Saturday, March 30, 2013

Level 3 Assets

Another example in which a large bank hide stuff under "level 3 assets" These values are "marked-to-belief" rather than marked-to-market. Their public income statements look all nice and dandy but these figures were not included inside.

2 comments:

  1. What is the problem with this way of labeling? It falls under GAAP regulation to the best of my understanding. (I don't know that much on GAAP by the way)

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  2. The SEC allows the banks to hide their losses in Level 3 Assets. Those are 'assets' which have lost value of cannot be priced in the market.

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