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ng Oversight Board. PPP: Preliminary Performance Profiles. Punk Ziegel: Punk Ziegel & Co. Ratings Agencies: U.S. commercial credit rating agencies Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch. xii EFTA00316726 Case 1:08-cv-02793-RWS Document 102 Filed 02127,109 Page 14 of 347 RMBS: Residential Mortgage Backed Secu

r for Audit Quality. Cayne: James E. Cayne, a director, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bear Stearns during the Class Period. Cioffi: Ralph Cioffi, the Bear Steams trader who started and managed the High Grade Fund, a Managing Director of BSAM and a Director of BSC. CDOs: Collate

s and certifications were materially false and misleading when made. 3. August 3, 2007 Press Release and Conference Call 696. On August 3, 2007, Standard & Poor's cut Bear Steams' credit rating outlook to negative. In an effort to limit damage to its share price, Bear Steams issued a press release which conta

y difficulties. I would say it's been, obviously there's a lot of market volatility but we've had no difficulties there." Barely two weeks earlier, Cioffi, a Senior Managing Director of BSAM and a member of Bear Stearns' Board of Directors, had written of the Funds' February results that "I can't belie

y the underlying obligations. The "top" or "senior" tranches, which typically are rated AAA to AA- by independent rating agencies such as Moody's or Standard & Poor's, receive highest priority to the stream of cash, and are structured to provide returns of principal and interest even when the underlying collatera

creation of the EL Fund to the indictment of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the portfolio managers of the HG Funds, it must be noted that Messrs. Cioffi and Tannin were acquitted of all charges on November 10, 2009.10 9 Every investor in the HG Fund was informed about the launch of the EL Fund, provi