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  Complaint: SEC v. UBS Warburg LLC
When a UBS Warburg analyst informed the head of the research department that he intended to drop coverage of a particular company, he was asked whether there was any "banking relationship" and was told to "check with" the banker who worked with that company.
During the relevant period, UBS Warburg also paid a "research fee" of $150,000 at the direction of the issuer, to two broker-dealers in conjunction with the underwriting transaction of Netopia, Inc. in which UBS Warburg was the lead-manager.
During the relevant period, UBS Warburg also made several payments totaling approximately $283,000, at the direction of the issuer, for "research" to broker-dealers in conjunction with an underwriting transaction of Espeed, Inc., in which UBS Warburg was the lead manager.
www.sec.gov /litigation/complaints/comp18112.htm   (5373 words)

  
  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - The Region - Paul Warburg's Crusade to Establish a Central Bank in the United ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Warburg thought it a bit presumptuous to attempt to educate a country to which he was so new a resident, so when advised by an associate to put the paper aside, he did so and attended to duties at his firm.
Warburg did, however, succeed in injecting two new ideas into the discussion: first, shifting of emphasis from the currency problem to the reserve problem; and second, advocacy of the principle of rediscounting a new kind of commercial paper.
Warburg realized that he had not been able to persuade the senator that if a central banking organization was to be created, it had to be a modified scheme based on the European models.
www.minneapolisfed.org /pubs/region/89-05/reg895d.cfm   (4240 words)

  
  From symbol to allegory: Aby Warburg's theory of art. - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This interpretation holds that Warburg's thought marks the founding of the iconological "method," which calls for analysis of the meaning of works of art through attention to parallels between motifs in the works in question and other cultural phenomena of the time, including literary and theological documents.
Warburg draws attention to the remarkable similarities between The Birth of Venus and Poliziano's poem Giostra, and between Primavera and Poliziano's Latin bucolic poem Rusticus.
Warburg's dissertation aims to establish the character of a discourse of antiquity in quattrocento Florence, an aim that would seem to confirm the picture of Warburg discussed above, namely, as concerned to reconstruct a particular sociohistorical cultural milieu.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-20824295.html   (1767 words)

  
 Warburg, Aby | Encyclopedia of Religion
Aby Moritz Warburg (1866–1929) was a German art historian and Kulturwissenschaftler (scholar of cultural studies) who developed new concepts in the understanding of the cultural expression of human consciousness and behavior.
Warburg was born in Hamburg on June 13, 1866, the firstborn son of the banker Moritz Warburg and Charlotte Oppenheim Warburg.
According to the Warburg legend, Aby Warburg rejected his birthright as his father's successor in the firm at the age of thirteen.
www.bookrags.com /research/warburg-aby-eorl-14   (387 words)

  
 Aby Warburg and the Anthropological Study of Art
As Warburg says in the second part of his lecture, the antelope dance is an agricultural ritual dedicated to the antelope as the animal that brings water from melted snow, and in the humiskachina dance, too, people also pray for rain and fertility.
According to Warburg, snakes are, at the same time, the symbol of the destroying force of the underworld and that of immortality and rebirth, as is similarly found in the image of Asclepius, the ancient god of healing.
Warburg was not alone to take note of the importance of imagery as the ‘language’ of the culture in the non-European world.
web.kyoto-inet.or.jp /people/katotk/tkato.html   (2771 words)

  
 Aby Warburg (1866-1929). The Survival of an Idea
Warburg was now able to draw on his abundant account of methods and links; he demonstrated that the structure of all paintings follows a certain zodiacal scheme that is based on oriental visual and literal sources.
Warburg did not describe the development of the arts or the history of Western culture; he was looking for the meaning and the functions of art for different societies, their role for different social classes and the energy of cultural memory they preserve.
Warburg used his "laboratory of the mind" (so he said) to cure the world from the ignorances of its heritage, making the reader in his lecture room a "patient" to be cured from narrow-mindedness, from the defects of western culture and psychic dependence.
www.educ.fc.ul.pt /hyper/resources/mbruhn   (5264 words)

  
 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - The Region - Paul Warburg's Crusade to Establish a Central Bank in the United ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Warburg thought it a bit presumptuous to attempt to educate a country to which he was so new a resident, so when advised by an associate to put the paper aside, he did so and attended to duties at his firm.
Warburg was surprised to learn that Aldrich, who before his European travels had not favored centralization and had advocated a national currency backed by government bonds, had changed his thinking and envisioned a European-type central bank for the United States.
Warburg realized that he had not been able to persuade the senator that if a central banking organization was to be created, it had to be a modified scheme based on the European models.
minneapolisfed.org /pubs/region/89-05/reg895d.cfm   (4240 words)

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