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Date: 2008-07-07 18:43:05
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MUFG buys 9.9% stake in Aberdeen
Mitsubishi UFJ Group has bought a 9.9% stake in Aberdeen Asset Management, the Scottish fund manager, as part of a strategic alliance with Japan’s largest financial group. The purchase is being made through Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank, a subsidiary of MUFG that will have exclusive rights to distribute [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 04:30:13
MUFG buys 9.9% stake in Aberdeen (pfblogs.org)
Mitsubishi UFJ Group has bought a 9.9% stake in Aberdeen Asset Management, the Scottish fund manager, as part of a strategic alliance with Japan’s largest financial group. The purchase is being made through Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank, a subsidiary of MUFG that will have exclusive rights to distribute [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 00:47:04
IT Experience Can Apply Outside the Box
IT Experience Can Apply Outside the Box With intense competition in IT jobs, some IT professions are considering career changes to other fields ... their IT requirements would be a credible candidate for a strategic alliance management position ... . For example: – An architect’s knowledge of best practices in systems design would be a strong asset [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 20:48:57
IT Pros Discouraged by Dismal Job-Hunting Results Should Find Much Brighter Employment Prospects in Alternative Fields
WESTPORT, Conn., Jan. 2, 2009 — The recession is heightening competition for a dwindling number of IT jobs, ... their IT requirements would be a credible candidate for a strategic alliance management position at a company ... . For example: An architect’s knowledge of best practices in systems design would be a strong asset [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 10:50:55
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
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
Friday…More newspaper cuts, and budget cuts spur community responses, and a Toby Friday
The Rocky Mountain News is the latest newspaper up for sale. E.W. Scripps Co. (SSP) ... for the management of a company to make when it has owned an asset for 80 years,” said Barry Lucas, analyst ... Alliance Action Network, The next stage of budget negotiations related to allocations to the State [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 16:17:00
The Coincidence Theorist’s Guide to 9/11
by Jeff Wells I posted an earlier version of this last week at Democratic Underground. I’ve added a number of more entries, and links for all ... , BCCI, Banco Ambrosiano, the P2 Lodge, the CIA/Mafia anti-Castro/Kennedy alliance, Iran/Contra ... . That Osama bin Laden is known to have been an asset of US foreign policy in no way implies he still [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 04:51:32
Could the Satyam/PwC fraud be the visible part of an iceberg? Where are India’s “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles”? Isn’t governance rather poor all over corporate India? Bad public finance may be a root cause
In a March 5 2007 article in The Statesman, I said: “Our farmers are peaceful hardworking people who should be paying taxes and user-fees normally but should not be otherwise disturbed or needlessly provoked by outsiders. It is the businessmen wishing to attack our farm populations who need to look hard in the mirror – to improve their [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 07:40:36
When Seniors Are the Product
The unfolding story of how a wealthy buyout firm takes advantage of vulnerable old people and low-wage employees to make money and enrich its top executives. To set the stage, think about yourself getting old, or about your parents or grandparents. Think about reaching a point where you just can't quite get by living on your own at home anymore [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 19:49:27
Don’t Want Your Stock to Go Down? It Doesn’t Have To!
