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Faced with accusations of securities fraud and conflicts of interest, Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, asserted Friday that the firm was committed to its clients and said it would establish a committee to monitor its business practices.
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Small Financial Core Office Space for Lease View more documents from Chris Fyvie . Address Available Space (sf) Asking Gross Rental Rate (psf) Asking Monthly Rate 120 Adelaide Street W 3,366 $54.45 $15,273.23 121 King Street W 4,291 $53.01 $18,955.49 121 King Street W 3,340 $53.01 $14,754.45 144 Front Street W 3,826 $33.40 $10,649.03 144 Front Street W 3,934 $33.40 $10,949.63 181 University Avenue 3,809 $51.45 $16,331.09 20 Queen Street W 4,109 $44.21 $15,138.24 25 King Street W 3,851 $58.09 $18,642.05 330 Bay Street 3,282 $39.40 $10,775.90 330 Bay Street 3,325 $39.40 $10,917.08 36 Toronto Street 4,043 $39.90 $13,442.98 36 Toronto Street 3,304 $39.90 $10,985.80 365 Bay Street 3,049 $38.84 $9,868.60 372 Bay Street 4,963 $37.38 $15,459.75 372 Bay Street 4,938 $37.38 $15,381.87 401 Bay Street 4,688 $45.48 $17,767.52 55 York Street 3,268 $37.39 $10,182.54 67 Yonge Street 3,950 $35.38 $11,645.92 8 King Street E 4,404 $38.97 $14,301.99 OfficeSearchToronto.com tracks available office space across the GTA. Want a survey or availability report somewhere else in Toronto
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Queen Richmond Centre Globe and Mail article New website are all the range to help marketing development properties. As far as new sites go, this one is pretty good. Even going as far as registering a Twitter account . If you’re going to follow them, don’t forget to follow me too ! Some of the things I liked the most about the website: Tour of the Atrium – http://www.qrcwest.com/building-qtvr.htm Panoramic views from the 5th floor and rooftop – http://www.qrcwest.com/view.htm Images and News – http://www.qrcwest.com/news.htm Funny how a lot of the pictures and ideas resemble a site I designed for Allen Park . Also funny that they used the same design firm for the building ( & Co ). Still, a great project and great website. Hope more landlord’s out there take this kind of initiative.
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Featured Building – Queen Richmond Centre West
Midtown Toronto Office Space – April 2010 View more documents from Chris Fyvie . Address Available Space (sf) Asking Gross Rental Rate (psf) Asking Monthly Rate 110 Eglinton Avenue E 2,770 $29.98 $6,920.38 110 Eglinton Avenue E 3,237 $29.98 $8,087.11 124 Merton Street 2,345 $28.98 $5,663.18 150 Eglinton Avenue E 2,542 $28.60 $6,058.43 161 Eglinton Avenue E 2,782 $30.06 $6,968.91 1867 Yonge Street 3,126 $33.27 $8,666.84 1881 Yonge Street 2,758 $34.27 $7,876.39 20 Eglinton Avenue W 2,000 $36.95 $6,158.33 20 Eglinton Avenue W 3,740 $36.95 $11,516.08 2200 Yonge Street 2,077 $36.99 $6,402.35 25 Sheppard Avenue W 2,423 $41.21 $8,320.99 3080 Yonge Street 2,021 $33.90 $5,709.33 3080 Yonge Street 3,655 $33.90 $10,325.38 36 Eglinton Avenue W 2,810 $29.78 $6,973.48 40 Eglinton Avenue E 3,434 $31.98 $9,151.61 4120 Yonge Street, Phase 3 2,321 $39.35 $7,610.95 45 Sheppard Avenue E 2,177 $33.42 $6,062.95 4576 Yonge Street 2,795 $32.95 $7,674.60 4711 Yonge Street 3,478 $38.53 $11,167.28 4711 Yonge Street 2,773 $38.53 $8,903.64 477 Mount Pleasant Road 2,775 $25.20 $5,827.50 4950 Yonge Street 2,276 $39.48 $7,488.04 5000 Yonge Street 3,139 $44.54 $11,650.92 5001 Yonge Street 2,514 $33.10 $6,934.45 5001 Yonge Street 2,400 $33.10 $6,620.00 5160 Yonge Street, Northeast Tower 3,070 $37.83 $9,678.18 55 Eglinton Avenue E 3,918 $24.81 $8,100.47 55 Eglinton Avenue E 3,200 $24.81 $6,616.00 90 Eglinton Avenue E 2,151 $35.60 $6,381.30 90 Eglinton Avenue E 3,494 $35.60 $10,365.53 We provide free custom surveys of available office space including a price list and floor plans. Simply reach out to us here!
