GLG News by Research, Sales, and Trading Consultants (US)

The traditional hedge fund model (2/20) can only function in a world where hedge funds have easy access to leverage.  While some investors can outperform markets to a sufficient degree that they can provide reasonable returns after fees without much leverage, most cannot.  Following the credit...

The SEC is once again trying to get its arms around the rating agency problem. The effort is fine as far as it goes, but the underlying cause of the problem is that the three leading agencies are publicly-traded companies themselves or key units of publicly-traded companies that have marketed themselves...

There is a bank capital crisis in Europe; while headlines focus on the largest institutions in trouble (UBS, Fortis, RBS), the problem extends to the smaller banks as well.  The search for capital will radically change the structure of the European financial system.

The GSEs succeeded in supporting the creation of a broad, deep, liquid national market for mortgages.  They used their market power to impose standardization on mortgage terms and underwriting.  Thus was born the "conforming mortgage." Mortgage insurance is an artifact of this history. ...

The GSEs succeeded in supporting the creation of a broad, deep, liquid national market for mortgages.  They used their market power to impose standardization on mortgage terms and underwriting.  Thus was born the "conforming mortgage." Mortgage insurance is an artifact of this history. ...

The GSEs succeeded in supporting the creation of a broad, deep, liquid national market for mortgages.  They used their market power to impose standardization on mortgage terms and underwriting.  Thus was born the "conforming mortgage." Mortgage insurance is an artifact of this history. ...

Of all of the Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs) and Electronic Communication Networks (ECNs) that have fragmented market liquidity and disintermediated traditional exchanges and broker/dealers, Liquidnet has by far the most innovative business model and technology. Enabled by a unique business...

1.) This was all perpetrated to encourage the debacle in the markets so as to create Sovereign Wealth Funds that have no reporting duties and can call all the unethical shots they want -  "Oil Crisis anyone". I bet I can name a few hundred people that had all their $$$ in stocks that supported...

While on the surface the rise of Level 3 assets at Goldman Sachs might be seen as a negative indicator on the bank's future prospects, history has repeatedly shown, including during the most recent sub-prime meltdown, that GS traders and trading systems perform much better than their industry...

Continued from part 1.