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...SWIFT is a specialized investment fund that holds a broadly diversified portfolio of wind-farm assets. These assets generate revenues that are tightly linked to the price of electricity: When electricity prices are high, SWIFTs enjoy higher revenues. SWIFTs have become expert at using customized derivatives to offset the risks associated with these revenue fluctuations, yielding net earnings that, until recently, had appeared to be virtually risk-free. They then issue short-term debt backed by these stable earnings. A typical SWIFT finances 90 percent of its assets using overnight notes that yield only slightly more than Treasury bills...

Author: By Jeremy C. Stein | Title: The Next Financial Crisis | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis many blamed on reckless lending and poor risk management, critics questioned the value of the MBA, the two-year education meant to churn out future titans of industry...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Brand Name MBA | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Critics speaking out against the value of the MBA after the financial crisis struck emphasize the need to integrate more comprehensive ethics and risk management training into business school curricula for a more relevant education...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Brand Name MBA | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...allowable but presenting the registrar’s office with a Hallmark card is an offense worthy of months of investigation, there is no real way to know, as a student, where lines are drawn.  Thus we are faced with two options: accept the risk of suspension for every “greeting card” or forego Grand Elections entirely...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: Greetings from the Ad Board | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...religious leaders continue to hide the diamond, the secularization of the Druze community puts at risk the loss of a religious identity that embraces all religions, emphasizes the premise of reason and rationality enshrined in Greek mythology, and represents a progressive sect in the Middle East...

Author: By Rima Merhi | Title: The Druze Challenge of Survival | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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