 2008
Speaking at the GAIM International hedge fund conference this week, reigning Trader Monthly 100 #1 insists that we are not out of the woods yet in terms of bank writedowns.
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Ex-Bear Fund Managers Arrested

June 2008
Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi, former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers who once sat atop internal funds invested in subprime debt, were arrested outside their homes this morning.
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Globe Trot
Section : Directions
July/August 2008
From London to New York, Monaco to Dubai: presenting our second annual ranking of the World's Best Trading Cities.
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Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish
Section : Open
July/August 2008
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Automatic Rifles
Section : High/Low
July/August 2008
With algo wizardry and relentless sales, Credit Suisse's Dan Mathisson and Manny Santayana lead trading's arms race.
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Speed Merchant
Section : High/Low
July/August 2008
Presiding over one of the fastest platforms in the business, Lime's Mark Gorton is taking his quant edge to new limits.
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Don't Forget to Turn In Your Badge On the Way Out

June 2008
Longtime futures powerhouse R.J. O'Brien is closing down its NYMEX floor operations, according to the company.
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TCI Mystery Solved

June 2008
For our last issue, we printed a clarification of Chris Hohn's 2007 earnings.
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Almost Vindicated

June 2008
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Summer Showdown

June 2008
After enduring a brutalizing market session that left many of them pummeled, 16 Wall Street traders took out their frustrations in the ring as part of the Trader Monthly's Wall Street Boxing Summer Showdown, presented by Milus watches, the Solaria Riverdale, and Del Frisco's. Thankfully for T3 Capital's Jay Neu, who skipped yesterday to get ready for his fight, he did not disappoint his bosses in the front row after losing in last year's inaugural Trader Monthly event.
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Nabbed!

July 2008
Police in Southwick, Massachusetts have finally secured hedge fund fugitive Sam Israel.
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted

July 2008
Fortune magazine recently interviewed Brian Hunter, who claims that he's being unfairly targeted by regulators. In fact, both the CFTC and the FERC are trying to go after him for alleged price manipulation.
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The Iron Unkind

July 2008
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Gossip Meets Boxing

July 2008
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They Can't Short Us Now!

July 2008
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How To Save Fannie and Freddie

July 2008
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Targeting More Profits

July 2008
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According to Whom?

July 2008
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Trans World Furlough
Section : Closing
July 2008
Five months before 9/11, American Airlines bought TWA -- and the company has encountered turbulence ever since.
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The Business of Burnett

July 2008
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Billionaire Junior

July 2008
Just as his father plastered the family name all over New York City and Palm Beach real estate, making billions in the process, Donald Trump Jr. hopes to do the same in Mumbai.
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Vive Le Work?

July 2008
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East Hampton in Need of Municipal Philanthropy

July 2008
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Money Honeys

July 2008
In light of the blockbuster success of ~Charlie Wilson's War~, starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, it is clear that the former playboy Congressman from Texas was adamant about only hiring genetically blessed women to staff his office. Lately, hedge fund managers are going the same route. You can teach any smart young marketer how to talk about fund strategy and fee structure, but you cannot teach them how to grow breasts.
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Who's Bailing Out GM?

July 2008
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Whipsawed!

July 2008
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Again, Mixed Results for TCI, CSX Corp.

July 2008
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Hedge Fund Startup Dream Fading

July 2008
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What's David Shaw Doing Now?

July 2008
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Schwartz Moving On

July 2008
After falling from atop the house of cards that was Bear Stearns, Alan Schwartz will be moving on from Bear's new home, JP Morgan. Word on the street is that he might end up at KKR, which announced earlier this week that is going public.
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"HE HAS NO IDEA! NONE!"

July 2008
Remember Jim Cramer's rant on the credit crunch one year ago this week?
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Macro Traders Prevail in Down Market

August 2008
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The Bear Stearns Whodunit 3.0

August 2008
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Falcone Whipsawed

August 2008
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Cayne Cheated Death

August 2008
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Best Trading City Poaching New York Talent

August 2008
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It Wasn't Me!

