Deals of the Day: Good Riddance to 2008

Today in Bailouts Everyone gets a car: General Motors sweetened customer incentives a day after the federal government committed $6 billion to ... : The bank sold a $361 million stake in its Global Investors asset-management unit to Aberdeen ... up between its management and Bespoke Hotels. Times of London Buyside Buyout firms are beginning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 12:01:16

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Deals of the Day: Good Riddance to 2008

Today in Bailouts Everyone gets a car: General Motors sweetened customer incentives a day after the federal government committed $6 billion to ... : The bank sold a $361 million stake in its Global Investors asset-management unit to Aberdeen ... up between its management and Bespoke Hotels. Times of London Buyside Buyout firms are beginning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 10:43:00

Risk Management Watch: Firms to Boost Spending on Risk Management in ‘09

Fortune 1000 companies plan to invest more in risk management in 2009 as experts anticipate new laws and regulations aimed at improving corporate ... role as Global Head of Alternative and Quantitative Investments (A&Q) within UBS Global Asset ... risk management oversight. That’s according to the results of a recent survey conducted [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 08:00:40

Is IBM likely to layoff 16,000 jobs?

International Business Machines Corp, the biggest technology employer, may cut thousands of jobs this month amid the global economic slowdown, ... Asset Management LLC in Bedford Hills, New York. “There will be job cuts. For now, reducing ... according to the employee group Alliance for IBM.Employees have been hearing that layoffs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 06:14:00

panch-tattva talk…chartists and market

Friends,The chartists are busy finding clues to the markets next move ... them. However, while Russia suffers due to low crude prices, India thrives. Landsman of ING Asset Management team says ‘global rate cuts and stimulus plans are going to drive consumption, which most [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 03:54:44

Morgan Stanley Memo: ‘We Also Will Be Looking at Acquisitions’

Today, Morgan Stanley closed its investment from Mitsubishi UFJ ... Morgan Stanley’s global investment banking and asset management expertise with MUFG’s vast resources ... , and we are confident that the combination of these two world-class institutions creates a powerful global alliance [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 13:10:49

No Floor For Industrial Metals

The base metals continued on their quest for a floor on Friday ... s Tiberius Asset Management, who predicted that the global recession will reduce demand for industrial ... to any kind of bad economic news,” said Michael K. Smith, of T&K Futures & Options in Port St [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 18:45:44

Credit Problems Continue to Crop Up

While the Federal Reserve and other global central banks endeavor to use their Rube Goldbergian powers to engineer a decline in Libor and other key ... cents on the dollar Wednesday, according to Derrick Wulf, portfolio manager at Dwight Asset Management, down from about 80 cents on the dollar early in November. “The CMBX market represents, to many [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 17:10:34

Asia Hedge Fund Guide

Asia Hedge FundsAsia Hedge Fund GuideHere is a short collection of articles on the hedge fund industry in Asia ... serviced by its recently expanded Asia-Pacific prime brokerage arm, as it seeks more business with global ... index was up by 27% and assets under management rose about 75%. From inception in the late 1980s [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 10:51:00

Welcome New Client, Ventureforth, Inc.

I am now starting to work with a new client, Ventureforth, a global leader in mobilizing the workforce.   When I say ??? ... a total wireless solution providing the mobile glue in a company???s supply chain management, work and asset management needs. The basic strategy will be to focus on real world application stories [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:01:36

Global Stocks Tumble on Economic Concern; Oil Falls, Yen Rises

Global Stocks Tumble on Economic Concern; Oil Falls, Yen Rises By Lynn Thomasson and Sarah Jones Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) ... , Minneapolis-based fund manager at Thrivent Asset Management, which oversees about $70 billion. “ ... for about one-third of the total value wiped off world equities this year. MSCI’s measure tracking both [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 23:19:46

GoldenSource Appoints Shashank Mishra Sales Manager for India, Creating Full Service Mumbai Presence

/India PRwire/ - GoldenSource Corporation, a global software provider of enterprise data management (EDM) ... positions at Reliance Capital Asset Management, Ltd., Metlife India, Travelex, OM Kotak Mahindra Life [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 05:45:03

Implications of Repricing of Dollar Denominated Assets

In the wake of global financial events, a couple of articles have caught my attention in terms of implications for the dollar ... of the rich and middle class across Asia. ... The asset management operations of American banks [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 15:28:16

SAC Capital (Steven Cohen): Hedge Fund Portfolio Tracking - 13F Filing Q3 2008

This is the 3rd Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund portfolio tracking series ... , “SAC is a multi-strategy, private asset management firm founded by Steven A. Cohen in 1992 ... , Global Quantitative Strategies, Fixed Income and Credit, Global Macro Strategies, Convertible Bonds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:07:32

Quadro Engineering Partners With Micro-Macinazione To Offer Jet Mill Product Line

Quadro Engineering Partners With Micro-Macinazione To Offer Jet.. ... Releases New Features For VISION daratechPLANT 2009 Conference Launches Plant Asset Scanning... Flexible, Full Featured Chemical Data Management Software Chromalox Introduces Global Design For ANSI [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 12:52:32

Will investors support Pandit's new plan for Citi?

Citigroup Inc.'s board is supposedly standing behind CEO Vikram Pandit as he pulls apart Sanford Weill's trumpeted financial ... that the banks reached a definitive agreement to combine Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group ... ? This restructuring is sounding similar to American International Group Inc.'s asset sell-off, and [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:22:38

Gordon Brown: Step-Skipper

For some months now there’s a being a bit of amnesia about how we got to this point in the global banking crisis ... management entity and a slimmed down recapitalized system was returned to the private sector ... of the US Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.   The Gordon Brown approach was praised to an extent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 03:11:25

A Good CEO is Not Always All that is Needed - Nortel

The news that Nortel Networks NT (TSX) has moved into bankruptcy is not all that surprising ... in October, 2005. The global asset meltdown and recession simply hastened the inevitable end ... . CEOs are essential to a company’s overall success but they are just a component.  Nortel’s management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:29:00

Surprise!... Obama's Climate Czar Is Board Member of Major Carbon Offset Company ...Update: Her Husband Lobbied on Energy Issues

It was reported yesterday that Barack Obama picked a radical socialist as his climate czar ... of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm.Commenting on Ms. Browner's election ... markets. Her extensive experience and global perspective will be a tremendous asset to APX as we look [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:26:00

Global Investing Roundups Friday, November 21st, 2008

GMAC Files to Become a Bank; Unemployment Nears 26-Year High; Mogul Signals Interest in Circuit City; Banco do Brasil Buying Out Rival; ... company GMAC has filed to become a bank, a shot at getting a slice of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout. Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP owns 51% of GMAC. General [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 11:43:06

BayTalkitec appoints Anil Sabnis, Senior Vice President, Business Strategies

/India PRwire/ - BayTalkitec, a market leader in the VAS & CIM (Customer Interaction Management) ... and computer telephony industries and in developing successful business strategies will be a great asset as we continue to develop our communication technology offering for global enterprises [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 11:36:16

Latin American mining congress

Latin America’s mining meets money annual meeting place – THE place for inspiration, deals and business ... metals as an asset class with investors from the George Washington University, the IFC, Sprott Asset Management, TD Asset Management, US Global Investors & more. Ministers from Mexico, Colombia [more...]

Date: 2008-06-07 18:24:10

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