Proprietary Finance Ventures
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San Francisco, CA 94105
U.S.A.
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Generally speaking, bonds are senior securities. Some issues of bonds considered particularly attractive are the high yield bonds commonly referred to as "Rising Stars". High Yield bonds are securities of the middle rating by Moody's, Fitch and Standard & Poor of Ba1/BB+/BBB or lower. "Junk bonds" historically have paid 4-6% above Treasuries and are used to finance capital intensive industries such as telecom, oil and gas.
If you don't already have an underwriter, you may wish to consider Thomson Financial's league tables to help you learn about the activities of leading investment banks.
Companies public filings at Edgar
The lowest quality debt (distressed) securities, rated CCC are bonds yielding 1000 basis points over equivalent government bonds. If you are in a situation where your debt is classified as distressed or default, contact us for capital raising helpful innovative solutions.


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June 7-8, 2010
NACD Directorship Forum 2010
Corporate Governance Agenda 2010...

May 4-6, 2010
2010 European Business Aviation Convention & Exibition
EBACE2010...

April 26-27, 2010
30th Annual New York Airfinance Conference
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April 15, 2010
Reuters Buyouts West Conference 2010
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April 11-13, 2010
Platts' 25th Annual Power Markets Conference
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March 18-19, 2010
12th Annual European Syndicated Loans Conference
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March 1-3, 2010
JP Morgan Global High Yield and Leveraged Finance Conference
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February 8, 2010
Deal Drivers EMEA 2009 -A round up of M&A activity across EMEA for FY 2009, broken down into eight industry sectors -MergeMarket in association with BBVA and Merrill DataSite
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February 1st, 2010
The debt effect -Grant Thornton and the Association for Corporate Growth explore the challenges ahead in lending behavior this year
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January 2010
Turner, Mason & Co World Crude Oil Outlook 2010-2020
Energy Intel Research...

January 27-31, 2010
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos-Klosters
Global Risk Report 2010...

January 26-27, 2010
Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Outlook 2010
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January 24-26, 2010
Corporate Directors Forum 5th Conference
Corporate Directors Forum at the University of San Diego

January 21, 2010
Microsoft's 7th Annual Global Energy Forum
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January 12, 2010
U.K's HM Treasury calls for more choices in business finance
Discussion paper on improving non-bank lending

January 10, 2010
Council of Institutional Investors
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OGN -Petroleum industry news for Asia and the ME
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December 30, 2009
EMEA syndicated lending declined 26 pct in 2009
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Financial Stability Institute (BIS) Program for Financial Sector Supervisors
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December 21, 2009
Amendments to Rule 163(c) under the Securities Act of 1933 that would allow a well-known seasoned issuer to authorize an underwriter or dealer to act as its agent or representative in communicating about offerings of the issuer’s securities prior to the filing of a registration statement
Proposed amendments to S.E.C.'s Rule 163(c)

December 20, 2009
From the Current Account Economy Blog at the National UAE
Morgan Stanley Research breaks down Dubai's debt, by M. Jaber and P. Batori

December 11, 2009
Station Casinos Bankruptcy Case No. 09-52477 (GWZ)
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December 10, 2009
BD Capital Markets CRM
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Wall Street Letter
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Law.com News
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Committee on Capital Markets Regulation
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The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
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U.S. Companies charter and bylaws poison pill research
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Risk & Governance Blog
RiskMetrics Blog...

Securities Docket litigation and enforcement report
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Conference Board Governance Center Blog
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Proxy Research, Voting, and Risk Alerts
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Corporate Compliance Insights
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Deloitte's Center for Corporate Governance
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International Finance Corporation-Global Corporate Governance Forum
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A global comparison of the impact of the listing decision on the cost of capital
2007 Study by Prof. Dr. Christoph Kaserer et al. at Deutsch Boerse...

Euromoney PLC
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American Bankruptcy Institute
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September 22, 2009
5th Global Forum on Investing in Distressed Debt
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July 28, 2009
Rule 204 of the SEC requires brokers-dealers to purchase or borrow securities to deliver on a short sale. SEC is also considering proposals on a short sale price test and circuit breaker restrictions
Amendments to regulation SHO

July 16, 2009
BATS Europe moves ahead with Europe's first maker-taker priced dark pool
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July 2, 2009
Chrysler's hastily done bankruptcy may have prejudiced secured creditors
Assesing the Chrysler Bankruptcy, by Mark J. Roe and David A. Skeel Jr.

June 24, 2009
Gulf Online's Annual Review of Islamic Banking & Finance
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May 7, 2009
Stress tests of 19 U.S. largest Bank Holding Cos. released
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April 6, 2009
CAIA's All About alpha: research, analysis blog, more
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March 17, 2009
We subscribe to the views expressed in the Icahn Report asking for stronger shareholders rights and for a cleaunup of the inept and corrupt management practices in American business. Moreover, there have been many recent examples of blatant lawlessness and poor work done on behalf of clients at investment banks such as Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and others
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