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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Matt Smith, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/housing/story/mortgage-bailout-proposal-san-francisco/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and a longtime business partner are among investors in a company drawing criticism for working with local government officials to take over and discount underwater mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69874\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>The plan gained impetus last month, when officials in San Bernardino County formed a joint powers authority to consider a proposal from San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://mortgageresolutionpartners.com/\">Mortgage Resolution Partners\u003c/a> for local governments to use their powers of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company would raise capital to buy the mortgages from lenders at their depressed market price, perhaps less than half their original value. It would then offer the existing homeowners a new mortgage at a value in between the two, preventing foreclosure and pocketing a profit in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy, which Berkeley real estate investor Bill Falik told The Bay Citizen he helped develop, is expected to generate profits of as much as 20 percent, according to an October pitch to potential funders. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and Falik are among 12 founding investors in Mortgage Resolution Partners, according to company spokesman Peter Ragone. Though San Bernardino is the furthest along, the company hopes to partner with local governments across the country to use eminent domain as a tool in fighting blight, Ragone added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bond investors, the real estate industry and the editorial pages of national newspapers have denounced the plan as a politically wired money grab, warning that lenders will shun areas where they face the threat of government seizure of their home loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New buyers would be unable to get new loans in those communities, they allege. 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Capitalism will carry on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown did not respond to telephone and email messages requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time Falik, with Brown as an investment partner, has pursued a strategy that hinged on controversial real estate decisions by municipal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the boom years of California’s real estate market, then-Assembly Speaker Brown was a partner in a series of Falik-run real estate partnerships that helped turn thousands of acres of Central Valley farmland into new housing developments. In that case, the key was persuading local officials to rezone Sacramento River floodplain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had some successful investments, and we had some successes involving permits in Sacramento,” Falik said, adding that Brown was only one of 140 partners in those investments. “But I’m a very careful lawyer: I never met with Willie concerning one of my projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, owners of the homes built on that land, like thousands of other California homeowners, find their houses worth less than what they owe. Falik said that the new company, Mortgage Resolution Partners, would help local governments overcome problems preventing lenders from assisting such underwater borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many U.S. loans have been resold to investors as packages of mortgage-backed securities. These arrangements often prohibit loan discounting. In theory, an eminent domain seizure could override those contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to my business partners in Sacramento, and they say nothing is selling because there’s all this foreclosure overhang,” Falik said. “If you can keep people in their homes and give them a mortgage in some way where they can continue to pay, it would make a huge difference in terms of blight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 28, a group of 18 financial services lobbying organizations, including the American Bankers Association and the Inland Valley Association of Realtors, sent a joint letter to five San Bernardino County-area officials denouncing Mortgage Resolution Partners’ eminent domain plan. The proposal raises important “constitutional issues,” the letter said, suggesting the possibility of lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the major industry players on the critical letter’s masthead, opponents have had difficulties rallying politicians to their side, said Steve Manos, president of the Inland Valley Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From our vantage point, bringing attention to this was difficult. There seemed to be a reluctance for some people to take up the fight, though this seemed to be an easy one,” Manos said. “You have serious influence coming from heavy hitters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have warned that political influence might play a role in Mortgage Resolution Partners’ strategy as well. 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House prices might drop further, increasing, rather than reducing, blight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics also complain that their warnings are being ignored in Sacramento and Washington because the Mortgage Resolution Partners deal is backed by politically powerful individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ragone characterized the criticism as the self-serving complaints of financiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the typical canard that Wall Street and its lobbyists used whenever they don’t support an innovative public policy,” he said in an email. “Loans will still be made and investors will still make returns. Capitalism will carry on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown did not respond to telephone and email messages requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time Falik, with Brown as an investment partner, has pursued a strategy that hinged on controversial real estate decisions by municipal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the boom years of California’s real estate market, then-Assembly Speaker Brown was a partner in a series of Falik-run real estate partnerships that helped turn thousands of acres of Central Valley farmland into new housing developments. In that case, the key was persuading local officials to rezone Sacramento River floodplain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had some successful investments, and