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Several money funds and institutional cash funds had significant exposure to Lehman with the institutional cash fund run by The Bank of New York Mellon and the Reserve Primary Fund, a money market fund, both falling below $1 per share, called "breaking the buck", following losses on their holdings of Lehman assets. In a statement The Bank of ...
New York Fed General Counsel Thomas Baxter, who participated in the government's final efforts to save Lehman in the days before its bankruptcy, confirmed to Valukas "In no way was the idea to ...
According to bankruptcy examiner Anton Valukas, the seeds of Lehman's Sept. 15, 2008, bankruptcy were sown in 2006, aggressively fertilized throughout 2007 and 2008's first two quarters, and ...
The Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck" as a result of its exposure to Lehman Brothers securities. [ 126 ] September 17, 2008: Investors withdrew $144 billion from U.S. money market funds , the equivalent of a bank run on money market funds , which frequently invest in commercial paper issued by corporations to fund their operations and ...
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 ...
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has slapped Big Four audit firm Ernst & Young with civil fraud charges for its alleged role in the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The theory is simple: Lehman ...
In the financial turmoil following the September 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, just one month after Brown's death, the Reserve Fund saw a run on its investments after it marked down to zero the value of assets it had invested in Lehman's securities, forcing it to "break the buck", leaving investors who had held onto their investments in ...
Lehman's back in business, as an aggressive player in the post-crisis commercial real ... Now, thanks to its deep institutional knowledge and unique bankruptcy status, the new Lehman manages $14.4 ...