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Making Matters Worse:
The Dangers of Auction Rate Securities
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Preferred Stock IV:
Advantages of Remarketed Preferred
Mr. Fichera describes the benefits of a special type of preferred stock he developed for clients as an alternative to auction rate securities
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How Can Directors Become Truly Independent?
Reprinted from Directors Monthly, published by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), June 2008.
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Reprinted from Q2 - A Publication of the Yale School of Management, Fall 2007.
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You Call That Debt?
Washington’s bond sellers should take a lesson from corporate treasurers and develop callable debt issues. Joseph S. Fichera and Charles M. Jones published in Barron’s.
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Uncle Sam, Venture Capitalist
Joseph S. Fichera and Robert M. Rubin analyse problems with U.S. State Department investment policies in Eastern Europe. Published in The Wall Street Journal.
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Of Money and Merit
The upside down effects of Wall Street's bonus system.
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Street Smart
A road map for the investment banking analyst. Published in Princeton University's Business Today.
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Lowering Environmental and Capital Costs with Ratepayer-Backed Bonds
This is a reprint of an article published in Natural Gas & Electricity
© 2007, February, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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A Rising Tide: Do Utility Securitizations Have a Future?
Joseph Fichera examines the recent Texas Transition Bonds issue as a model for Utility Securitizations. Published in Asset Securitization Report, February 14, 2005.
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Why is Wall Street Waiting?
An analysis of the stranded-cost issue in the utility industry. Joseph S. Fichera published in Electrical World.
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Dow-Jones Irwin Library of Investment Banking
Joseph S. Fichera provided chapters on remarketed preferred stocks and corporate tax-exempt financing.
Corporate Tax-Exempt Financing (PDF 630k)
Preferred Stock: Advantages of Remarketed Preferred (PDF 700k) | 