August 2008
Steve Rattner, forced out of Credit Suisse's DLJ Merchant Banking division over a bygone affair exacerbated by an Internet smear campaign, is giving those of the same moniker a bad rap. The "other" Steve Rattner, managing director at the Quadrangle Group, and manager of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's blind trust, is pleading with his peers in the same fashion as pop star Shaggy, "It wasn't me!"
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The Greatest Trading Story Ever Written

August 2008
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How To Set Up Your Own Hedge Fund

August 2008
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More Equities Talent Hits the Unemployment Line

August 2008
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Adding Value To Scorned Relationships

August 2008
Imagine this scenario. You recently got engaged...then the subprime crisis you got fired. The job market is tough, and for your fiancé, the grass has all of a sudden become greener elsewhere. (Remember, technically she hasn't said "'til death do is part" yet.) She hands back the ring, and trying to at least salvage yourself financially, you return to the jeweler. He says "I'll give you 30 cents on the dollar." Hurt again, the deep discount digs deeper into your soul. But there is now hope...www.idonowidont.com. For a 5% commission, chances are you can get back a lot more.
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Arisen From the Ashes

August 2008
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Don't Mess With Texas!

August 2008
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T Bammed!

August 2008
We can't get it right all the time. 80 year-old T. Boone Pickens, who has amassed a fortune in oil, hostile takeovers, and hedge funds, took a bath on falling oil prices in July. And it's not just other people's money like most hedge fund; half of it is his. But his philanthropy remains strong regardless. He continues to press forward with his Pickens Plan initiative to rid America of its dependence on foreign oil.
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Ethanol: The Biggest Scam That's Ever Come Along!

August 2008
So says Texas governor Rick Perry. Some of his residents can't afford to buy groceries, yet 30% of corn production is going into 3% of the country's fuel. The solution: use every other legitimate source out there. "We have the wind and we have the land," he says.
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Will Stevie Cohen Show Up?

August 2008
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Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish
Section : Open
September 2008
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Bountiful Pickens
Section : Open
September 2008
Earth's biggest oil bull on life, liberty and the pursuit of energy independence.
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The Tip Sheet
Section : High/Low
September 2008
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Specialty Dish
Section : High/Low
September 2008
AMEX specialist and restaurateur Keith Goggin serves up morsels of trading intellect.
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New Day Rising
Section : Directions
September 2008
The golden era of day trading may be ancient history, but the industry is far from extinct. Examining the unlikely, unheralded second act of the professional proprietary equity trader.
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CNBC: Top Young Traders

September 2008
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Trader Monthly 30 Under 30

September 2008
They're brilliant. They're powerful. And they're (probably) a lot younger than you. Our fourth annual honor roll of 30 of the world's finest traders under age 30 is the coming-out party for the market's newest crop of up-and-comers – and reveals the many ways in which these rising stars keep ascending.
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"Why Don't You Make Me the Treasury Secretary?"

September 2008
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30 Under 30
Section : Directions
September 2008
Any trader who survives these current markets -- among the most turbulent ever -- will surely be stronger for the experience.
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40 Under 40
Section : Features
September 2008
For this year's list of 40 of the industry's best players under 40 years of age, we scoured the world to find the finest up-and-coming bankers and private-equity pros. Behold the mavens who are making a name for themselves, shaping the global economy and leading their firms through difficult times -- and doing it all with a wealth of gravitas, guts and grace.
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National Treasure
Section : Features
September 2008
With a crisis at hand, Corsair's Ignacio Jayanti used his nearly two decades of experience in bank restructurings to help rescue National City and keep it independent.
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Tiffany Takeover
Section : Closing
September 2008
Once the gold standard of television ­networks, CBS was in decline when ­Westinghouse came calling in 1995.
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The Tip Sheet
Section : High/Low
October 2008
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Specialty Dish
Section : High/Low
October 2008
AMEX specialist and restaurateur Keith Goggin serves up morsels of trading intellect.
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30 Under 30
Section : Directions
October 2008
Any trader who survives these current markets -- among the most turbulent ever -- will surely be stronger for the experience.
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New Day Rising
Section : Directions
October 2008
The golden era of day trading may be ancient history, but the industry is far from extinct. Examining the unlikely, unheralded second act of the professional proprietary equity trader.
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Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish
Section : Open
October 2008
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Bear Down
Section : Open
October 2008
A look deep inside a storied firm’s collapse, and a tumultuous week that shook the Street
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The Tip Sheet
Section : High/Low
October 2008
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Rockbottom: We Might Have Just Found It

October 2008
To describe today's market action as a wild roller coaster ride would be an understatement. Never before has the Dow seen 1,000 point swings like we did today, with an 800 point swing just in the last trading hour, before closing down a pedestrian, acceptable buck twenty.
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Thank the Trading Gods

