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Independent Insight
August 18, 2010
 
Goldman Sheds Some Light on Valuing Illiquid Assests
August 10, 2010
 

What Price Hard-to-Price Assests
August 4, 2010
 

Toxic bank assets haven't gone away yet
July 8, 2010

  Questioning Marks on Mortgages at Top FHLB
June 3, 2010
 
An Updated Approach To Determine Lack-of-Marketability Discounts
May / June 2010
  Treasury cashes in on Wells
May 20, 2010
  ValueSource Unveils Web-Based Pluris DLOM Database™
May 11, 2010
  Pluris Valuation opens Palo Alto office
By Eli Segall
April 29, 2010
  U.S. Treasury’s bank warrants up for sale
By Martin Mittelstaedt
April 29, 2010
  Auction-Rate Debt Value Rose 14% From 2009 Trough, Pluris Says
By Dunstan McNichol
April 1, 2010
 

U.S. Treasury Sets Auction for Bank of America Bailout Warrants
By Peter Eichenbaum and David Henry
March 2, 2010

 

Banks Are Sold on Warrant Auctions
By Matt Monks
February 19, 2010
Registration Statements: Form 10-12B:Basic Guide
By MoneyWatch.com
February 12, 2010

Financial Perversions Sold During Credit Boom
By Floyd Norris
February 12, 2010



PNC’s Bailout Warrants May Be Worth $253.3 Million
By Peter Eichenbaum
February 8, 2010

 

ISSUERS FACE RESTATEMENTS FROM 'DOWN ROUND' PROVISIONS
Read Espen Robak's comments regarding PIPES in this annual report

By Dan Lonkevich
January 19, 2010

How Can Hedge Fund Managers Maintain the Efficiency Advantages of In-House Administration While Addressing the Valuation, Transparency and Conflicts Concerns of Institutional Investors?
By Christopher Faille
Vol.3, No. 2
January 10, 2010

Opalesque Exclusive: Transfers of wealth through low valued and illiquid hedge funds present opportunities for tax efficiency - Pluris Valuation
By Kirsten Bischoff
December 14, 2009



 

Cheap Price of Warrants Helps Banks
By Matthew Monks
December 14, 2009

 

JPMorgan TARP Warrants Sold by Treasury Fetch $10.75
By Peter Eichenbaum and Joshua Fineman
December 11, 2009

 

 
COF is up!?
By Meena Thiruvengadam
December 11, 2009
 

 

JPMorgan Warrants: Investors LEAP at the Opportunity… Should You?
By Jared Levy
December 11, 2009

 

 

U.S. Should Delay JPMorgan Warrants Sale, Pluris Says (Update2)
By Peter Eichenbaum
December 9, 2009

 

 

Herz: Not All Assets Need to Be at Fair Value
By WebCPA staff
December 8, 2009
 

Cap One Warrants a Trend?
By Matt Monks
December 2009

 

Valuation of Assets A Ticking Time Bomb With Enforcers  
By Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
November 26, 2009

 

 

Committee Report: Valuations
By Brian W. Formento, David C. Jacobson & Espen Robak
November 2009

 

 

Auditors Take Closer Look at Deferred Tax Assets
By Tammy Whitehouse
October 27, 2009

 

 

Frozen Auction-Rate Bonds Cost U.S. $63.5 Billion, Study Says
By Dunstan McNichol
October 21, 2009

 

 

Fair Value Is Here To Stay
By Espen Robak
October 2009

 

TARP Revisited
By Riley McDermid
September 23, 2009

 

More or Less: Some Assets Will Get More Than One Price  
By Chris Kentouris
September 21, 2009

 

  The Bond Buyer

Interactive Data, Pluris Team Up To Offer Daily ARS Pricing Data  
By Patrick Temple-West
September 17, 2009

 

 

Risk and Reward (Fox News) – Espen Robak, Interview
September 2, 2009

 

 

Pinnacle Airlines Flight From Auction Rate Costs $16 Million
By Dunstan McNichol
August 31, 2009

 

 

As Banks Repay Bailout Money, U.S. Sees a Profit
By Zachery Kouwe
August 30, 2009



 