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Midtown Toronto Office Space for Lease – April 2010
Richard X. Bove, the outspoken banking analyst at Rochdale Securities, said Goldman Sachs should oust its top executives because they failed to understand the politics of the financial crisis and mishandled regulators’ accusations of fraud against the firm.
Click on the image above for full version Here are the latest headlines for April 2010 that caught my attention. HIGHLIGHTS First Canadian Place gets 72-storey facelift Almost 40 years after it was constructed, the 72-storey, 298-metre-high First Canadian Place office tower still retains its status as Canada’s largest office tower.
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Office Space and Commercial Real Estate News Toronto – May 2010
Sixty-five percent of Americans support tougher financial regulation, according to a recent ABC News poll and a recent article by Jonathan Berry of Daily Finance, “Organized Labor Puts a Bull’s-Eye on Wall Street.”
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Two-Thirds of Americans Want Tougher Financial Regulation of Wall Street
Prudential C.E.O. Tidjane Thiam, in a final drive to convince investors of his plan to buy the Asian businesses of American International Group, will further explain the deal to investors this week, The Financial Times reported.
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Prudential Chief to Make Last Pitch on A.I.G. Deal
Cadillac Fairview will have some work to do leasing up the TD Centre in heart of the financial core. Due to some big chunks of space coming available at the end of the year they have created a new website to help advertise the buildings
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Featured Building – 77 King Street West – TD Centre
One hundred twenty Morgan Stanley offices are expected to be closed throughout the United States, according to a recent article by Michael J. Moore in Bloomberg.com, “Morgan Stanley Smith Barney to Close 120 ‘Overlap’ U.S.
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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Plans to Close 120 Offices – Impact on Current Employees Unknown
A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel has awarded damages to the Gale family as a result of losses sustained in Lehman-backed Main Street Natural Gas Bonds sold to them by their broker. The panel granted rescission, which is to say it ordered the brokerage firm to take back the bonds and reimburse the Gales the purchase price they paid for the bonds
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Investors Recover Losses on Main Street Natural Gas Bonds
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Full Post – more pics Construction is currently in progress on what will be the largest sports park in China, featuring “picturesque and sustainable public spaces” as well an Olympic-size stadium inspired by the local flora found on the nearby banks of Hangzhou’s West Lake. Designed by NBBJ in collaboration with CCDI, the 400,000 sq meter Hangzhou Sports Park in Hangzhou, China began construction back in December and is expected to be completed in 2013. Read more: Gigantic Flower-Shaped Stadium Blossoming in China | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
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Gigantic Flower-Shaped Green Stadium Blossoming in China
In the wake of suing Goldman Sachs for fraud in the creation and sale of mortgage-backed derivatives, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it will look closely at other similar transactions by other big Wall Street banks, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article by Carrick Mollencamp, Serena Ng, Gregory Zuckerman and Scott Patterson (Note: the WSJ appears to have double the usual number of reporters on this story).
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Wall Street’s "Moral Corruption" Goes Far Beyond Goldman Sachs
“Who wants to entrust their money to a Goldman Sachs fund after this?” asks Brett Arends in his ROI column in the Wall Street Journal. Arends is referring to the sorry spectacle of a Senate hearing at which four Goldman executives were asked questions about the firm’s role in the collapse of the mortgage market. They seemed unable or unwilling to explain why Goldman sold investments that internal Goldman emails described as “shitty.”
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Goldman Sachs Refuses to Confirm that "Goldman Puts Its Clients’ Interests First
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The Associated Press is reporting that a Senate probe has determined that Goldman Sachs implemented a strategy to profit from the housing meltdown and reap billions at the expense of clients.
