Write-Offs: 03.30.12

Author:: Dealbreaker
Updated:: Jan 14, 2019
Original:: Mar 30, 2012

$$$Corporate pension funds break away from equities [Reuters]

$$$Dealpolitik: What’s H Partners Up to at Sealy? [Deal Journal]

$$$ Bias, penguins in CDS auctions [FTAV, part 2 here]

$$$Co-Pilot Who Landed JetBlue Plane Was Voted ‘Most Understanding’ (in high school) [Bloomberg]

$$$How to Prank Your Boss (and Keep Your Job) [Bloomberg]

$$$ A leading global investment bank is looking for a single stock options trader to join their team in New York, in case that might be a good fit for you [DBCC]

$$$Oaktree I.P.O. May Raise Up to $517.5 Million [DealBook]

$$$New Regulators May Be Less Friendly to Banks [Deal Journal]

$$$ Will you go to jail if you trade on Congressional inside information? Maybe! [Davis Polk]

$$$Pimco ETF Rakes In Cash Despite Continued Stock Rally [CNBC]

$$$Crook tries to rob three Manhattan banks in 35 minutes [NYP]

$$$Students Sell Their Faces to Pay Off Debt [HuffPo]

$$$ Central banks ready to combat Greek market storm [Reuters] $$$ Things to know about the London Whale and capital models [DEM] $$$ Things to know about TARGET2 balances [Felix Salmon] $$$ Things to know about EFSF and ESM leverage and guarantees [TF] $$$ Here is a behavioral economics paper with the keywords "anti-social behaviour, nastiness, money-burning" [Universitat Jaume via Robin Hanson] $$$ "I have been a judge in the Miss Universe pageant three times, and I assure you it is not fixed. Even though Donald Trump made it very clear to us whom he would vote for, I always voted my conscience. ... I voted for the contestant I thought was the most beautiful." [The Daily] $$$ You should really think about becoming a credit analyst for BNP Paribas in New York [DBCC] $$$ Quest Software Brings in Competing Bid Using Clever Corporate Engineering [Dealpolitik] $$$ Maiden Lane Loans Repaid, but Assets Still Need to Be Sold [DealBook] $$$ Ray Dalio Is Building a Baseball Card Collection [NYM] $$$ The Nobel Foundation lost some money in the stock market [Fortune] $$$ Man Who Saved Mouse from Being Eaten By Cat Catches Black Plague [Gawker]

$$$ Fed Minutes Suggest Action Likely [WSJ] $$$ Ainslie Up 20% As Stock Hedge Funds Defy Four-Year Slump $$$ Best Buy shareholders caught in the crossfire [Term Sheet] $$$ FTC Clears Facebook’s Instagram Purchase [Deal Journal] $$$ "Bain is a financial firm, but Romney wasn’t some Wall Street bank-monkey with a pitch book. He was the guy who fired you." [National Review] [!!] $$$ Wharton-Bound Goat Trainer Failed To Get Her Pet Goat To Perform On National Television [IvyGate] $$$ A middle market private equity firm is looking for a senior associate in South Florida [DBCC] $$$ Bernanke ‘More Popular Than Justin Bieber’? [CNBC] $$$ Broken Brokerages: Finance Luminaries Join Fight Over Uniform Fiduciary Standard [NYO] $$$ Chinese acquisitions in US near record [FT] $$$ Obama Says First Dog Bo Is on a Diet [DI] $$$ Man Convicted of Assault for Punching McDonald’s Employee After Sundae Arrived with Hot Fudge on the Bottom [Gawker]