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-Marie Messier, about nine months earlier. Concurrently, the company’s auditors, Arthur Andersen, had collapsed after the Enron scandal. Vivendi had decided to issue a high-yield bond in the United States and in Europe to extend the maturity of its existing debt, so it could sell some of the company’s assets
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without being under cash pressure. We had to close the books in order to be able to market the high-yield bond. As I worked with the company’s new auditors to unpack our financial reporting, I was struck by disconnects between reported earnings and economic reality
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name they got leading up to the ’87 crash, were plentiful. Salomon, Goldman, Merrill and even Morgan Stanley had taken share from Drexel Burnham peddling high-yield bonds to whoever could use them. Technology companies couldn’t use these junk bonds. Research and development to advance technology cost too much, and either you
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, 201 Harrison, Al, 43, 47, 224 Havens, John, 125 Hawkins, Trip, 162 Hermann, Hank, 28–29, 88–89, 230 Hersov, Rob, 155 Hewlett-Packard, 76 high-yield bonds, 104 Huckman, Mike, 226–27 Huller, John, 141, 142–43, 151–52 Hutchins, Mitchell, 39 IBM, 8, 52, 55, 67 Indefeasible Rights of Use (IRUs
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would have them do to you Hedge fund: an investment fund with a specific investment mandate and an incentivised fee structure (see 2 and 20) High yield bond: debt sold to institutional investors that is not secured (on the company’s assets or cash-flows) HMRC: Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the
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-investment-grade” market, opening up the market to ventures that were too small or risky to issue regular bonds. Milken first began to push his “high-yield” bonds in the 1970s; by the 1980s, his firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert, dominated the junk-bond market, and his annual Predators Ball in Los Angeles had
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; it was investing. He was always on the hunt for new opportunities. In 1973, Milken had begun touting non-investment-grade bonds, also known as high-yield bonds, and later junk bonds, that paid exorbitant interest on what most investors saw as huge risks. Saul’s holding company, now called Reliance Group, became
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be a billionaire, too, if you were Jewish.” IN FACT, STEINBERG’S GLORY DAYS WERE ALMOST OVER. WITH HIS JUNK-BOND buddies in jail, the high-yield bond market collapsing, and new regulations making takeovers harder, Saul had decided to dedicate himself to the insurance business. He began reorganizing Reliance and developed risky
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be compensated for the additional risk through more yield (interest) than they’d get from safer bonds issued by investment grade companies or the government. High-yield bonds are more colloquially called junk bonds. During 2005 through 2007, the high-yield debt market was perfectly situated for the purposes of leveraged buyouts. Investors
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