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SEC 'Missed Opportunity' to Save Auction-Rate Market Investors
By Michael McDonald and David Scheer
September 8, 2008

Top accounting firms crack whip
By Chelsea Emery
August 28, 2008

Auction-Rate Crackdown Widens
by Liz Rappaport
July 25, 2008
US secondary auction-rate market shrugs off lawsuit
by Lisa Lambert
July 25, 2008
UBS Denies Auction-Rate Fraud, Says It Was 'Honest and Ethical'
by Michael McDonald
July 25, 2008
UBS Sets Things Right
by Vidya Ram
July 16, 2008
UBS Extends Olive Branch to Auction-Rate Customers
by Vincent Ryan
July 16, 2008
Harsh lesson in student lending
by Michael McDonald
July 14, 2008
More than half of ARS holders take writedowns
by Michael Mackenzie
July 7, 2008
Companies holding auction rate securities suffer
by Aline van Duyn
June 19, 2008
U.S. auction-rate writedowns hit $1.85 bln - study
By Emily Chasan
June 4, 2008
Discounts leave disappointed investors hanging on
By Aline van Duyn and Michael Mackenzie
June 3, 2008
Companies split on taking ARS cash hit
By Megan Johnston
June 2, 2008
Auction-Rate Securities Get No Bidders
By Mike Meyers and Chris Serres
May 25, 2008
Auction-Rate Securities Give Firms Grief
By Liz Rappaport
May 27, 2008
Auction-Rate Losses Cost Google, UPS $1.8 Billion
By Michael McDonald and Jeremy R. Cooke
May 19, 2008
Cos. Face Auction Rate Insecurities
By Tammy Whitehouse
May 13, 2008
Credit Crunch - Auction-Rate Securities: From Bad To Worse   
By Vidya Ram
April 18, 2008

The Bond Buyer

Secondary ARS Market Struggles to Emerge   
By Dakin Campbell
April 17, 2008
Buyers Be Where? Auction-rate securities are hitting businesses large and small...  
By Alan Rappeport
April 1, 2008
Hard Times for Auction Rate Securities  
By Chris Kentouris
March 31, 2008
New exchanges to rescue? No way, say skeptics of secondary market. 'Security class is going to die.'  
By Megan Johnston
March 10, 2008
Litman Audacity
Taxpayers dare--and win big--in a public securities valuation case
  

By Espen Robak
December 2007
Summary: How to Get a Fair Price  
By Corey Goldman
October 25 2007
The Valuation Equation  
By Jacob Bunge
November 2007
SEC Proposes Easing Resale Rule  
By Christopher Faille
November 2007
New Rule 144: Lower Illiquidity Discounts and Another Boost for the PIPE Market?  
By Espen Robak
November/December 2007
A "Fair Market" Approach To Valuing Stock Options  
By Espen Robak
October 2007
Summary: Market Awaits Shortened 144 Holding Period
By Max Frumes
September 2007
More Sparring Over Fair Standards for Valuation
By Tammy Whitehouse
August 2007
SEC OKs Nasdaq Portal Despite Data Concerns 
By Elizabeth LeBras
August 2007
The Boards' have begun finalizing FAS141R and IFRS 3  
By Espen Robak
August 2007
FASB Rule May Outlaw Block Discount Valuations 
By Elizabeth LeBras
August 2007
Valuation expert observes "staggering amount of inconsistencies in how hedge funds mark their portfolios," warns "NAV valuations may be all wrong," publishes White Paper 
By Benedicte Gravrand
July 10 2007
Summary: Rule 415's Slim Pickings - Investors Stuck with Restricted Securities Face Holding On on Private Sales
By Joe Gose
May 2007
"Best Guess" Valuations Are No Longer Good Enough  
By Espen Robak
April 26 2007
Feature: Tracking Fair Value  
By Ken MacFadyen
February 2007
Can ESOARS Cure Option-Expensing Pains?  
By Tammy Whitehouse
February 2007
Restricted Securities And Illiquidity Discounts  (View as PDF)
By Espen Robak, CFA
February 2007
Lemons or Lemonade? A Fresh Look At Restricted Stock Discounts
By Espen Robak, CFA
January 2007
Introducing Liquistat™: A Completely New Way Of Determining DLOM  (View as PDF)
By Espen Robak, CFA
January 2007

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