The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2024

Burford Capital CEO Chris Bogart walks Motley Fool analyst Rich Griefner through the world of legal financing, his company's competitive advantages, and a high-stakes case with Argentina. We don't talk about legal financing too much on the show because there's only one publicly traded company that does it. Jason, thanks for joining me.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

billion were up $808 million or 4% year on year, driven by compensation including revenue-related compensation and growth in employees, partially offset by lower legal expense. And that applies to -- and that competitive environment isn't limited to competing against banks or traditional financial institutions. Expenses of $22.6

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

Any kind, collateral, non-collateral. They don’t have collateral. Now does the FDIC even know how much risk they’re bearing 0 when all the assets are so encumbered that they’re all pledged as collateral? How do they — how does the corporation, as a legal person, interact with the rule of law in general?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

Some of the areas we exited included Retail Primary Casualty, Risk-managed Architects and Engineers, and Intellectual Property Collateral Protection lines. And book value is a pretty darn good proxy for describing economic progress of insurance operation, a bank, a financial institution like that.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tell us a little bit about what you do on Twitter and how was it getting that through legal and compliance? RIEDER: Well, first of all, anything I tweet goes through legal and compliance before it gets out there, first part. RITHOLTZ: It doesn’t look like it’s been massaged to death by legal. RIEDER: It is real time.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

And so, as advisors look to leave these big enterprises and go independent, one of the biggest things we need to train them on is the distinction between compliance, legal, and risk. RITHOLTZ: Compliance, legal, and risk. So, it’s not a legally binding document, but it’s a goodwill problem, right? HAMBURGER: Exactly.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So you, you know, we have supervision, we oversee some of the largest financial institutions in the world from a supervisory perspective. We’ve reduced legal immigration for, for jobs dramatically. I mean, so essentially we didn’t have much legal immigration at all during the covid period, right?

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