Four Ways to Help Us Out of the Crisis

This column was written by Michael Kao, CEO and portfolio manager of Akanthos Capital Management, a hedge fund specializing in convertible, capital structure and event-driven arbitrage strategies. It was originally published on RealMoney on Sept. 26.

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The catastrophic turn of events in the financial markets this month were actually exacerbated by the Treasury's "fixes" themselves.

From my "front lines" perch as a hedge fund manager that traverses up and down capital structures (loans, bonds, convertibles, preferreds, equities, options, etc.), let me offer four key observations and solutions that the equity-centric media coverage may have missed: ...