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Autonomy finance chief banned from accountancy – despite Mike Lynch’s fraud acquittal
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Unlike Mr Lynch, Mr Hussain was found guilty in 2018 over allegations that he had defrauded HP by inflating Autonomy’s value with illegal accounting practices.
He unsuccessfully appealed and started a five-year prison sentence in 2020, before being released early and returned to the UK this year.
Mr Lynch and Mr Hussain have both been found liable for fraud in a UK civil trial, and face paying HP damages of up to $4bn (£3.1bn). The High Court is expected to rule in the coming months.
The FRC said Mr Hussain admitted to misconduct as a result of his US conviction. He has paid costs of £450,000. The case was decided in January.
The FRC said: “The executive counsel considers that the misconduct of Mr Hussain is so damaging to the wider public and market confidence in the standards of conduct of members and in the accountancy profession, and the quality of corporate reporting in the United Kingdom, that exclusion from his profession is the appropriate outcome in order to protect the public or otherwise safeguard the public interest.”
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Finance
Taxes and Finance: Understanding tax terms – wash sales
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Surprise! Your stock loss is not deductible.
You may be considering booking stock losses due to recent market drops. Selling losers can be a great strategy when these losses can offset other gains and up to $3,000 of your ordinary income. However, there is a little-known rule called the wash sale rule that could surprise the unwary taxpayer.
Wash sales explained
If the wash sale rule applies to your transaction, you cannot immediately report a loss you take when selling a security. Per the IRS:
A wash sale occurs when you sell or trade stock or securities at a loss and within 30 days before or after the sale you:
- Buy substantially identical stock or securities,
- Acquire substantially identical stock or securities in a fully taxable trade,
- Acquire a contract or option to buy substantially identical stock or securities, or
- Acquire substantially identical stock for your individual retirement account (IRA) or Roth IRA.
Why the rule?
Many investors were selling stock they liked simply to book the loss for tax reasons. They then turned around and immediately re-purchased shares of the same company or mutual fund. If done repeatedly, shareholders could constantly be booking short-term losses on a desired company while still owning the shares in a chosen company’s stock indefinitely. Clever shareholders would even purchase the replacement shares prior to selling other shares in the same company to book the loss.
Some ideas
How does one take action to ensure the wash sales rule works to your advantage?
Check the dates. If you decide to sell a stock to book a loss this year, make sure you haven’t inadvertently acquired the same company’s shares 30 days prior to or after the sale date.
Dividend reinvestment. If you automatically re-invest dividends, you will want to make sure this doesn’t inadvertently trigger the wash sales rule.
It’s only for losses. Remember, the wash sales rule only applies to investments sold at a loss. If you are selling stock to capture gains, the rule does not apply.
Consider similar transactions. The wash sales rule applies to buying and selling ownership in the same company or mutual fund. With the exception of some common versus preferred stock of the same company, buying and selling similar – but not identical – shares does not apply to the wash sales rule.
If your loss is ever disallowed because of the wash sales rule, you can add the disallowed loss on to the cost of the new security. When the security is eventually sold in the future, the previously-forfeited loss will be part of the calculation of future gain or loss. This also includes the original stock’s holding period to help define the transaction as a short-term or long-term sale.
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Goodwin Sponsor Finance Atty Joins Davis Polk In NY – Law360 Pulse
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Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP picked up a Goodwin Procter LLP partner of four years with experience representing a wide range of private equity-related clients in leveraged finance transactions in New…
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Most shorted S&P 500 financial stocks at June's end (NYSEARCA:XLF)
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Average short interest across S&P 500 financial stocks was flat at 1.48% of shares float as of the end of June, compared to the prior month.
The S&P 500’s financial sector (NYSEARCA:XLF) was up 12.7%, as compared to the broader S&P 500 index’s rise of 17.7% since the start of the year.
The largest contributor to the index, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) had a short interest of 0.77% of the total float, while the next biggest contributor, J.P. Morgan’s (JPM) short interest, stood at 0.81%.
JPM’s Q2 earnings trailed the Wall Street consensus, as the company bolstered the amount of money it sets aside for potential credit losses.
Stocks with the largest and least short positions:
Ranked by short interest as a percentage of shares float
Franklin Resources (BEN) continued to reign at the top as the most shorted stock at 6.48%, with 18.4M shares sold short.
FactSet Research System (FDS) was the second-most-shorted financial stock at 5.42%, followed by Regions Financial (RF) at 4.33%.
Mastercard (MA) also held onto its position of being the least shorted stock at 0.53%, with 4.4M shares sold short, and preceded by S&P Global (SPGI) at 0.72%.
Industrial Analysis:
Average short interest as a percentage of floating shares
Consumer Finance held on to its top spot for being the most shorted industry within the financial sector, with 2.32% short interest as of June end, up from 2.25% as of the end of May.
Financial Services is the second most shorted industry within the financial sector, with 1.78% short interest as of end-June, down from 1.99% in May.
Capital Market, came in at third, with short interest at 1.73% at June end, marginally down from 1.77% as of May’s end.
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