Ms. Stewart, who previously held senior banking positions at Wachovia Corp. and later was chief executive of Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA, created an acquisition book that flags clients who might be in the market for additional services such as a home mortgage or student loan, as well as those who recently had a bad experience with the bank and need some extra care.

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Whenever a company trading at a premium to book value issues new shares, whether from a secondary offering or in the course of an acquisition, the book value per share goes up.

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Jeff Matthews, a Berkshire shareholder and author of a book on Mr. Buffett, said the acquisition didn't meet the investor's usual criteria.

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The worst mistakes of this crisis were arguably made in relatively simple areas of retail and commercial banking from the concentration of risk in the corporate-loan book of HBOS to Wachovia's kamikaze acquisition of Golden West, a Californian lender stuffed full of mortgage-shaped grenades.

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Chorion, the company that controls Blyton's estate, said it could not be 100% sure about the differences between the picture book and the novel because they both "pre-date our acquisition of the Blyton Estate".

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