This podcast features a discussion of residential home mortgage modification options now facing Congress. Joining ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano are Christopher Mayer, Senior Vice Dean and Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate at the Columbia University Business School, and Edward Morrison, Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School. Mayer and Morrison have developed a new proposal for loan modification that compensates servicers who modify mortgages and removes legal constraints that inhibit modification.
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ABI Executive Director Samuel J. Gerdano talks with Nell Hennessy, President & CEO of Fiduciary Counselors Inc. From 1993 to 1998, Hennessey served as Deputy Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) and represented the PBGC in negotiations with major corporate pension plan sponsors and unions in a wide range of industries, including auto, steel, chemical, textile and airlines. She discusses the challenges facing the PBGC amid the economic downturn and potential solutions for the agency as it faces billions of dollars in funding deficits for U.S. pensions.
ABI Executive Director Samuel J. Gerdano talks with Prof. Lois R. Lupica, the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law. Lupica, who served as the Robert M. Zinman ABI Resident Scholar for the Spring 2007 semester, discusses “A Study of Consumers’ Post-Discharge Finances: Struggles, Stasis, or Fresh-Start?” an article she co-wrote with Prof. Jay L. Zagorsky of Ohio State University. The study was featured in the Spring 2008 edition of the ABI Law Review.
The latest ABI Podcast features a conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, recorded at the ABI Southwest Bankruptcy Conference on Sept. 5. Justice Stephens is the longest-serving current member of the Court, appointed by President Ford in 1975.
Continuing the series of conversations with presidents of various prominent organizations in the insolvency community, ABI Deputy Executive Director Felicia Turner speaks with Martha G. Bronitsky, the president of the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees (NACTT). Bronitsky discusses the history of the NACTT, the NACTT Academy and some of the changes to chapter 13 trustees’ practice caused by BAPCPA.
ABI Executive Director Samuel J. Gerdano talks with Prof. Ronald T. Wilcox of the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. Author of the recently published book, Whatever Happened to Thrift? Why Americans Don’t Save and What to Do About It, Wilcox shares his views on the growing trend of consumer debt in the United States and why American’s sense of thrift has diminished.
ABI Resident Scholar Jack F. Williams talks with Grant Stein, the current president of the Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors (AIRA) and a partner in Alston & Bird’s Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Workouts Group. Stein discusses the history and growth of the AIRA, as well as the organization’s Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA) and Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV) programs.
ABI Deputy Executive Director Felicia S. Turner talks with Arthur T. Perkins, the current president of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) and co-head of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services’ turnaround consulting and restructuring practice for the West Region. In addition to discussing the history of TMA, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, Perkins discusses the current climate of financial turnarounds for distressed companies during the current credit crunch and the increase in business bankruptcy filings.
The views expressed in this podcast are those of the interviewee, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP.
ABI Executive Director Samuel J. Gerdano talks with Mark Zandi, chief economist and co-founder of Moody’s Economy.com. A witness before Congress and frequently quoted in the media, Zandi shares his views on the current mortgage crisis as well as his views on current legislative proposals looking to remedy the housing downturn, such as the Senate’s housing assistance package and legislation that would allow a bankruptcy judge to modify the primary mortgage of a chapter 13 debtor.
ABI Executive Director Samuel J. Gerdano talks with James Scurlock the director, producer, screenwriter and author of the critically acclaimed documentary and book, Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders. Scurlock, the guest speaker at ABI’s Debt Symposium at the University of Illinois on May 2, discusses his powerful work that takes an in-depth look at the credit industry, some of the industry’s practices and the effect that credit card debt has on consumers. Click here to listen to the podcast.