R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge is interviewed in an article on how to address the monopoly rating agencies currently enjoy, to the detriment of the debt market and the economy as a whole. Read the full article by Vanessa Drucker, "Second Rate," on the FundStrategy website....
Summer movies don't really exist any more. After all, the summer schedule actually started last November with the release of Avatar. So it's really summer all year round, with enough tent pole movies to supply the world's largest circus. Unfortunately, there are no tents, just...
A controversial recent encounter with Jim Cramer on CNBC has had many people asking, "Who is Sylvain Raynes?" Quantnetwork gets to the heart of the matter in an amusing in-depth interview with R&R Consulting's co-founder. Read the full article on Quantnetwork....
R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes is among the experts interviewed by CNN's Alan Chernoff for a feature on the role of rating agencies in the credit crisis. Watch "The other economic culprit," on CNN, April 30, 2010....
MarketWatch interviews R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes on the importance of informed analysis in marketing CDOs. Read the full article by Alistair Barr: "Out of Thin Air: Synthetic CDOs, at the center of Goldman suit, inflated the credit bubble," MarketWatch, April 26, 2010....
F. Scott Fitzgerald said there was no second act in American life. He was wrong (just look at the political career of Richard Nixon). Likewise, Thomas Wolfe poetically warned us that we can't go home again. He was half right, but he never imagined the...
R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge is interviewed at length on the Daily Finance website about the need for drastic reforms to address shortcomings in the CDO market highlighted by the Goldman Sach Abacus case. Read the full interview by Peter Cohan, "Behind the $4 Trillion in...
As hearings on Capitol Hill explore the role rating agencies played in the financial crisis, Business News Network interviews R&R Consulting Principal Sylvain Raynes for his insights. Watch the full interview on Squeezeplay....
David Fiderer recently explored the deeper ramifications of the Goldman Sachs controversy in a hard-hitting essay on Huffington Post entitled John Paulson Defends His Toxic CDOs By Insulting Everyone's Intelligence." R&R Consulting's Ann Rutledge solicits his further thoughts on the subject. Ann Rutledge (AR): David, this...
R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge is quoted in an Associated Press article about the role of short-sellers in the mortgage securities debacle. Read the article by Bernard Condon, "Does Goldman case tarnish Cassandras of the crash?", Associated Press, April 21, 2010....