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    Lehman Brothers

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    Failure of Long Term Capital Management‚ Amaranth Advisors and Lehman Brothers Jose de Jesus Del Rio Sanchez Briana Sanchez Alex Santos Caitlin Yagow Wenhao Zhao Table of Contents Introduction Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century companies withinthroughout the financial industry have done their best to make as much profitsas they possibly could. They put forth every effort to expand their businesses and make them as successful

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    Assignment: Mini case (Letting Go of Lehman Brothers) AGHA ZAIN HAIDER Q1) Do you believe that the U.S. government treated different financial institutions differently during the crisis? Was that appropriate? This question that whether the government treated some institutions differently is not a difficult one to answer. Saving AIG and letting go Lehman brothers defines it all but they had their reasons. The (FDIC) would say that AIG having collateral whereas Lehman brothers showing no such promise for

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    Content Executive Summary 1. Introduction 3. Impact of crisis on Lehman Brothers 5. Causes of the problems experienced by Lehman Brothers 6. Explore how the problems may have been avoided 7. Conclusion 8. References 1. Introduction Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.‚ the fourth largest US investment bank‚ succumbed to the subprime mortgage crisis in the biggest bankruptcy filing in history. The 158-year-old firm‚ which survived railroad bankruptcies of the 1800s‚ the great depression in the

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    Detection: The use of aggressive accounting methods to hide losses made it hard to detect what the Lehman Brothers’ were doing wrong. In using the infamous Repo 105 trick it made covering up all the Lehman Brothers’ losses easy. Some say that the transactions were deceitful‚ but not unlawful. According to the grand jury report there is evidence that exists on violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other laws. The first problem with this scandal that made it so hard to detect was the CEO‚ other

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    Lehman Brothers 2. What was the culture at Lehman Brothers like? How did this culture contribute to the company’s downfall? a. Excessive risks taken by employees and those risks were rewarded. b. Questionable deals were rewarded like heroes. c. Individuals who question risks were ignored and dismissed. d. Company’s managers made numerous business mistakes. The risks caused Lehman to make an enormous amount of business problems and provided a culture that produced bad judgment and poor

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    The business model is risky because Lehman doesn’t have significant fixed income like other investment banks. The loss of capital support made it depend on the repos in the mortgage business. It has high possibility to violate the principle of repo 105 to perfect balance sheet. Lehman uses Repo 105 to lower its leverage ratio to keep its balance sheet looking good and I can’t agree with this method of disclosure. Leverage makes profits when the return is larger than borrowing costs‚ otherwise companies

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    THE BANKRUPTCY OF LEHMAN BROTHERS 1 The Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers: Causes of Failure & Recommendations Going Forward Amirsaleh Azadinamin Doctorate of Finance Candidate March 6‚ 2012 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2016892 THE BANKRUPTCY OF LEHMAN BROTHERS Abstract This paper looks at the failure of Lehman Brothers as the biggest bankruptcy case in the US history and the events that followed. The first part of the paper reviews factors that led to

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    Should Lehman Brothers Investment Bank Have Been Allowed to Fail? Name: Ran Linyan Table of Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Corporate profile of Lehman Brothers Bank 3 2.1 Corporate Profile and Business 4 2.1.1 History of Lehman Brothers 4 2.1.2 Lehman Brothers Investment Bank 4 2.2 Forces of Change and Competition in Lehman Brothers 4 2.2.1 Change in Lehman Brother’s Business Strategy 4 2.2.2 Financial Competiveness in Lehman Brothers 5 2.3

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    Collapse of Lehman Brothers

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    Collapse of Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers was an investment bank that went back to the 1850s‚ surviving the Civil War‚ two World Wars‚ the Great Depression and any other great misfortune that this 160 year old company’s history had gone bankrupt. Lehman brothers were an important part in the financial and commercial industries in the United States. People may have thought that leverage was a bad thing; they should have realized that a dry-goods store turned into a huge investment bank then

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    The Fall of Lehman Brothers

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    The fall of Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Inc (Lehman Brothers) once the 4th largest Investment bank in the world filed for chapter 11 of bankruptcy on September 15th 2008. It started its journey as a small dry goods store to one of the leading investment banks in the US. Refer Annexure 1 for the history of Lehman Brothers. Lehman had a particularly strong history in fixed-income products‚ later it diversified into other areas of finance such as investment banking and investment and asset

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