Rob Curran reports: If you’re wondering why drug-plan administrator Express Scripts was added to the (do not) ... Motor said it qualified because of its Ford Motor Credit arm. A spokeswoman for Alliance Data Systems ... ,” writes Doug Kass, president of Seabreeze Partners Management, on RealMoney.com. [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 15:25:10
The Ethics of Revenue-Sharing: An Oxymoron? By Richard J. Gladney and Sydney LeBlanc
Whose Best Interest is Served? For all of us in this business, the challenge to capture more assets and gather new clients is paramount, particularly for those who are just entering the asset management arenas. By aligning yourself ... . But if you accept a referral from a CPA, for example, who needs total wealth management which may include [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:36:54
John Brennan Drops from Consideration as DCI: Links to Bush, Tenet, Pinochet, Kresa, Logicon-TASC, 9/11, Southern Asset Mgt. (National Review, too)
By Alex ConstantineCall me names if you don't comprehend this, but Brennan's colleagues were instrumental in the actual 9/11 covert operation, as opposed to the "Islamo-fascist" farce passed off to the proletariat. As CIA director, he would have been ideally situated to sustain groomed public perceptions and generally advance an agenda that would [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 19:15:00
Viking Global. Global macro funds seek to find investments in whatever market they can gain an edge, whether it be equities, bonds, currencies, debt, ... . He is the definition of a risk manager. Bacon credits his risk management skills to the futures markets ... Moore Capital Management, he returned 86%. Bacon strives to identify long running macro [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 14:01:00
READ THIS - The New Economics
Two articles that detail how we are about to enter a new world of protectionism where governments will have to to act to protect nation states in a post - globalist and post-laissez fair capitalist economic model.Note how the top article states that gold may be seized by governments to reduce inflationary pressures - and then note how Iran three [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 13:10:00
Media & Politics
Media & Politics 02-Dec-08 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Extra Bonus Quote of the Day (Political Wire) “I’m sure some people voted for Barack Obama because of me.” — President Bush, in an interview with CNN. Resting a wee bit easier (by J -SOM at Liberal Rapture Hillary Clinton will be the next Secretary of State… Other than the [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 17:32:35
Hedge Fund Perry Capital Lays Off 20 to 30 Staffers in Equities
Richard Perry, the 53-year-old founder of Perry Capital, built his name in the world of merger arbitrage ... that requires fewer equity professionals. The nimble asset-allocation process that has been a hallmark ... Casualties include the failed buyouts of student lender Sallie Mae, Penn National Gaming, Alliance Data [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 15:10:18
The First Amended
When Kevin Rudd successfully ran against John Howard it was widely claimed there was very little difference between them. Both were said to be in the mainstream and the distinctions between them one of style rather than fundamentals. But if there were no difference there would have been no point in the elections [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 20:44:44
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/18/2008
The most ominous news story tonight: “IAF is Ready for Iran’s Nuclear Sites”.A period of great peril for Israel is fast approaching. Assuming that the mullahs have a nuclear capability, the most dangerous time will likely be between the inauguration of Barack Obama — when the United States will cease to be a credible deterrent to Iran — and the [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 04:59:00
EcoLogic Development Fund – CarbonPlus Director
POSITION DESCRIPTION & CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS Job Title: EcoLogic Development Fund – CarbonPlus™ Director Reports to: ... resources and to foster economic self-reliance through communal management of forests and water ... of the carbon offset value chain, from working with local communities and developers in asset creation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:17:21
Reviewing a Perilous Transition - The News of February 2008
The last post was about January 2008, the last “normal” month in the paradigm we had become accustomed to. Remember how it used to be? Four major search engines gave us a hint of competitiveness in the marketplace. The smallest of those engines, Ask.com was considered the cutting edge of search technologies and Yahoo! [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 19:47:03
THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 10 December 2008
FINTAG COMMENT The irony. One of the joys of running your own business is you can make up the rules, write your own staff handbook and dress like a slob. It is a well known fact that there is a correlation between wearing a tie and baldness and to preserve my locks of thick luscious Patrick Dempsey hair, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 08:32:27
AIG CEO Demands Apology from Mad Money’s Jim Cramer
WSJ Deal Journal] Related: The credit crunch means that consolidation looms for Mirant and Calpine as well. ... Searching for a home: Chrysler may join an existing manufacturing and development alliance between Japan’s Nissan and France’s Renault. WSJ Be wary, be very, very wary: Fives reasons why Lloyds [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 12:57:00
Mean Street: How Wall Street is Like Jake LaMotta
Wall Street is one hell of a fighter. Think Jake LaMotta, former middleweight champion. The Raging Bull. You can pummel his mid-section and pound his face, but you can’t knock him out. But now, Wall Street is exhausted. He sits hunched in his corner, drained by credit losses and a wounded business model [more...]
Date: 2008-06-09 10:55:00
The Biggest October Surprise of All: A World Capitalist Crash
“There will be periods of 30 years which will pass with the seeming importance of a single day, and single days with the importance of 30 years.” (old Marxist maxim) (Note: To avoid reinventing the wheel, and under the pressure of recent epochal events, I have used fragments of other texts I have written in the past few years, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 18:33:35
John F. Burns Reporting on the Imposition of Martial Law in Poland, December 1981 - June 1982
I think it's well-known that I am a fan of John F. Burns. The other day I got an email from a student at the University of Warsaw looking for his reporting from Poland after the imposition of martial law there in 1981. So I dug up the stories out of TimesSelect and copy/ pasted them to her. God bless the Internet. See the jump for a mother lode [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 01:26:36
Remember Iraq?
