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...So Kelleher went into business instead, training in accountancy at Arthur Andersen....
...When you think of the most coveted brand names in fashion, you may not think of Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch or Bear Stearns — let alone Enron or Bernie Madoff....
...The Big Four firms have repeatedly had to settle claims that they failed to oversee companies including Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and MF Global....
...secretary of the Treasury, Republican staff director of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee and senior analyst for taxes and trade at the Senate Budget Committee 1977-1983 Certified Public Accountant at Arthur...
...He went on to become chief economist at the Wall Street firms Paine Webber and Bear Stearns....
...He rose to become chief economist at PaineWebber (acquired by UBS) then at Bear Stearns (sold to JPMorgan)....
...Arthur Andersen....
...ResCap’s chief executive officer, the former Bear Stearns executive Tom Marano, resigned from the company earlier this month, though he remains a board member....
...The classic case is the collapse of Arthur Andersen, the accountancy firm, after it was charged in connection with Enron’s fraud....
...Most importantly, Sarbox has not restored investor confidence in audit companies after Arthur Andersen’s failure to mitigate fraud at Enron....
...Within a year, Arthur Andersen, its auditor, had disintegrated. Enron was turned into books, films, a play and a byword for fiduciary failings and fraud. But the real lessons went unheeded....
...A partner at his firm, Larry Iason, had been retained already by Mark Kurland, the Bear Stearns executive turned hedge manager who was taken into custody that day....
...” – Arthur Levitt, former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman ● “Everyone really did believe that things were going to be OK. [I] thought they were certifiable lunatics....
...Somewhere in the heavens, Arthur Cecil Pigou, the economist who invented the concept of negative externalities, must be smiling....
...So in the unique series of events that started with the fall of Bear Stearns, there was no way to deliver an orderly lesson on the danger of moral hazard....
...Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt praised Mr Cox’s decision to launch an internal inquiry....
...Gerrit Seidel, global head of the financial services practice at management consultants Arthur D Little, believes we have entered a period of accelerating mergers among banks everywhere....
...Arthur Levitt, who chaired the commission from 1993 to 2001, says: “Investors have come to believe that the SEC is the only agency that is protecting their interests.”...
...Wallison is the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute...
...Arthur Laffer, CEO, Laffer Associates (he of Laffer curve fame): “No I don’t believe any of it whatsoever, Michelle....
...This is particularly relevant to the new line of actively managed ETFs debuted earlier this year by Bear Stearns and PowerShares....
...When Arthur Gonzalez, the presiding bankruptcy judge, agreed with Enron in 2005, a shudder went through the bond market....
...Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies, said markets were consolidating after last week’s rally, which was predicated on hints by Ben Bernanke, Fed governor, that policy would be eased and stories...
...“It is definitely true to say that [Chinese state-owned companies] are all distinctive and somewhat autonomous fiefdoms that set their own agendas,” says Arthur Kroeber at Dragonomics, an economics consultancy...
...It has also threatened Arthur Martinez, chairman of ABN Amro’s supervisory board, with legal action if it feels he has not done enough to defend shareholders’ interests....
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