Mortgage Funds - a failure of advice- August 5, 2008 Much of money management in the banking and investment world is to manage the differing liquidity demands between parties. For example, a company developing some property needs money for between 2 and 3 years, and a depositor who might want...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/mortgage-funds---a-failure-of-advice.html Big Science- August 5, 2008 This piece (with AMAZING photos) of the large Hadron collider is for all the fans of big science out there. When writing on such subjects last year Wired magazine deliberately miss-spelt "Hadron" by swapping the r and the d to...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/big-science.html Misunderstanding Risk- August 4, 2008 One of the things that galls me right now is how people get it so wrong about risk. Examples are everywhere. People that won't drink out of plastic drink bottles because of a perceived cancer risk, ditto artificial sweetener, or...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/misunderstanding-risk.html Quick, Restructure- August 3, 2008 Of course, you might consider it a bit rich banks shuffling company stakes out to investors through a new fund offer as a way of restructuring their balance sheets in a hurry. But think again, there will doubtless be some...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/quick-restructure.html Who owns your loan- August 3, 2008 An interestign story which will send a wee shiver down the spine of companies that own mortgage backed securities - and some of their investors too. If you aren't very careful not to lose track of who actually owns the...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/who-owns-your-loan.html Technical- August 3, 2008 I've received complaints from a number of readers about the format of the email feed that you subscribe to. Previously this used to be just article headers, but recently it was extended to include whole articles. Sadly, this wasn't actually...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/technical.html Friday Fun - Harder Edge...- August 1, 2008 There's a harder edge to these Tui adverts that are now visible in the Tauranga electorate... it's that they may be banned by our Electoral Finance Act. It seems that the EFA is only incomplete in that it doesn't ban...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/friday-fun---harder-edge.html |