Rep. Paul Kujawski of Webster, MA, sponsored an amendment to the House budget for studying whether university endowments worth over $1 billion in the state should be slapped with a 2.5% tax. This has a created a little storm in academic circles in MA, with every two bit economist and every major media outlet coming out against the proposal.

National Western Life Insurance Company (NWLIA) is a little known life insurance company that trades under book value. It just reported earnings on May 7.

Article and commentary on insider trading probe on resource stocks.

There's big trouble in little Liechtenstein, and UBS AG's private bank just got caught in the crossfire between U.S. prosecutors and U.S. nationals with funds tucked away in the Principality of Liechtenstein.

Bank has different business than other company. They are selling and buying money. Therefore, measuring bank performance is different from measuring other company.

There has been many discussion about which strategy is better, fundamental analysis or tehcnical analysis. Technical aproach has been reinforced by trading software which can be used to predict price based on price simulation. The technical analysis is easier to use than fundamental. But when the market crash on October 1987, traders started to pay attention on the fundamentals.

"When the LBO firms went public, the next day, the game was up,” said Jarislowsky, whose firm manages about $56 billion. “Why is he going public? If it’s going that well, why would you let anybody in on it? Why doesn’t he just sell to his partners?”

Bank of America is now being urged to reconsider their Countrywide bid. Ari Levy and Christopher Stern, Bloomberg News, report that Sen Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wants BofA to consider cutting the $4 billion price tag for the deal. Investors have speculated that Bank of America may seek better terms or cancel its takeover of Countrywide...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating a possible conflict of interest created by Berkshire's 19.5% stake in ratings agency Moody's, considering the importance of any ratings provided to Hathaway Assurance by Moody's. The probe is part of a general investigation into conflicts of interest in the credit ratings industry.

Just like a gambler playing Roulette, it appears that investors are writing off the bad bet on black and now betting on red. This is meant in no way as a slur on the funds or the investors, it is just an indication of the fact that investors have had a taste of the good life with huge returns, on some funds, and now everyone is chasing those winnings again

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A New 2008 Financial Portfolio Add was made. See the article for details.

new black sheep on Capitol Hill are credit card companies. Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) introduced the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act (the C.A.R.D. Act), aimed at stopping credit card practices that drag consumers into staggering amounts of debt.

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The Carlyle Group again tops the PEI 50 list, having raised a whopping $52 billion in direct private equity investments over the last five years, and maintains its position at the top of the list as the biggest private equity firm in the world. Carlyle is followed by Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area in second place with $49.05 billion, and third place is taken by TPG with $48.75 billion.