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Mutual funds
compensation of fund managers
derivatives investments
East Asian markets, investment in
financial sophistication of managers of
investing and
Orange County, California bonds and
peso-linked derivatives and
See also specific funds
Myers, David
Nacchio, Joseph
Nacional Financiera
NASDAQ
Nash, Jack
National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD)
National Westminster Bank
NationsBank
NationsSecurities, Term Trusts and
Navigant
Negative tips
Netherlands
Netscape
New-deal profit
New York Federal Reserve Bank
New York
magazine
New York Mercantile Exchange
New York Review of Books
New York Stock Exchange
New York Times
New Yorker
,
The
New Zealand
Newman, Frank N.
NewPower Holdings
Nicholas, Nicholas J., Jr.
Niederhoffer, Victor
1980s
Nitec Paper Corporation
Nixon, Richard M.
Non-recourse financing
Noonan, Timothy
North, Oliver
Notational value
Novell
Nuclear waste (Wall Street term)
Nutrition 21, Inc.
O'Conner, William
O'Conner & Associates
Off-balance sheet transactions
1992 speech expressing concern about
Enron and
Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) and
swaps
Offshore activities, corporate
Ohio Pharmacy Board
Olofson, Roy
Omega Partners
On-the-run/off-the-run Treasury bond trade
O'Neill, Paul
Ong, Belita
Optics of a trade
Options
basic explanation of
call
long-term stock-index
Meriwether's Arbitrage Group and
premium
put options
valuing
See also
Currency options
Orange County, California
Over-the-counter markets for currency options
Overseas Chinese Bank
Ovitz, Michael
Owens Corning
Oxford Health Plans
Pacific Asset Holdings
Pacific Gas & Electric
Pai, Lou
PaineWebber
Palm
Pappas, Jay
Parity (put-call parity)
Parker, Dane
Parsons, John
PCG Telecom
Peat Marwick
PERCS
Pereira, Paulo V. Ferraz
Perella, Joseph
Perelman, Ronald
PERLS
Perrone, Joseph P.
PG&E
Philippines
Phillips Petroleum
Pickens, T. Boone
Piper, Tad
Piper Jaffray
Institutional Government Income-Portfolio
Pitt, Harvey
PNC Financial
Poland
Pomrenze, Jay
Powers, William, Jr.
Preferred stock
novel types of
Preiskel, Barbara Scott
Prepaid swaps
Prepayment risk
President's Working Group on Financial Markets
Price/earnings ratios
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PRIDES
Private placements
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble v. Bankers Trust
Proxy basket of currencies
Prudential plc
PT Adimitra Rayapratama
PT Dharmala Sakti Sejahtera
Pulliam, Susan
Put options
Putnam Management
Quantum Fund
Quattrone, Frank
Qwest Communications
Raabe, Matthew
Ramius Capital
Random Walk Down Wall Street, A
(Malkiel)
Random walk hypothesis
Ranieri, Lewis
Reagan, Ronald
Receivables, transferring.
See
Structured finance
Recommendations
Rector, William
Reg FD (fair-disclosure rule)
Regulation and regulators
British
credit ratings' importance to
criminal prosecutions and
derivatives
exemption of over-the-counter
derivatives from federal regulation
failure to punish financial malfeasance
foreign companies, prosecution of
Japanese
loss-of-control daisy chain
prosecuting fraud
recommendations for
shifting from rules to standards
See also
Deregulation;
specific agencies
Regulatory arbitrage
Rekenthaler, John
Related Party transactions
Enron and
Reliant Energy
Restricted stock
Revco
Rhythms NetConnections
Rigas family
Risk-Adjusted Return on Capital (RAROC)
Risk arbitrage
Risk models
Value-at-Risk (VAR)
Rite Aid
RJR Nabisco
Robertson, Julian
Rogue Trader
Rohrbach, Clayton J.
Roll Call
Rooney, Pace
Rooney, Phillip
Rose, Charlie
Rosenfeld, Eric
Rubin, Howard
Rubin, Robert
Rusnak, John M.
Russia
S. G. Warburg & Co.
Sallie Mae
Salomon Brothers
Arbitrage Group
bonuses at
DECS and
derivatives subsidiary (Salomon Swapco)
Krieger at
Meriwether at
mortgage bonds and
risk management at
WorldCom and
See also
Grubman, Jack; Mozer, Paul
Salomon Swapco
Samuelson, Paul
Sandoz Corp.
Sanford, Charles S., Jr.
