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Structured Products: Another “Safe Investment” Bites the Dust

Nov 20th, 2008 | By Alexander Green | Category: Stock Market Investing

At an Oxford Club chapter meeting in Asheville, NC last summer, an attendee asked me what I thought about Wall Street’s much-ballyhooed “structured products.” My answer was brief. “Not much.”

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House Price Affordability

Jun 5th, 2008 | By Theo Casey | Category: Real Estate Investments

It is easy to think about the credit crunch in terms of banks. The banks made these weird structured products, the banks are responsible for the borrowing rate, the banks falling market cap is dragging on the FTSE, etc.

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