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By early 2008 asset-backed and financial-sector commercial paper made up 56% of its portfolio. The September 15, 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers raised concern about Reserve Primary's holdings of Lehman-issued paper, which then made up 1.2% of its portfolio, as well as its other financial-sector paper. Among money market funds, Reserve ...
Lehman had been in talks to be sold to either Bank of America or Barclays but neither bank wanted to acquire the entire company. [125] September 16, 2008: The Federal Reserve took over American International Group with $85 billion in debt and equity funding. The Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck" as a result of its exposure to Lehman ...
Lehman quickly became a force in the subprime market. By 2003 Lehman made $18.2 billion in loans and ranked third in lending. By 2004, this number topped $40 billion. By 2006, Aurora and BNC were lending almost $50 billion per month. [2]:129. Lehman had morphed into a real estate hedge fund disguised as an investment bank.
On Sept. 11 -- right before the "Lehman Weekend," the final government push to save Lehman -- Fuld was surely further heartened by Geithner's and Baxter's request that Fuld resign from the New ...
Apparently, Lehman had to route Repo 105 transactions through a British affiliate because no law firm in the United States would offer a legal opinion on the accounting treatment Lehman wanted to use.
Unable to sell Lehman's securities held by the fund, the board of the Primary Fund announced that it would freeze redemptions for seven days and reduce its NAV to $0.97 per share, meaning a money market fund would break the buck for only the second time in the industry's history. [45]
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Near the end Lehman had $700 billion in assets but only $25 billion (about 3.5%) in equity. Furthermore, most of the assets were long-lived or matured in over a year but liabilities were due in less than a year. Lehman had to borrow and repay billions of dollars through the "repo" market every day in order to remain in business.