Bombs Kill 21 in IraqBy Katherine Zoepf and Alissa J. Rubin - International Herald TribuneBAGHDAD: Bombings took the lives of at least 21 Iraqis on Tuesday, including 3 children and 6 adults when an explosive on a horse-drawn cart went off in an attack on a primary school in Mosul [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 13:11:00
CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Blogs, Marriage Equality, Alternative Energy, Groups and Events
I will continue, for some time, be focusing on Marriage Equality. This is not my issue. I am not gay. I do know some gay people, but not so many that their issues tend to be mine. But the attempts in this nation to deny basic equality, to even RECOGNIZE basic equality, to some 10% of Americans, horrifies me. Prop 8 was terrible [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 23:00:00
IT Pros Discouraged by Dismal Job-Hunting Results Should Find Much Brighter Employment Prospects in Alternative Fields
IT Pros Discouraged by Dismal Job-Hunting Results Should Find Much Brighter Employment Prospects in Alternative Fields WESTPORT, Conn., Jan ... their IT requirements would be a credible candidate for a strategic alliance management position ... . For example: -- An architect's knowledge of best practices in systems design would be a strong asset [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 12:51:45
Thaksin supporters force PM Abhisit to call off policy speech THAILAND
Thaksin supporters force PM Abhisit to call off policy speech THAILAND By Leslie Lopez, SOUTH-EAST ASIA CORRESPONDENT Red-shirted protesters loyal to Thaksin flashing the thumbs-up sign as they blockaded the Parliament in Bangkok yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban pledged that the government would not use force to disperse the [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 23:21:39
SCADAPackES Programmable Automation Controller
SCADAPackES Programmable Automation Controller The Control Microsystems SCADAPackES augments the industry-renowned SCADAPack controller series with a ... Americas Form Alliance For Turbine... Emerson Process Management, Power & Water Solutions ... Competencies In Corporate Technology Department 6 Addressing Asset Management For Energy [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 10:37:13
The Implanted Radio-Frequency Identification Chip: “Smart Cards” in a Surveillance Society
Dandelion Salad by Tom Burghardt Global Research, September 6, ... when a RFID reader emits a radio signal. The chips are divided into two categories, passive or active. A “ ... 2008Antifascist Calling… RFID tags implanted in physical objects or human beings If incorporating [more...]
Date: 2008-09-07 17:29:50
The day that was… 2nd Dec Poznan
Ladies of the Indian Youth Delegation It was really hectic trying to get up and get ready in 10 minutes. I was reminded of the hostel days back in India where we would run to college in 5 minutes. The tragedies of the day started unfolding when I dropped one of my gloves while running for the bus [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 10:46:31
12.03.08
12.03.08 The Associated Press released a story yesterday reporting that the Bush Administration ignored in-house warnings of an impending mortgage collapse in 2005, delayed enacting proposed rules for a year, and bowed to lobbyists in stripping out the harshest of the proposals [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 06:26:05
Hedge Fund Backers | A List of Capital Sources for Hedge Funds
Hedge Fund Backers Hedge Fund Backers | Capital Raising Affiliated Managers Group Boston Brett Perryman Public company has taken equity stakes ... Z Asset Management New York Jim Marrone 212-965-0800 Has backed 17 hedge funds, including John ... Asset Management unit. The vehicle invests only its parent’s capital. Financial Risk Management London [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 13:35:00
Financial Experience, Skill and
Financial common sense is important no matter how much financial skill and financial experience one has ... of millions. These firms should have known better. Spain’s Banco Santander, which owns Abbey and Alliance ... exposure of about One Billion dollas. Kingate Management Ltd invested $3.5 Billion dollars. Again [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 07:01:13
SREI Raises Benchmark Rate by 150 Basis Points.