we had some successes involving permits in Sacramento,” Falik said, adding that Brown was only one of 140 partners in those investments. “But I’m a very careful lawyer: I never met with Willie concerning one of my projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, owners of the homes built on that land, like thousands of other California homeowners, find their houses worth less than what they owe. Falik said that the new company, Mortgage Resolution Partners, would help local governments overcome problems preventing lenders from assisting such underwater borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many U.S. loans have been resold to investors as packages of mortgage-backed securities. These arrangements often prohibit loan discounting. In theory, an eminent domain seizure could override those contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to my business partners in Sacramento, and they say nothing is selling because there’s all this foreclosure overhang,” Falik said. “If you can keep people in their homes and give them a mortgage in some way where they can continue to pay, it would make a huge difference in terms of blight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 28, a group of 18 financial services lobbying organizations, including the American Bankers Association and the Inland Valley Association of Realtors, sent a joint letter to five San Bernardino County-area officials denouncing Mortgage Resolution Partners’ eminent domain plan. The proposal raises important “constitutional issues,” the letter said, suggesting the possibility of lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the major industry players on the critical letter’s masthead, opponents have had difficulties rallying politicians to their side, said Steve Manos, president of the Inland Valley Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From our vantage point, bringing attention to this was difficult. There seemed to be a reluctance for some people to take up the fight, though this seemed to be an easy one,” Manos said. “You have serious influence coming from heavy hitters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have warned that political influence might play a role in Mortgage Resolution Partners’ strategy as well. In January, Reuters reported that Mortgage Resolution Partners had sent a letter to potential investors saying the company would use “legal and political leverage” to purchase distressed mortgage, and that its founding executive chairman, Phil Angelides, “will be front-line center stage nationally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, U.S. Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., sent a letter to Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, expressing concern about “influence peddling” by prominent California politicians linked to Mortgage Resolution Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company spokesman Ragone, who served as communications director for former Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66126\" title=\"Oakland-Athletics-logoSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\">\u003c/a>Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/09/4617561/mayor-johnson-looks-at-bringing.html#\" target=\"_blank\">held a press conference Monday\u003c/a> to tout his city's potential as a home for the A's or another Major League Baseball team. Johnson was the major force behind a plan to build a new arena for the Sacramento Kings, \u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7810708/deal-new-sacramento-kings-arena-falls-through\" target=\"_blank\">a deal that collapsed in April\u003c/a> when the team's owners, the Maloof family, balked at the terms. On Monday, Johnson said he had instructed the task force that was working on an NBA arena project to explore the possibility of a downtown baseball stadium instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had $250 million of public investment that we were willing to put toward a $400 million project,\" Johnson said at the press conference, speaking of the basketball arena. \"As I go around the country and talk to other owners, they're just in disbelief with what our community was able to put forward as an investment. We know that we could support not just one, but two teams, given the opportunity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All well and good. But later in the day, A's managing partner Lew Wolff and other team officials said \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/10/4619869/oakland-as-say-theyre-not-interested.html\" target=\"_blank\">they're not interested\u003c/a>, even as a backup plan. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69238\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 276px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/WallStreetSignGeneric20120305.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-69238\" title=\"WallStreetSignGeneric20120305\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/WallStreetSignGeneric20120305-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"184\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the 40-day quiet period ended for research analysts from companies involved in the Facebook IPO, meaning they were free to issue ratings and price targets on the stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303561504577492121502368062.html\">Wall Street Journal:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By midmorning, analysts at eight banks, including the three lead underwriters Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. had rated the stock a 'buy.' Another nine dubbed the shares a 'hold,\"' and one, BMO Capital Markets bestowed the equivalent of a rare 'sell' rating on the stock. Price targets for analysts who provided them Wednesday ranged from $25 to $45, with the average $37.71.