R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes expresses skepticism toward Goldman Sach's claims that it did not have full access to information on AIG's finances in its proprietary trades with the troubled insurer in 2005 and 2006. Read the full story by Greg Gordon, "Goldman admits it...
R&R Consulting Principal Ann Rutledge talks with Bloomberg Television about the "toxic" resecuritizations that doomed AIG. Watch the Bloomberg telecast on YouTube, "Rutledge Says AIG Had 'Recipe For Implosion' With CDOs: Video," and read a write-up on Bloomberg.com, "How Lou Lucido Let AIG Lose $35 Billion...
At this very moment, throughout this great land of ours, ordinary people dwelling far away from the chaotic nonsense known as Wall Street are probably wondering how so much money could be wasted by so few people -- people who, in fact, live in another...
The March 20 edition of The Wall Street Journal quotes R&R's Ann Rutledge calling for rating agencies to develop new ways to rate debt as they benefit from the government's bailout program:"[Rating agencies] are still paid for their ratings by the companies whose bonds they...
R&R's Sylvain Raynes was interviewed by Joe Soucheray on station KSTP in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 18, for his views on the AIG bailout. Listen to the podcast on KSTP's Web site. Sylvain Raynes's part of the discussion comes about three-quarters of the way...
"The system was undermined by asking the American people, under the veil of secrecy, to bail out one company when in fact they wanted to bail out someone else," said Sylvain R. Raynes, an authority in structured finance and a founder of R & R...
...Echoing some other experts, Ann Rutledge, a credit derivatives expert and founding principal of R&R Consulting, said she is not sure how badly the financial system would have been rocked if the government had let AIG file for bankruptcy protection. But she fears that the...