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Vijay Mallya Scam Demystified | Vijay Mallya Case Study

Trade Brains

Vijay Mallya had roped in Yana Gupta ( featured in the video) for this purpose) After its launch in 2005, Kingfisher Airlines soon became synonymous with Five Star Air Travel. He planned on expanding the airline globally. This was almost a two-fold increase in comparison to the 2005 – 2010 average of $72.68. 934 crores.

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Title Protection For (CFP) Financial Planners And The FPA’s Two About-Faces

Nerd's Eye View

At the same time, questions abound as to how the FPA realistically plans to pursue Title Protection, and its noticeable abstention from mentioning the CFP marks anywhere in its discussion of its new advocacy agency, despite the fact that the FPA is the membership association for CFP professionals.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. And so my plan was actually to quit and not do anything and figure out what my next step was. You were saying that you had a code of ethics, but then your CEO was sexually harassing people.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

And I think that’s maybe part of my legacy if there is one here is to — I was — in 2005’-‘07, I was like, oh, my god, I was like kicking the tires on ETFs, and I’m like, “These things are going to take over.” Did we put a lot of resources into them? Not really. They were still small back then. They’re too good. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

Those types of excess savings were sort of the culprit for the conundrum in 2005 or whatever it was. So, pensions, endowments, defined benefit plans, you point out that they’re particularly sensitive to low-expected returns. Don’t sacrifice your ethics, that integrity matters. Tell us what makes them so susceptible.

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2016 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Ruane passed away in 2005.