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Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street

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by Janet M. Tavakoli


  Sugrue, Chris

  Refco money, lending

  Suitability, application

  Super catastrophe (super-cat) business

  Survivorship bias, returns distortion

  Swartz, Mark

  Swensen, David

  Synthetic CDOs (hedging), credit derivatives (usage)

  Synthetic CDO-squared, toxicity

  Syron, Richard

  T

  Taleb, Nassim, Nicholas (black swan) (conditional probabilities)

  Tamraz, Cathy Baron

  Tannin, Matthew

  Cioffi electronic exchanges

  indictment

  TASS, net returns (decrease)

  Tavakoli, Janet M.

  Buffett Rule

  critical mass

  Tavakoli’s Law, statement

  Theory of Everything in Finance

  Technology bubble

  Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF), Carlyle creation

  Thain, John

  IPO origination, information

  Theory of Investment Value, The (Williams)

  Thermopylae, battle

  Third-party assumptions, usage

  Third-party valuations, occurrence

  Third World Conference

  Thrift crisis (1980s)

  Tillman,Vickie

  Tilson,Whitney

  Tobias, Andrew

  Total return BRKA, growth/value managers (contrast)

  Total return swaps, usage

  Tranches, trading

  Transparency, Sarbanes-Oxley promotion

  Tricadia

  Trust, restoration

  Tudor Investment Corporation, Pallotta management

  Tug of War (Erdman)

  Tversky, Amos

  2/28 hybrid ARM, fixed interest payment amount

  U

  Undercapitalized managers, impact

  Union Fire Company, Franklin initiation

  United Nations Security Council, Resolution

  United States, Iran suspicions

  United States Department of Housing and Urgan Development (HUD) problems

  Unobservable inputs, usage

  Unwinding the position

  Upside down mortgage (defined)

  U.S. subprime losses, IMF estimates

  V

  Value destruction, permanency

  Value opportunities, Buffett search

  Vanderbilt Mortgage

  Volatility, control

  W

  Wachovia

  Wald, Jonathan

  Waldorf, Michael

  Wall Street Journal, Buffett appreciation

  Washington Mutual (Wa Mu)

  Welch, Jack

  Wells Fargo

  West, Mae

  Wertheimer, Eitan

  Wertheimer, Ariel

  Wertheimer, Stef

  When Genius Failed (Lowenstein)

  Whim of Iron (Marin blog)

  Whitney, Meredith

  Why We Fight

  Wighton, David

  Williams, John Burr

  Willis, Gerri

  Winston, Harry

  WorldCom, scandal

  Wright, Kirk

  Y

  Yale Endowment, private equity investments

  Yield spread premium

  Young, Donald

  Z

  Zero subprime-backed investments, Gordian Knot purchase

 

 

 


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