Sarbanes, Paul
Saunders, Ernest
Savings-and-loan crisis
Saylor, Michael Jerry
Scanlon, Jack
Schmidt, John
Scholes, Myron
Schultz, Paul
Scott Paper
Sears
Securities analysts
conflicts of interest
Enron collapse and
Internet securities and
rating of stocks by
See also names of individuals
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Arthur Andersen and
Bankers Trust and
Bruntjen and
disclosure of derivative risks in financial reports and
enforcement powers
Enron and
Howard Rubin and
IPO schemes and
jurisdiction of
Kidder Peabody and
Levitt and
NationsSecurities and
Orange County and
Piper Jaffray and
Pitt and
private placements and
Regulation FD
revenue recognition practices and
Rite Aid and
Rule
simple fraud cases, tendency to prosecute
Sunbeam and
three percent rule and
treatment of traders in complex-financial instruments
WorldCom and
Securitization
Collateralized Bond Obligations (CBOs)
mortgage bonds
Self-regulatory approach to the markets
Sellers, Patricia
Sequa
ServiceMaster
Shanks, Eugene
Sharpe ratio
Shaw, David
Shearson Lehman Brothers
Shelf registrations
Shlieifer, Andrei
Shore, Andrew
Shorting stock
Sidgmore, John W.
Siegel, Jeremy
Siegel, Martin
Signature Brands
Silicon Valley high-technology companies
IPOs
Silverman, Henry R.
Simon, United States v.
Single-stock futures
60 Minutes
Skilling, Jeffrey
Skinner, Doug
Smith, Randall
Smith, Roy
Smith Barney
Société Générale
Soros, George
Sosin, Howard
Sotoudeh, Mohamad
Southampton Place (Enron partnership)
SPDR Trust (Spiders)
Special Purpose Entities (SPEs)
disclosure requirements and
Enron and
origin of
three-percent rule
Sperry Lease Finance Corp.
Spiders (SPDR Trust)
Spiegel, Thomas
Spitzer, Eliot
St. Olaf College
Stamenson, Michael
Standard & Poor's Corp. (S&P)
Orange County, California and
See also
Credit-rating agencies
State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Steinhardt, Michael
Steinhardt Partners
Stepanian, Ira
Stewart, Martha
Stock-index options, long-term
Stock market crash of 1987
Stock market speculative bubble of 1990s
CEOs and
See also
IPOs (Initial Public Offerings); Securities analysts
Stock options
accounting for
caps on corporate tax deduction for corporate salaries and
effect on behavior of corporate executives
at Enron
grants of stock versus
indexed
outperformance
reloading of
repricing of
valuation of
Stocks
betting against
Stocks for the Long Run
(Siegel)
Stone, Andrew
Stout, Lynn A.
Strauss, Thomas
STRIPS
principal-only
Structured finance
Collateralized Bond Obligations (CBOs)
Enron and
purpose of
Structured notes
complexity of
correlation risk of
credit ratings of
described
inverse floaters
issuers of
Quantos
sellers of
Thai Baht Basket-Linked Notes
Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae)
Subprime mortgages
Suharto family
“Suitability” rules
Sullivan, Scott
Sumitomo Corporation
Summers, Lawrence
Sunbeam Corporation
Supreme Court
Swaps
Bankers Trust and
currency
“diff”
difficulty of evaluating complex
Enron and
of Indefeasible Rights of Use (IRUs)
Japanese banks' use of
as off-balance sheet transactions
plain-vanilla
prepaid
as unregulated and immune from disclosure requirements
See also
Credit default swaps; Interest rate swaps; International Swap Dealers Association (ISDA)
Sybase
Systemic risk
Takeovers
corporate raiders
Tappin, Todd
Tauzin, W. J. “Billy”
Tax-avoidance trades
Taylor, Justice Gary L.
Technology and financial trading.
See
Financial technology
Technology Crossover Ventures
Tele-Communications Inc.
Telecommunications industry
See also individual companies
Tellabs
Temple, Nancy
Teneco
Tesobonos
Texas Instruments
Thai baht
structured notes and
Thailand
Thaler, Richard
Three-percent rule
3Com
3M Employee Retirement Income Plan
Tiger Management
Tjiwi Kimia
Tokyo Securities
Towers Financial
Toyota
Tracking stock
Treasurers, corporate
Treasury-bond auctions
Mozer's activities
35 percent rule
when-issued market
Treasury Department, U.S.
Treasury-Linked Swap
TriCapital Ltd.
Trimedia
Trump, Donald
Tudor Investment Corporation
Tversky, Amos
Tyco International
Underwriters Financial Group
Underwriting
disclosure of fees
NASD Rule of Fair Practice 44(c)
Union Bank of Switzerland
United Services Advisors
United States v. Simon
Universal banking
Unterberg, Thomas
Uptick rule
Urbani, David
U.S. Bankcorp
USA Waste Services
VA Linux
Value-At-Risk (VAR) measures
Value Line
Vanguard
VAR (Value-At-Risk) measures
Vazquez, Mitchell
Veribanc Inc.
Vinson & Elkins
Volatility
of currencies
implied volatilities
of mortgages
negative convexity and
objective measures of

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