McCombs Alumni Network News

McCombs MBA alumni are invited to attend the TEXAS MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth’s first annual Alumni Seminar, featuring faculty John Doggett, Mike Brandl, Bob May, Pam Haunschild and Sandy Leeds.  These and other notable professors will discuss their thoughts on how the economy landed in this position and where we are going next, as well as [...]

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From McCombs Today
Sanford Leeds, senior finance lecturer at McCombs School of Business, reviews a myriad of entities who are to blame for the subprime crisis, among them - homebuyers, mortgage brokers, bankers, the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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From McCombs TODAY

This week, McCombs Senior Finance Lecturer Sandy Leeds blogged about Friday’s job report, which he says showed significant improvement, but still reveals a terrible job market. He also predicts who will be “the next GM” and offers a discussion of the most recent insult to Citi–being removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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From McCombs TODAY
This week McCombs Senior Finance Lecturer Sandy Leeds blogged about “The Disaster Called Fannie Mae.” He gives some background on Fannie Mae’s origins, explains changes since it was placed in conservatorship and outlines what he thinks are some causes for concern about the company.
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From McCombs Today
This week, McCombs Senior Finance Lecturer Sandy Leeds blogged about problems with Social Security and Medicare, along with two posts about ratings agencies. One summarizes an academic article about the problems involved with rating structured finance products. The other article offers Leeds’ opinion concerning why the issuer shouldn’t pay the ratings agencies and [...]

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From McCombs TODAY
McCombs Senior Finance Lecturer Sandy Leeds recently launched the blog Leeds on Finance, where he’ll post weekly analysis of key market issues and commentary on top financial news.
This week he blogged about the Federal Reserve’s “stress test” results, the latest U.S. employment numbers and the Chrysler bankruptcy plan.
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From McCombs TODAY
Rose Nunez completed her MBA degree requirements in December to accept a mega-promotion at IBM in Slovakia, managing its Power Systems hardware and services brand across three global regions. But next week, she will return to Austin to walk the commencement stage with her MBA classmates—a team she says has been integral in [...]

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From McCombs Today
In this issue of Market Update, senior finance lecturer Sandy Leeds switches gears and tackles accounting, offering his thoughts on the recent changes in fair value accounting (also known as “mark-to-market” accounting).
Typically, when I research and write these Market Updates, I know my opinion and I struggle to maintain some fairness to [...]

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From the 4th Annual Alumni Business Conference

 Breaking his typical pattern of what he admitted could be classified as an “anal-retentive” organizational system, Sandy Leeds, McCombs finance department senior lecturer, covered a wide array of current financial and economic topics at the Alumni Business Conference. Here are some of his thoughts: 
 

Subprime

Homeownership rate increases: These skyrocketed from [...]

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From McCombs Today, By Sandy Leeds, senior finance lecturer at McCombs
1. Fiat has never been successful in the US.  Regardless of the fact that management has turned Fiat around in Europe, you really need to be skeptical about their potential for success here.
2. The Administration is excited about the technology of Fiat being shared with [...]

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