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Harvard's Endowment Drops 22%; Marks Popping of Higher Ed Bubble
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

Harvard today announced that its endowment had dropped by 22% or $8 billion. The loss is greater than the total endowments of all but 4 universities. This marks the popping of one of the last...

Article | Dec 3, 2008 | Views: 1598 | Comments: 0
Tags: harvard, harvard endowment loss, college bubble

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Hedge Fund Manager George Schultze Cries Over Obama Treatment in Chrysler Bankruptcy
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

Hedge Fund Manager George Schultze is complaining because the government's bankruptcy settlement for Chrysler puts the worker's underfunded pension obligations above his bond investments. He...

Article | May 20, 2009 | Views: 378 | Comments: 2
Tags: hedge funds, george schultze, schultze asset management

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How Michael Burry Bet Big Against the Housing Market and Wall Street and Won
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

In 2004, while the housing market was going strong and Wall Street was churning out mortgage backed securities, a former Dr. and now hedge fund manager named Michael Burry began to take big bets...

Article | Mar 3, 2010 | Views: 640 | Comments: 0

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PIMCO Auction Rate Security Holders Money Still Not Liquid
Submitted by Sam Cass  (www.bloomberg.com)

Pimco, one of the largest bond companies in the world hasn't been redeeming its preferred auction rate security holders. It's still working through the mechanism of how to get the money back....

Article | May 31, 2008 | Views: 2616 | Comments: 13 
Tags: auction rate securities, pimco

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Brokerage Sweep Accounts Offer Safety but Awful Return
Submitted by BankMan  (bestcashcow.com)

Millions of investors have parked their cash in brokerage sweep accounts. In most cases, this is a bad idea.

Article | Mar 2, 2009 | Views: 979 | Comments: 0
Tags: high yield, brokerage sweep accounts, cash yields

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TD Ameritrade Agrees to Reimburse Auction Rate Security Customers
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

Think the auction rate security saga is over? Not. Today, TD Ameritrade agreed to pay $465 million to its customers to reimburse them for losses taken in the ARS default mess.

Article | Jul 20, 2009 | Views: 173 | Comments: 0
Tags: ars, auction rate security, td waterhouse

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Sallie Mae Offering High-Interest CDs
Submitted by CA Hagy  (bestcashcow.com)

Sallie Mae is one of the newest entrants into the online banking industry. What can you expect from their online savings accounts and CDs?

Article | Mar 8, 2010 | Views: 97 | Comments: 0
Tags: cd rates, online cd rates, sallie mae online banking, online banking companies

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The Beer and Internet Stock Story
Submitted by Oliver Reedy  (bestcashcow.com)

Humorous lesson on risky and high-flying investments.

Article | Jun 21, 2007 | Views: 3048 | Comments: 17
Tags: internet stocks, beer, alternate investments

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Ben Stein's Advice is Erroneous
Submitted by AronLiv  (finance.yahoo.com)

When not denying environmental degradation, Ben Stein is giving bad advice on mortgages, commodities and overseas investments.

Article | Jun 25, 2007 | Views: 439 | Comments: 1 
Tags: ben stein

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Grave Dancer
Submitted by jonathan  (bestcashcow.com)

Chicago-based hedge fund, Citadel Investment Group, bought at basement prices the distressed assets of the much smaller hedge fund Sowood Capital. The story here is twofold: (1) there is plenty of...

Article | Aug 1, 2007 | Views: 582 | Comments: 2
Tags: hedge fund-failure

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Money Market Fund Primary Fund (RFIXX) Freezes Redemptions
Submitted by Sol Nasisi  (bestcashcow.com)

One of the largest money market funds has frozen redemptions for seven days as the net asset value of its shares falls below $1. THIS IS A MONEY MARKET FUND, NOT A MONEY MARKET ACCOUNT. MONEY...

Article | Sep 16, 2008 | Views: 2474 | Comments: 1
Tags: money market fund, primary fund, the reserve

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Money Market Fund Returns Drop to Record Lows
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

Market market fund rates dropped to record lows this week driven by the drop in short term treasury yields. The top money market fund according to BestCashCow is the Vanguard Prime / MMF Investor...

Article | Jan 29, 2009 | Views: 242 | Comments: 1
Tags: money market fund rates, money funds, treasury money markets

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$50 TradeKing Bonus
Submitted by sagitarius84  (www.bloggingbanks.com)

TradeKing , which is one of the best online discount brokers, just sent me an email telling me about a promotion where if you refer a friend to TradeKing, both of you get $50. This is as part of...

Article | Aug 13, 2009 | Views: 156 | Comments: 0 
Tags: bonus, brokerage, tradeking

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Is It Really Worth $200,000 to Graduate from a Private University?
Submitted by Oliver Reedy  (bestcashcow.com)

I recently learned that it would cost me $200,000 to graduate from my Alma mater. It made me wonder if the cost was worth it.

Article | Jun 29, 2007 | Views: 1098 | Comments: 8
Tags: college, college tuition, university, university tuition

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The Biggest Gamble of Your Life (Is College Worth it?)
Submitted by Oliver Reedy  (www.aboutreef.org)

This is a really interesting article that I used as a source for my own college article. It's worth the read, especially if your going or sending someone to college soon.

Article | Jun 29, 2007 | Views: 382 | Comments: 0 
Tags: college, college tuition, tuition



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