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13 May 2010, 4:53 am
Yet all of them combined could not manage your money as intelligently as one short seller from Rome managed John Paulson’s. [read post]
5 May 2010, 8:59 am
I’m speaking, of course, of the sort of “speculative” derivatives trading in which John Paulson engaged, the sort of “bets” Goldman Sachs facilitated when it set up synthetic collateralized debt obligations on which its sophisticated clients could stake a position. [read post]
4 May 2010, 11:01 pm
We have to protect those poor souls who bet against John Paulson, don’t you see? [read post]
1 May 2010, 6:28 am
They also say Goldman messed up by letting hedge fund manager John Paulson pick some of the assets, despite the fact that his fund was betting heavily against the housing bubble (and ultimately made a killing when it burst). [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 10:30 am
The naked credit default swap is probably not much better at predicting real value--for years, the CDS prices on even the worst subprime deal were really really low (that's why John Paulson could make so much money off his short). [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 8:03 am
In this great post on Interfluidity, Steve Waldman explains why Goldman should have told Abacus investors that John Paulson, a "speculative short," had helped choose the assets to which the CDO was linked:That information would not only have been material, it would have been fatal to the deal, because the CDO’s investors did not view themselves as speculators. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 1:52 am
" John Paulson may well have felt confident that a mortgage meltdown was coming, but as Max Bialystock found out in the movie, fate and fortune can be fickle. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 11:36 pm
McCain, like Henry Paulson, supported TARP. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 5:47 am
On P46 of the complaint, they sent an email to Goldman after meeting with Paulson saying "we didn't know exactly how they [Paulson] want to participate in the space. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 12:07 pm
Goldman Sachs, ACA, and a hedge fund run by John Paulson structured the Abacus investment at the heart of the SEC’s case. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 6:52 am
Palm responds: In very simple terms the portfolio here was not selected by John Paulson. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 9:44 pm
According to media accounts, Paulson & Co. was looking to create new synthetic CDOs but because it couldn’t find enough ways to short mortgage-backed securities. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 2:38 pm
According to the SEC’s complaint, Goldman deceived clients by selling them a CDO whose mortgage-backed securities had been selected, at least in part, by hedge-fund king John Paulson, who was bearish on the deal and expected to profit on a plunge in housing prices. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 5:11 pm
The fraud seems to be the failure to disclose that John Paulson picked the assets for the investment vehicle - but someone had to, and anyone purchasing the assets knew someone was betting against them. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 12:44 pm
" (Which was true, since they were all taking the dark side of John Paulson's bet.) [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 11:48 am
When this CDO was structured, moreover, John Paulson was a middling hedge fund manager, not the Wall Street titan of today. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 6:00 am
Yet Paulson's goal wasn't a synthetic CDO per se. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 5:22 am
But a written response to the SEC dated last September, Goldman argued that the facts about Paulson weren’t material. [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 11:01 pm
The key to the SEC's case is that Goldman apparently did not disclose to ACA nor IKB and ABN knew that uber-mortgage short specialist John Paulson was placing bets against the underlying securities upon which the synthetic CDO was based at the same time as Paulson was helping Goldman and ACA choose the underlying securities. [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 7:16 pm
As I understand it, based on a quick reading of the SEC complaint, the SEC alleges that Goldman didn’t tell investors that John Paulson, a hedge fund manager who helped to determine the contents of the synthetic CDO, had placed large bets that the underlying subprime bonds would decline in value. [read post]
