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Posts Tagged ‘ Bradford & Bingley ’

Make Sure You Check Who’s Running Your Funds

Jun 6th, 2008 | By Merryn Somerset Webb | Category: International Investing

I’m reading a strange little book this week. It is called The Fall of Northern Rock and is written by an ex-employee of the now nationalised bank called Brian Walters. I’m not quite sure why Walters was the one commissioned to write the book, for the simple reason that he doesn’t seem to have any more inside knowledge into the affair than the rest of us.



Bradford and Bingley’s White Swan Event

Jun 2nd, 2008 | By Theo Casey | Category: International Investing

When is a Black Swan not a Black Swan? When the “perfect storm of highly improbable events” happens all the time.



Reigniting Fears

Jun 2nd, 2008 | By Chuck Butler | Category: International Investing

There’s been a return to risk aversion overnight, as some news from the United Kingdom has reignited the fears that the banks may still be sitting on a ton of bad debt… Of course, as Pfennig readers, you already know this…