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll recall that Facebook's highly anticipated IPO was a bit of a fiasco, with shares finishing on the first day of trading just about a half-percent over the opening price -- and only with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-trading-20120518,0,6622700.story\">help of large buy orders from the underwriter\u003c/a>, to boot. The Big Facebook Bang was also \u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/facebooks-debut-marred-by-trading-glitches/?hp\">marred by trading glitches\u003c/a> on the Nasdaq exchange, as well as later reports that Facebook, soon before the IPO, \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-facebook-analysts-idUSBRE84M08W20120523\">advised analysts for Morgan Stanley and other underwriters\u003c/a> to reduce their revenue estimates for the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its debut, \u003ca href=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=fb&ql=1\">Facebook shares\u003c/a> have fared even worse, finishing at $31.09 today, substantially below its $38 IPO price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, we turned to Sam Hamadeh, CEO of IPO research firm PrivCo, who was a \u003ca href=\"http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-17/tech/30055188_1_facebook-shares-facebook-management-facebook-fatigue\">Facebook bear before it was fashionable\u003c/a>. Hamadeh seemed fairly prescient when he provided us with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/16/analysis-facebook-ipo-worth-25-per-share/\">seven reasons to sit out the Facebook IPO\u003c/a> two days before it went public. In fact, one of the top reasons Hamadeh gave for his bearish views on the company (he pegs the real value of Facebook at $25 per share) is that it doesn't have a good way to monetize mobile users. And that, in fact, was the very reason Facebook cited when it told its underwriters to reduce their estimates, according to sources in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-facebook-analysts-idUSBRE84M08W20120523\">Reuters report\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamadeh called the new analyst ratings released this week \"fairly tepid,\" but said they were still too high. In our conversation, he also said that when it comes to analyst ratings, things haven't changed much on Wall Street since the dot-com scandals of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when a lack of separation between the research and business arms of the big firms incentivized analysts, ostensibly independent evaluators of securities, to vastly inflate their assessments of what stocks were worth. (Check out the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/wallstreet.html\">difference between public and private analyst opinions at Merrill Lynch during that era here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These conflicts of interests were supposedly addressed in 2003 by the so-called \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Settlement\">Global Settlement\u003c/a>, which mandated a separation between the banking and research departments at the big Wall Street firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reading this, you should keep in mind that Hamadeh's independent research firm is a competitor of the big banks that he is criticizing here. This is an edited transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what do you think of the ratings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PRIVCO'S SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: It's important for readers to understand that although underwriter research analysts are supposed to be independent, it's expected that virtually all of them of course issue positive recommendations for the company. It's fairly unusual for analyst reports from the underwriter firms involved in the IPO to issue any negative ratings. It would get a lot of publicity but would certainly cost the person their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: But there was an analyst from one of the underwriting firms who seemed to be quite negative, putting the value of Facebook shares at $25 per share, like you...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: That was a brave move. I think that analyst is doing so at his peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: You mean by virtue of this person issuing a low rating his job is in danger?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: I worked at Goldman Sachs on the investment banking side in the 1990s, before the legal settlement making the research arms that issue ratings more separate from the banking side. But as a practical matter, these guys work in the same building, eat in the same cafeteria -- the analyst is chatting with investors during the road show… It certainly is a job-risking statement to come out with a price target below the IPO price or any sort of underperform rating like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So that was a big issue in the 1990s, with the underwriters putting pressure on their analysts to come up with pumped up ratings. Correct?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong> Absolutely. In the 1990s, technically there was no legal separation between banking and research. You had a lot of emails surface during litigation following the market crash in 2000 and 2001 that showed the bankers telling the analysts we could land this IPO, so we're promising them if we get the IPO, our analysts will issue a buy recommendation for the stock, will talk it up during the road show to investors, and will set a very high price target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference today is instead of those emails going back and forth, they do it verbally. That's the only difference. As someone who has been on Wall Street and is no longer on Wall Street but have many connections there, we know how the business works, and the pressure now is done verbally as opposed to email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, instead of research analysts' pay being tied to a bonus structure taking into account things like the number of IPOs the firm brings in, they're rewarded with restricted stock based on the company's overall performance or the team's performance, as well as intangibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is those intangibles include are you being a team player, are you beating up our IPOs as soon as the 40-day quiet period expires? Any analyst that does this repeatedly, from our experience, they shouldn't expect a job at that firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've seen the sausage get made. We talk to a lot of investment bankers and people on deal teams off the record, because we have to verify information. As part of those conversations we get other insights as to how the deal is being quote marketed. Which is Wall Street parlance. They literally call it marketing a deal as opposed to explaining or analysis. That's what it is: advertising. Instead of selling soap, you're selling the stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as part of the marketing process we have off the record chats about how the star Internet or tech analyst is going to talk to big institutional investors verbally and pump up the stocks' forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for example, what Facebook's going to do in 2015 – that's a judgment call. The analyst has leeway whether they want to predict Facebook is going to do $10 billion in revenue in five years or $30 billion in revenue in five years. With the bank that's the lead underwriter in the deal, you can fully expect the pressure is both explicit and implicit, that the expectation is the analyst is going to be on the high end of those projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was in investment banking in the 1990s, it was very clear we were all part of the same team, we attended pitch meetings together. The goals were to A get the deal, and B have the deal succeed and priced as high as possible; the research analyst's job was to support that effort.