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Senate Probe Reveals Goldman Sachs’ Scheme to Defraud Investors in the Sale of Toxic Securities
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Please note the attached office space is not listed with OfficeSearchToronto.com but call us first at 416-992-9869 or email us here! Address Available Space (sf) Asking Gross Rental Rate (psf) Asking Monthly Rate 110 Eglinton Avenue E 2,770 $29.98 $6,920.38 110 Eglinton Avenue E 3,237 $29.98 $8,087.11 124 Merton Street 2,345 $28.98 $5,663.18 150 Eglinton Avenue E 2,542 $28.60 $6,058.43 161 Eglinton Avenue E 2,782 $30.06 $6,968.91 1867 Yonge Street 3,126 $33.27 $8,666.84 1881 Yonge Street 2,758 $34.27 $7,876.39 20 Eglinton Avenue W 2,000 $36.95 $6,158.33 20 Eglinton Avenue W 3,740 $36.95 $11,516.08 2200 Yonge Street 2,077 $36.99 $6,402.35 25 Sheppard Avenue W 2,423 $41.21 $8,320.99 3080 Yonge Street 2,021 $33.90 $5,709.33 3080 Yonge Street 3,655 $33.90 $10,325.38 36 Eglinton Avenue W 2,810 $29.78 $6,973.48 40 Eglinton Avenue E 3,434 $31.98 $9,151.61 4120 Yonge Street, Phase 3 2,321 $39.35 $7,610.95 45 Sheppard Avenue E 2,177 $33.42 $6,062.95 4576 Yonge Street 2,795 $32.95 $7,674.60 4711 Yonge Street 3,478 $38.53 $11,167.28 4711 Yonge Street 2,773 $38.53 $8,903.64 477 Mount Pleasant Road 2,775 $25.20 $5,827.50 4950 Yonge Street 2,276 $39.48 $7,488.04 5000 Yonge Street 3,139 $44.54 $11,650.92 5001 Yonge Street 2,514 $33.10 $6,934.45 5001 Yonge Street 2,400 $33.10 $6,620.00 5160 Yonge Street, Northeast Tower 3,070 $37.83 $9,678.18 55 Eglinton Avenue E 3,918 $24.81 $8,100.47 55 Eglinton Avenue E 3,200 $24.81 $6,616.00 90 Eglinton Avenue E 2,151 $35.60 $6,381.30 90 Eglinton Avenue E 3,494 $35.60 $10,365.53
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Goldman Sachs with defrauding clients by selling them toxic collateral debt obligations (CDOs) containing residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) that were secretly selected by a hedge-fund manager, who stood to benefit if the value of those securities declined. Unfortunately for Goldman, this is just one of several major problems facing the firm.
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Goldman Sachs’ Problems Continue to Grow
The SEC’s civil lawsuit filed on April 22, 2010 against Roy Dixon, Jr. and his allegedly fraudulent private equity fund Onyx Capital Advisors, LLC, serves to illustrate an important point about dealing with registered securities salespersons such as Mr. Dixon: their employing brokerage firms often are unable or unwilling to detect the alleged fraudulent conduct of their representatives
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SEC Action Against Private Equity Fund Onyx Capital Advisors May Expose Brokerage Firm to Significant Legal Claims
For commercial real estate advice or a custom survey of available office space call 416-992-9869 or contact us here! Address Available Space (sf) Asking Gross Rental Rate (psf) Asking Monthly Rate 120 Adelaide Street W 3,366 $54.45 $15,273.23 121 King Street W 4,291 $53.01 $18,955.49 121 King Street W 3,340 $53.01 $14,754.45 144 Front Street W 3,826 $33.40 $10,649.03 144 Front Street W 3,934 $33.40 $10,949.63 181 University Avenue 3,809 $51.45 $16,331.09 20 Queen Street W 4,109 $44.21 $15,138.24 25 King Street W 3,851 $58.09 $18,642.05 330 Bay Street 3,282 $39.40 $10,775.90 330 Bay Street 3,325 $39.40 $10,917.08 36 Toronto Street 4,043 $39.90 $13,442.98 36 Toronto Street 3,304 $39.90 $10,985.80 365 Bay Street 3,049 $38.84 $9,868.60 372 Bay Street 4,963 $37.38 $15,459.75 372 Bay Street 4,938 $37.38 $15,381.87 401 Bay Street 4,688 $45.48 $17,767.52 55 York Street 3,268 $37.39 $10,182.54 67 Yonge Street 3,950 $35.38 $11,645.92 8 King Street E 4,404 $38.97 $14,301.99
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Financial Core Toronto Office Space for Lease – April 2010
James Grant, editor of the oft quoted Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, has an idea to improve the financial reform proposal being considered by Congress. “Let the senior financiers keep their salaries and bonuses, and let them do with their banks what they will. If, however, their bank fails, let the bankers themselves fail
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Financial Reform – "Put the Fear of God into Wall Street"
The Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a review of certain types of exchange traded funds. The SEC’s primary focus is on leveraged and inverse leveraged exchange traded funds and actively managed exchange traded funds, especially derivatives-based exchange traded funds. See John Spence’s Wall Street Journal article, “Leveraged ETF’s Are Under SEC Scrutiny.”
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SEC Scrutinizes Use of Derivatives by Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
In the wake of suing Goldman Sachs for fraud in the creation and sale of mortgage-backed derivatives, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it will look closely at other similar transactions by other big Wall Street banks, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article by Carrick Mollencamp, Serena Ng, Gregory Zuckerman and Scott Patterson (Note: the WSJ appears to have double the usual number of reporters on this story).
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Goldman – Like CDO Abuses Were Prevalent Across Wall Street