/India PRwire/ - SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited has announced a hike in its benchmark rate (SBR) by 150 basis points to 14 ... disbursement volumes.The company already has an Asset under Management (AUM) of over Rs 8,000 crore ... .5 per cent to come into effect from July 1, 2008.The company's Asset Liability Committee (ALCO [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 05:38:54
Repsol, Lukoil and Sacyr Vallhermosa Also Try Their Hand At Happy Families
by Edward Hugh: Barcelona“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”TolstoyWell this is an interesting little fable of modern family life, even if all the families involved may not be ones which many of my readers would normally wish to belong to [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 16:14:00
CommSolv Joins BlackBerry Alliance Program
Press Release Toronto, ON - CommSolv, a leader in Communications Asset Management solutions for wireless and wireline networks announces that it has ... management solution for BlackBerry Enterprise Server on CommSolv’s Mobile Asset Management platform. The CommSolv Communications Asset Management platform enables enterprises to centralize the control [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 15:20:51
The Economy, Democracy and the American Presidential Elections by Noam Chomsky
The Economy, Democracy and the American Presidential ElectionsNoam Chomsky interviewed by Assaf Kfouryas-Safir (translated for ZNet), November 27, 2008 AK: The economic crisis is felt acutely in the US, but has now spread to the entire world, even to countries (in South America, for example) that initially thought they would be spared [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 02:51:00
Q&A with the Banker Panel at the National Auctioneers Association
Here are my notes from yesterday’s Mortgage Industry Panel from the National Auctioneers Association’s Convention in Denver. When known, the name of the panelist answering the question is noted. Panelists A. Wesley Schuneman Founder, Ultimate Funding Group Mortgage Brokerage Kevin Feakes Mortgage Banker, First National Bank; [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 08:00:57
CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Blogs, Alternative Energy, Groups and Events
I will continue, for some time, be focusing on Marriage Equality. I will keep the statement by Keith Olbermann on Prop 8 on the top of my California Focus for sometime because I think it needs to be heard over and over again. It is a brilliant statement right from the heart [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 22:51:00
CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Blogs, Alternative Energy, Groups and Events
I will continue, for some time, be focusing on Marriage Equality. I will keep the statement by Keith Olbermann on Prop 8 on the top of my California Focus for sometime because I think it needs to be heard over and over again. It is a brilliant statement right from the heart [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 16:50:00
CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Blogs, Alternative Energy, Groups and Events
I will continue, for some time, be focusing on Marriage Equality. I will keep the statement by Keith Olbermann on Prop 8 on the top of my California Focus for sometime because I think it needs to be heard over and over again. It is a brilliant statement right from the heart [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 20:39:00
Deals of the Day: Did Goldman Sachs Hurt Bear and Lehman?
By Stephen Grocer and Heidi Moore Deals of the Day includes all the major news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions and financing. For breaking deal news, turn to the WSJ’s Deals & Deal Makers page, or click here to automatically sign up for Deals Alert emails. Mergers & Acquisitions Sprint: The U [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 12:47:05
How to save the Amazon rainforest
Emerging mechanisms to protect the world's largest rainforest By Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com, January 04, 2009 Environmentalists have long voiced concern over the vanishing Amazon rainforest, but they haven't been particularly effective at slowing forest loss [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 08:29:00
January 7 - IBM/MSFT Layoff Rumors Remain - Oglivy Cuts 10% - LM Glasfiber Spins 150 Out the Door - Cessna Warns - 400 Less at Barclays - Aloca Sheds 15,200 - EMC Deletes 2400 - Lenovo Erases 2500
Mike: Good day to all. I hope that today’s news doesn’t bring another whopper like the 13,000 jobs being lost at Alcoa. The jobs news for today is rather light Challenger Job-Cut Report. with the big news coming on Thursday Jobless Claims. and Friday Employment Situation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:47:48
The Bailout Plan: Oops, Get Out the Big Checkbook
The "Draft Proposal for Bailout Plan" is now available. What to make of it? Well, it certainly is sweeping and simplistic. I have two complaints ... any mortgage related asset. No law can check him; no law governs him. He is restricted only [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 06:29:05
Repsol, Lukoil and Sacyr Vallhermosa Also Try Their Hand At Happy Families
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”TolstoyWell this is an interesting little fable of modern family life, even if all the families involved may not be ones which many of my readers would normally wish to belong to [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 16:22:00