Wall Street Betrayal Seen in $4.8 Billion Company Debt Losses
By Dunstan McNichol
August 28, 2009

 

 

Timing of Launch Boosts Fortunes
August, 2009

 

 

Market Still Wary on PPIP
By Riley McDermid
July 31, 2009

 

Weak debut for PennyMac, run by ex-Countrywide execs
By Jonathan Stempel
July 30, 2009

 

 

Analyst says Treasury getting good deal on TARP warrant paybacks
By Alex Salkever
July 29, 2009

 

 

Blankfein Deflects ‘Backlash’ by Paying Loans in Full (Update1)
By Michael J. Moore
July 24, 2009

 

 

Goldman gets $1.1B in good PR
July 23, 2009

 

 

Goldman Relents, but Not Chase
By Richard Beales and Dwight Cass
July 22, 2009

 

 

Buyer's Remorse
By Vincent Ryan
July 15, 2009



 

Accounting Pressure in Obama Regulatory Reform?
By Tammy Whitehouse
July 14, 2009

 

 

J.P. Morgan to Send Warrants to Market
By Debbi Solomon and Robin Sidel
July 10, 2009

 

Treasury Drives a Hard Bargain
By Richard Beales and Rob Cox
July 9, 2009



 

Leaving the TARP Could Be More Difficult Than Planned
By Aline van Duyn
July 9, 2009



 

FASB Waves Goodbye to "Qs"
By Joseph Rosta
July 2009

 

Valuing TARP warrants a tricky science
By George White
June 30, 2009



 

U.S. to ‘Quickly’ Sell Warrants When Banks Repay TARP (Update2)
By Robert Schmidt and Rebecca Christie
June 26, 2009



 

Banks Fleeing TARP Face $5 Billion Warrant Repayment (Update3)
By David Mildenberg
June 10, 2009



 

Banks' Bailout Escape Not So Simple
By Lauren Tara LaCapra
June 3, 2009

 

Critics Cry Foul on New FASB Rule
By Riley McDermid
May 28, 2009

 

Lehman Role Probed in Selling Securities
By Amir Efrati
May 21, 2009

 

Banks Must Monitor Structured Credit
By Steven Marlin
May 21, 2009

 

CDO Downgrades Signal Market Pain
By Steven Marlin
May 13, 2009

 

Final Mark-to-Market Rules Make Subtle Changes
By WebCPA staff
April 14, 2009
 

Uncovering Fair Value
By James Armstrong
April 13, 2009

 

Judgement call
April 8, 2009
 

Fair value revisions would hurt hedge fund industry, says Pluris
April 3, 2009
 

 

 

 

Key change in accounting may boost banks’ balance sheets
By Ron Scherer
April 2, 2009

 

Industry Speaks Out Against Fair Value Changes
April 2, 2009
 

Mark-to-Messy Accounting Change
By Dan Bigman and Maurna Desmond
April 2, 2009
 

FSP Rule a Red Herring?
By Riley McDermid
April 1, 2009
 

Audit rule shift could hike first-quarter bank profits
By Ronald D. Orol
March 31, 2009
 

Investors Hope to Win Toxic Asset Lottery
By David Ellis
March 25, 2009
 

Fair Value of Illiquid Securities: Are We There Yet?
By Espen Robak
Spring 2009
 

Stanford Financial Accused of 'Massive' Fraud
By Lauren Tara LaCapra
February 17, 2009
 

BNY Mellon Liquidity Services Unit Thriving
By Steve Garmhausen
January 20, 2009

 

A Matter of Interpretation
By Vipal Monga
January 9, 2009



 

For Many Hedge Funds, No Escape
By Gregory Zuckerman and Jenny Strasburg
January 2, 2009



 

Hedge fund managers try to ease investor fears amidst one-two punch of Madoff fraud and the rise of redemption gates
By Kirsten Bischoff
December 23, 2008



 

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



 

Last Piece of Popular Arm Finds Buyer
By Harry Terris
September 2, 2008



 

Fair Value Revolution
By David M. Katz
September 1, 2008



 

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

 


 

Cuomo Snubs Treasurers in Auction-Rate Debt Rescue
By Martin Z. Braun
August 21, 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
 

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