Wall Street's sensitivity to charges that it operates as an underwriting oligopoly dates back at least to the Glass-Steagall act of 1933 when commercial banks were forced to sell or close their underwriting business, in effect reinforcing the franchises of "bulge-bracket" securities firms.
The column also said that the analyst had raised the target price on Lucent, to $2 from $1.75, but did not note that the new target was below the then-current trading price of $2.17 and the $2.24 price at the date of underwriting.
To underwrite their weapons purchases to date, the fighters and commanders present said, they raised money themselves.
On the claims and underwriting side, there is little entrepreneurial activity to date that we know of.
The art historian Werner Schade who underwrote the attribution, tentatively dates it to 1530.
Still, the creation and underwriting of policies is something tech giants have avoided to date.
To date, hip and knee producers have contributed $500,000 to underwrite an effort by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a professional group, to create a national artificial hip and knee registry.
The pair of investment banks presented IPO plans to Uber this fall, in hopes of landing the top underwriting spot in what will be one of the largest stock market debuts to date.
Groups with complementary expertise (eg insurers, actuaries, genetic counsellors, clinicians, and genomics researchers) should develop clear, up-to-date, reliable information material and frequently asked questions about genomics and underwriting to be communicated by all stakeholders involved (eg public, popular media, ethics committees, clinicians, researchers, and genetic counsellors).
It is easy to suspect that this series has been underwritten by a security firm insistent that no woman in America ever go on a date without having first commissioned a background check: Don't jump into bed without it.
