Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael MilkenBeard Books, 2000 - 276 páginas The story of the perpetrators of some of the most dizzing and daring financial machinations. |
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... percent of Capital's shares for $ 20 a share , which came to under $ 2.2 million . He then ousted most of the old management , had himself named chairman , and placed his nominees on the board . Wolfson paid out the company's surplus ...
... percent of Capital's shares for $ 20 a share , which came to under $ 2.2 million . He then ousted most of the old management , had himself named chairman , and placed his nominees on the board . Wolfson paid out the company's surplus ...
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... percent position in the stock ( just below the limit requiring formal notification ) , and lining up financial ... percent . Those new Montgomery Ward bonds would be offered to yield 4 percent , making the total interest payment $ 20 ...
... percent position in the stock ( just below the limit requiring formal notification ) , and lining up financial ... percent . Those new Montgomery Ward bonds would be offered to yield 4 percent , making the total interest payment $ 20 ...
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... percent of the votes . The outcome depended on success with small shareholders , and indications were that they remained loyal to management.22 The showdown took place on April 22 at the Medinah Temple , a Shrine auditorium on Chicago's ...
... percent of the votes . The outcome depended on success with small shareholders , and indications were that they remained loyal to management.22 The showdown took place on April 22 at the Medinah Temple , a Shrine auditorium on Chicago's ...
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... percent of the shares owned by banks had been voted for the present board . The Wolfson group received 74 percent of the votes of shares in brokerage accounts . Most shareholders in 1955 , aware of the brokerage firm failures of the ...
... percent of the shares owned by banks had been voted for the present board . The Wolfson group received 74 percent of the votes of shares in brokerage accounts . Most shareholders in 1955 , aware of the brokerage firm failures of the ...
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... percent share of their embryonic company , Digital Equipment . Olsen and Anderson had no choice but to accept AR & D's proposition . Without that $ 70,000 , there would have been no Digital Equipment . When AR & D later spun off its DEC ...
... percent share of their embryonic company , Digital Equipment . Olsen and Anderson had no choice but to accept AR & D's proposition . Without that $ 70,000 , there would have been no Digital Equipment . When AR & D later spun off its DEC ...
Contenido
The Use of Junk in Corporate Creation and Takeovers | 128 |
Rationalizing Takeovers | 129 |
Beatrice and ITT | 131 |
Plums in Petroleum | 133 |
T Boone Pickens and the New Corporate Raiders | 136 |
Boone Goes Hunting | 138 |
The Gulf War | 140 |
Drexel as Predator King | 146 |
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James Ling and the Conglomerate Era | 37 |
The Birth of LTV | 38 |
Project Redeployment | 41 |
Golfball Goofball and Meatball | 42 |
The Unraveling | 46 |
Endgame | 49 |
Michael MilkenThe Outsider | 55 |
Creativity on Demand | 58 |
Enter Milken | 62 |
The Academic Foundations of Milkenism | 64 |
The Early Years at Drexel | 71 |
Relationship Trading | 75 |
Invading the Market | 78 |
Weaving the Drexel Network | 81 |
Tom Spiegel and Columbia SL | 84 |
Fred Carr and the Revolution in Insurance | 86 |
Doing Deals | 90 |
The Milken Partnerships | 93 |
Drexels Failures | 95 |
The Early Deals | 96 |
The New Breed | 100 |
The Rise of Ethnics on Wall Street | 102 |
Insider Trading | 107 |
The Yuppie Generation | 110 |
The Rebirth of the Hostile Takeover | 112 |
Blackmail | 116 |
Reinventing America | 121 |
Attacking the Mismanagers | 123 |
The Rise of the Trader | 125 |
The Business Roundtable Battles Back | 147 |
Cameomail from Phillips | 149 |
Dont Go Hunting Without It | 153 |
The Counterattack | 157 |
The Contest for Unocal Begins | 159 |
Fred Hartley Goes to Washington | 161 |
Fueling the Regulatory Fires | 164 |
Unocal Beats Back the Raiders | 165 |
The Takeover Debates | 169 |
The Great Debacle | 172 |
Boesky Talks | 174 |
Giuliani and RICO | 176 |
Targeting Milken | 178 |
The War on Drexel | 179 |
Capitulation | 182 |
Congress Piles on Junk | 183 |
The Crusade Continues | 186 |
The Academic Evidence on Junk | 187 |
Milken Predicts the End of the Junk Era | 191 |
Drexels Demise | 194 |
Crime and Punishment | 198 |
What Was Milkens Crime? | 199 |
The Fatico Hearing | 204 |
In the Court of Public Opinion | 209 |
Prison | 212 |
Demonization | 213 |
The Shadow of AntiSemitism | 215 |
The Verdict on Milken | 217 |
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Selected Bibliography | 239 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael ... Robert Sobel Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
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acquisitions American April assets bankers became Beverly Hills Boesky Boone Pickens Brady brokerage brokers Business Week capital Carl Icahn cash charges common stock companies conglomerate Corporate crime Dahl deal debt decade default dividends Drexel Burnham Lambert Drexel client earnings equity Executive firm Forbes Fred Giuliani greenmail guilty Gulf Hartley High Yield hostile takeovers Icahn indictment industry insider trading Institutional Investor interest rates investment banks issues James Ling Joseph junk bonds junk financing Justice Department late later leveraged buyout Liman Ling major March ment merger Merrill Lynch Mesa Michael Milken Mike Milken million shares Montgomery Ward mutual funds NYSE offer pension percent period petroleum Phillips plea bargain profits purchase raid raiders raise Salomon securities sell sentence shareholders sold Spiegel stockholders target tender thrifts tion told underwriting Unocal Wall Street Journal wanted Washington Wolfson York
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