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Mark MariottiApril 17, 2008
Move compliance metrics to the front
Analysis of: Study: subprime crisis spurs lawsuits | money.cnn.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
a) existing federal, state amd municpal compliance check and balances exist b) move Rating Agency solutions to subprime mortgage losses in the large secondary market traunces into the origination systems & procedures
Mark MariottiMarch 18, 2008
Very profitable business - eats you alive if you don't watch it closely
Analysis of: Standard Insurers Nab More Nonstandard Auto Biz | www.propertyandcasualtyinsurancenews.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
1) Full Disclosure - Mark Mariotti ran a nonstandard auto operation (California admitted MGA with Ohio company underwriting)  in Southern California during the 1970's &  '80s with a direct-marketing model and a non-internet online (yes back then) reservation style quoting system....
Mark MariottiMarch 12, 2008
From womb to tomb - have we got a card for you!
Analysis of: Ameriprise Financial and MasterCard Worldwide Launch Credit, Debit Product Suite | biz.yahoo.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
1) Amerprise has been aggressive ever since its Personal Advisor and Banking separation from Amercan Express 2) MasterCard appears to be the predominate card network
January 15, 2008
Deconstructing Alpha
Analysis of: And God created alpha | www.economist.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
The methodical attribution of observed returns to particular factors is long overdue, and the Lo-Patel paper is another insightful contribution to the concerns over fees vs performance for hedge funds. As an additional data point for practitioners, research shows that, beyond asset selection...
Mark MariottiNovember 27, 2007
Wyoming... the next out-sourcing frontier
Analysis of: Forget India; Call Centers Boom in Caribbean | abcnews.go.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
1) Forget India; Caribbean; Russia... Call Centers will Boom in small towns within the United States. 2) We are already seeing the peek of offshore out-sourcing. We have clients that have even capitalized and managed the offshore operation to make things more seamless. 3) Plenty of our clients have...
November 20, 2007
Leveraging Development Resources
Analysis of: Software as a Service Courts Developers | www.techcrunch.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Software as a service is focusing the industries on consolidating scarce resources that can be further leveraged, decrease in customization of applications, and the emergence of configurable business services that can be changed by workers with little technical experience.
Mark MariottiNovember 19, 2007
Perfect Match...
Analysis of: Paperless Chase: Fiserv Agrees To Buy CheckFree | online.wsj.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
1) Financial services offered by FISERV are now more robust and provide portfolio management services to the industry 2) Most financial services companies MUST rely on the expertise of solution providers - FISERV serves this market well with the new addition of CheckFree
Mark MariottiNovember 6, 2007
Bark vs Byte...
Analysis of: Microsoft Threatens to Terminate Xbox Live Cheaters | www.pcworld.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
1) The Internal Revenue Service has longed for complete voluntary compliance, in lieu of this... the bark of the IRS and their published bites of cheaters are all well too known. 2) Microsoft (and all other providers who desire a level of fair-play) must bark (threaten) any users who have tampered...
October 22, 2007
Risks are like electrons, they can smeared all over the universe but they do not ever go away
Analysis of: One World, Taking Risks Together | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
The comparison to 1907 is a reasonable one ( read the Panic of 1907, Bruner/Carr) but here we have government stepping in--led by Goldman Sachs alumni to bail out the financial elite that rule the Canyons of Wall Street and every money center in the world. It is as transparent as Morgan's locking the...
October 19, 2007
Gold Should Not Be Used as an Alternative in Portfolios
Analysis of: Gold Gains as Euro Rebounds Versus Dollar; Silver Is Steady | www.bloomberg.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
The article implies gold's recent price action qualifies it as an alternative investment.  However, short-term observations of price action and the relationship of the price of gold and the dollar are not convincing enough to cause one to invest in gold.  Trade gold, perhaps, but not invest....

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