Regulators should stop bond insurer dividends: Ackman
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Bill Ackman, founder of hedge fund group Pershing Square Capital Management, told regulators on Wednesday the two biggest U.S. bond insurers face combined losses of over $22 billion from from bonds they've insured, and should be forced to stop paying dividends.
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U.S. regulators, led by the Securities and Exchange Commission, are probing how financial firms priced mortgage securities on their books and whether they should have told investors earlier about the declining value of those securities, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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American International Group Inc.  AIG.N, the world's largest insurer by market value, on Monday  said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may take civil  action against it for issuing "false and misleading" statements  to investors.
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A U.S. financial regulator on Tuesday said big investment banks that played a role in the subprime mortgage problems should be required to reinvest in local communities.
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MBIA Inc , the world's largest bond insurer, on Wednesday slashed its common stock dividend 62 percent as part of a plan to strengthen capital and preserve the "triple-A" credit ratings it depends on to operate normally.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday ordered mutual funds to stop paying higher commissions to brokers who promote the companies&#39; funds. The agency also required portfolio managers to reveal investments in funds they ...
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Impac Mortgage Holdings, a California home lender that suspended some operations last month, now plans to cease almost all lending and omit dividends for the rest of 2007 after âdisruptionsâ caused by rising defaults.
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The proposal to break-up the businesses of bond insurers into two separate segments, with one covering "good" municipal debt and the other covering "bad" structured finance debt, may lead to years of litigation, said Bank of America analysts, in a note to clients, late last week.
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Under the agreement, the troubled bond insurance firm, ACA, will be restricted in issuing dividends to its parent company.
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Under the agreement, the troubled bond insurance firm,  ACA, will be restricted in issuing dividends to its parent company.
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Bonds aren't compelling investments in today's market. Dividend fan Mathew Emmert tells you why.
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(Associated Press) The Securities and Exchange Commission will propose soon a plan to tighten governance at the nation&#39;s stock exchanges to ensure they are serving the public interest, SEC Chairman William Donaldson said Friday.
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TOKYO  - A Japanese securities market overseer recommended Friday that U.S. bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald Securities be disciplined for illegally using its own accounts to absorb trades ordered by clients.
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The McDonaldÂs Corporation said that hedge fund investor William A. Ackman planned to buy more than $793.8 million worth of shares.
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A new SEC rule may not solve all your woes with brokers.
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Regulators said on Wednesday that  Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  should be able to unwind the  positions of its two troubled hedge funds without causing wider  financial market distress.
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Investor's Business Daily - Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke wrote Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., saying he does not think caps on investment limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to be lifted. Schumer and other lawmakers had argued that easing lending restrictions to let such government-sponsored enterprises offer more mortgages could help calm markets.