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For another opinion, I turned to New York Times financial editor and columnist \u003ca href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/gretchen_morgenson/index.html\">Gretchen Morgenson\u003c/a>, who herself broke a \u003ca href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/gretchen_morgenson/index.html\">story\u003c/a> in 2006 involving the very situation that Hamadeh describes. Here's the lead to that \u003ca href=\"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6D91130F93AA35757C0A9609C8B63&pagewanted=all\">report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>ALMOST four years have passed since securities regulators and Wall Street firms signed the $1.4 billion research settlement intended to remove bias from brokerage firm analysts' work. Has enough time gone by for business as usual to return to the Street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That seems to be what some on Wall Street hope, judging from the story of Matthew N. Murray, a veteran analyst and portfolio manager who was recently fired from his post at Rodman & Renshaw, a small brokerage firm in New York City. Mr. Murray, 38, lost his job in March after downgrading the stock of Halozyme Therapeutics, a small biotechnology company he had followed since September 2005. \u003ca href=\"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6D91130F93AA35757C0A9609C8B63&pagewanted=all\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I read Ms. Morgenson Hamadeh's statements, and here's what she had to say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think you can see probably that the predisposition to be positive about companies, particularly those with investment banking clients, does continue to be an issue. I haven't done the arithmetic lately, but if you wrre to look out over the horizon and see how many sell ratings you saw out there, they would be few and far between. That alone is an indication that we're still in the accentuate-the-positive mode. As long as that goes on, investors should be wary of putting too much credence in these analysts' ratings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the analyst that you quote – his points are well taken.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One thing, though: Financial regulators are now looking into Facebook's alleged selected guidance to analysts that they \u003cem>lower\u003c/em> their forecasts, which they did. Doesn't that contradict Hamadeh's claim that analysts for underwriters always \u003cem>inflate\u003c/em> their estimates? I asked him in a follow-up, and here's what he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yes, Facebook's underwriters did the rare reduction in forecasts in the middle of its IPO roadshow, which is virtually unheard of. And that is now the subject of much securities litigation and SEC and FINRA regulatory scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the fairly unprecedented case of Facebook, IPO underwriter analysts virtually always do two things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1.) Set the forecast for the first quarter as a public company as low as possible, so that the company is all but guaranteed to beat them. No newly public company can be seen missing its first quarter. (In Facebook's case, the underwriter analysts already had fairly lowball estimates for the current, second quarter, but they were directed by Facebook's CFO to lower them even further given how weak the 2nd quarter numbers were coming in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2.) Set the forecasts for future periods as high as possible. And Facebook's underwriter analysts kept financial forecasts for further out periods (2014-2016) as high as they were initially. This is par for the course to justify the IPO's valuation. Typically the firms quietly reduce them long after the IPO.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FYI, I left a message with BMO Capital Markets, one of the Facebook underwriters, whose analyst issued the $25 per share target price for the stock, which, according to Hamadeh, will put his job in peril. They never got back to me.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, we turned to Sam Hamadeh, CEO of IPO research firm PrivCo, who was a \u003ca href=\"http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-17/tech/30055188_1_facebook-shares-facebook-management-facebook-fatigue\">Facebook bear before it was fashionable\u003c/a>. Hamadeh seemed fairly prescient when he provided us with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/16/analysis-facebook-ipo-worth-25-per-share/\">seven reasons to sit out the Facebook IPO\u003c/a> two days before it went public. In fact, one of the top reasons Hamadeh gave for his bearish views on the company (he pegs the real value of Facebook at $25 per share) is that it doesn't have a good way to monetize mobile users. And that, in fact, was the very reason Facebook cited when it told its underwriters to reduce their estimates, according to sources in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-facebook-analysts-idUSBRE84M08W20120523\">Reuters report\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamadeh called the new analyst ratings released this week \"fairly tepid,\" but said they were still too high. In our conversation, he also said that when it comes to analyst ratings, things haven't changed much on Wall Street since the dot-com scandals of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when a lack of separation between the research and business arms of the big firms incentivized analysts, ostensibly independent evaluators of securities, to vastly inflate their assessments of what stocks were worth. (Check out the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/wallstreet.html\">difference between public and private analyst opinions at Merrill Lynch during that era here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These conflicts of interests were supposedly addressed in 2003 by the so-called \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Settlement\">Global Settlement\u003c/a>, which mandated a separation between the banking and research departments at the big Wall Street firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reading this, you should keep in mind that Hamadeh's independent research firm is a competitor of the big banks that he is criticizing here. This is an edited transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what do you think of the ratings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PRIVCO'S SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: It's important for readers to understand that although underwriter research analysts are supposed to be independent, it's expected that virtually all of them of course issue positive recommendations for the company. It's fairly unusual for analyst reports from the underwriter firms involved in the IPO to issue any negative ratings. It would get a lot of publicity but would certainly cost the person their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: But there was an analyst from one of the underwriting firms who seemed to be quite negative, putting the value of Facebook shares at $25 per share, like you...