October 2008
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Lehman Probe Heats Up

October 2008
Federal prosecutors target executives at wrecked firm.
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Motion Detectors
Section : High/Low
October 2008
When a stock's in play, prop-shop operators Mike Bellafiore and Steve Spencer will pounce.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Winners Of Wall Street Fight Night

October 2008
Copper River Management's Andre Ameer wins Best Boxer award and shares Best Bout with Cantor Fitzgerald's Patrick Mitchell. MSCI's Cecilia Aza defeats ICAP's Kelly Vergamini in first ever Wall Street Boxing women's bout. Auction proceeds benefit Tuesday's Children and the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Read on for all the highlights.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Winners Of Wall Street Fight Night

October 2008
Copper River Management's Andre Ameer wins Best Boxer award and shares Best Bout with Cantor Fitzgerald's Patrick Mitchell. MSCI's Cecilia Aza defeats ICAP's Kelly Vergamini in first ever Wall Street Boxing women's bout. Auction proceeds benefit Tuesday's Children and the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Read on for all the highlights.
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Trailblazer
Section : Features
October/November 2008
Few women are among the upper echelon of private equity, and fewer still have dared to open their own shop. Meet Gwen Iloani, a pioneer at the top of her game.
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Medicinal Purposes
Section : Closing
October/November 2008
Raiding Pfizer's consumer cabinet helped Johnson & Johnson fight off infection.
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Family Bonds
Section : Players
October/November 2008
Doing business in South America's ­leading economy requires relationships with prominent clans. Exploring Brazil's dealmaking scene with G5 Advisors' ­Corrado Varoli.
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Fear Itself
Section : Open
November/December 2008
A look at the scariest financial freak-outs of the last two decades.
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The Quiet Man
Section : High/Low
November/December 2008
As he handles orders on behalf of funds in need of a stealth execution, Bill Byrne's handiwork goes unnoticed -- just the way he likes it.
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The Tip Sheet
Section : High/Low
November/December 2008
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Greenspeak
Section : High/Low
November/December 2008
With efforts to reduce CO2 emissions gaining momentum, Evolution's Andrew Ertel exhales some carbon-credit expertise.
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Distress Signals
Section : Directions
November/December 2008
How dire is the situation facing the financial system and the larger economy? A roundtable of distressed-securities experts share their outlook.
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Distress Signals
Section : Features
December/January 2009
How dire is it? That’s what three distressed-securities experts pondered at our recent roundtable discussion. Here, Highland Financial Holdings Group senior portfolio manager Dean Smith, Marathon Asset Management senior managing director Wray Thorn, and Sadis & Goldberg partner Lance Friedler go head-to-head-to-head on the future of our financial ­system.
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The Courtship
Section : Players
December/January 2009
Software ­executive A.J. Hyland had resisted private-equity overtures for years. Then he met Orlando Bravo, and a fast friendship was born.
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Three Rules
Section : High/Low
November 2008
When a stock's in play, prop-shop operators Mike Bellafiore and Steve Spencer will pounce.
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Crucial Injection
Section : Players
December/January 2009
After CytRx CEO Steve Kriegsman spun off his biotech company’s most profitable subsidiary, he had one move left: Reload the pipeline.
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Distress Signals
Section : Directions
December/January 2009
How dire is the situation facing the financial system and the larger economy? A roundtable of distressed-securities experts share their outlook.
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Risk/Reward
Section : High/Low
December/January 2009
As he handles orders on behalf of funds in need of a stealth execution, Bill Byrne's handiwork goes unnoticed -- just the way he likes it.
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Three Rules
Section : High/Low
December/January 2009
With efforts to reduce CO2 emissions gaining momentum, Evolution's Andrew Ertel exhales some carbon-credit expertise.
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Executive Order
Section : Players
December/January 2009
After CytRx chief executive Steve Kriegsman spun off his biotech company's most profitable subsidiary, he had once strategic move left to make: Reload the pipeline.
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Distress Signals
Section : Features
December/January 2009
How dire is it? That's what three distressed-securities experts pondered at our recent roundtable discussion. Here, Highland Financial Holdings Group senior portfolio manager Dean Smith, Marathon Asset Management senior managing direction Wray Thorm, and Sadis & Goldberg partner Lance Friedler go head-to-head-to head on the future of o ur financial system.
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