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14 Jun Rutledge: Senate Testimony on the State of the Securitization Markets

Posted at 14:54h in Credit Spectrum

On May 18, 2011, Ann Rutledge testified to the Senate Sub-committee on Securities, Insurance and Investments on the State of the Securitization Markets: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/annrutledge On January 10, her testimony was picked up on Mortgage Orb.com as Correcting the Flaw in the Rating System. http://bit.ly/jUyhm0 Check it out!...

06 May FundStrategy: End the NRSRO Monopoly

Posted at 07:15h in Credit Spectrum

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....

27 Apr R&R’s Rutledge on the Need for Objective Rating of CDOs

Posted at 08:39h in Credit Spectrum

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...

04 Jan Apocalypse of Structured Finance

Posted at 16:05h in Credit Spectrum

Around January 2007, I received a job offer from AIG Risk Management. I did not take the offer for various reasons, one being that I was still under a consulting contract with my employer at the time, but I vividly recall the meeting with Chief...

07 Nov The Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the US Financial Structure: A Common Theme

Posted at 16:42h in Credit Spectrum

A cautionary tale about finance The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, due to unforeseen resonance effects, is more than a watershed in the history of bridge design and civil engineering. It is an object lesson in the need to fully understand a problem before designing...