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: That was a brave move. I think that analyst is doing so at his peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: You mean by virtue of this person issuing a low rating his job is in danger?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: I worked at Goldman Sachs on the investment banking side in the 1990s, before the legal settlement making the research arms that issue ratings more separate from the banking side. But as a practical matter, these guys work in the same building, eat in the same cafeteria -- the analyst is chatting with investors during the road show… It certainly is a job-risking statement to come out with a price target below the IPO price or any sort of underperform rating like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So that was a big issue in the 1990s, with the underwriters putting pressure on their analysts to come up with pumped up ratings. Correct?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong> Absolutely. In the 1990s, technically there was no legal separation between banking and research. You had a lot of emails surface during litigation following the market crash in 2000 and 2001 that showed the bankers telling the analysts we could land this IPO, so we're promising them if we get the IPO, our analysts will issue a buy recommendation for the stock, will talk it up during the road show to investors, and will set a very high price target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference today is instead of those emails going back and forth, they do it verbally. That's the only difference. As someone who has been on Wall Street and is no longer on Wall Street but have many connections there, we know how the business works, and the pressure now is done verbally as opposed to email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, instead of research analysts' pay being tied to a bonus structure taking into account things like the number of IPOs the firm brings in, they're rewarded with restricted stock based on the company's overall performance or the team's performance, as well as intangibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is those intangibles include are you being a team player, are you beating up our IPOs as soon as the 40-day quiet period expires? Any analyst that does this repeatedly, from our experience, they shouldn't expect a job at that firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've seen the sausage get made. We talk to a lot of investment bankers and people on deal teams off the record, because we have to verify information. As part of those conversations we get other insights as to how the deal is being quote marketed. Which is Wall Street parlance. They literally call it marketing a deal as opposed to explaining or analysis. That's what it is: advertising. Instead of selling soap, you're selling the stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as part of the marketing process we have off the record chats about how the star Internet or tech analyst is going to talk to big institutional investors verbally and pump up the stocks' forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for example, what Facebook's going to do in 2015 – that's a judgment call. The analyst has leeway whether they want to predict Facebook is going to do $10 billion in revenue in five years or $30 billion in revenue in five years. With the bank that's the lead underwriter in the deal, you can fully expect the pressure is both explicit and implicit, that the expectation is the analyst is going to be on the high end of those projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was in investment banking in the 1990s, it was very clear we were all part of the same team, we attended pitch meetings together. The goals were to A get the deal, and B have the deal succeed and priced as high as possible; the research analyst's job was to support that effort.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For another opinion, I turned to New York Times financial editor and columnist \u003ca href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/gretchen_morgenson/index.html\">Gretchen Morgenson\u003c/a>, who herself broke a \u003ca href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/gretchen_morgenson/index.html\">story\u003c/a> in 2006 involving the very situation that Hamadeh describes. Here's the lead to that \u003ca href=\"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6D91130F93AA35757C0A9609C8B63&pagewanted=all\">report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>ALMOST four years have passed since securities regulators and Wall Street firms signed the $1.4 billion research settlement intended to remove bias from brokerage firm analysts' work. Has enough time gone by for business as usual to return to the Street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That seems to be what some on Wall Street hope, judging from the story of Matthew N. Murray, a veteran analyst and portfolio manager who was recently fired from his post at Rodman & Renshaw, a small brokerage firm in New York City. Mr. Murray, 38, lost his job in March after downgrading the stock of Halozyme Therapeutics, a small biotechnology company he had followed since September 2005. \u003ca href=\"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6D91130F93AA35757C0A9609C8B63&pagewanted=all\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I read Ms. Morgenson Hamadeh's statements, and here's what she had to say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think you can see probably that the predisposition to be positive about companies, particularly those with investment banking clients, does continue to be an issue. I haven't done the arithmetic lately, but if you wrre to look out over the horizon and see how many sell ratings you saw out there, they would be few and far between. That alone is an indication that we're still in the accentuate-the-positive mode. 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