Posted by admin on June 20th, 2008
New England Patriots offensive lineman Matt Light and about 20 other star athletes loaned more than $8 million to a California real estate company that teamed up with Fidelity Investments and Citigroup Inc. to invest in apartment complexes before collapsing and filing for bankruptcy protection.
Light, Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay and Los Angeles Angels [...]
Posted by admin on June 15th, 2008
Tharwa Investment Company, a closed Kuwaiti shareholding company with a paid up capital of KD15m announces the launch of a new fund to expand the offers for its investors on local and regional level.
The Tharwa Arab Investment Fund delivers medium to long term capital appreciation primarily through investing in a diversified portfolio of quality stocks [...]
Posted by admin on June 5th, 2008
Deutsche Bank AG.’s co-head of investment banking, Anshu Jain sees ’some normalisation’ but does not consider the global financial crisis to be over yet.
‘Is the crisis behind us? Market indicators point to different conclusions,’ he said according to a presentation at an investors’ conference.
Jain estimates U.S. house prices will decline by a further 13 percent [...]
Posted by admin on June 5th, 2008
Chennai, June 3 International rating agency, Standard & Poor’s (S & P) has lowered its ratings on a number of top investment banking companies in the United States. S & P has downgraded Lehman Brothers Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., and Morgan Stanley.
According to a press release issued by S & P, it has [...]
Posted by admin on May 31st, 2008
Back in the 1980s, David Bonderman was the chief dealmaker for Robert Bass, a Texan billionaire. He helped to structure the $550 million buyout of American Savings and Loan Association of California, which was caught in the S&L morass. It was a complex deal, requiring lots of negotiations with federal regulators. But it ultimately turned [...]
Posted by admin on May 31st, 2008
Wall Street investment companies are borrowing less from the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending program.
A Fed report Thursday says the companies averaged $12.3 billion in daily borrowing over the past week. That compares with $14.2 billion the previous week.
The program begun March 17 is one of several steps the central bank has taken in response to [...]
Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2008
Hedge fund Reech AiM said on Monday that its flagship $160 million (82 million pound) Iceberg European real estate fund posted a 29 percent net return in its first year, massively outperforming underlying commercial property markets.
According to data from Investment Property Databank, the combined rental income and capital growth return on British commercial property in [...]
Posted by admin on May 17th, 2008
The Board of Audit and Inspection has asked the government to sell 15 subsidiaries of state-run corporations including Korea Real Estate Investment Trust, Korea Housing Management, Korea Asset Investment Trust, Ansan Urban Development Institute and Korea Enterprise Data to private firms.
It is also calling for the restructure of seven subsidiaries of state-run corporations and the [...]
Posted by admin on May 17th, 2008
Mozambique expects foreign direct investment to climb 30 percent in the next four years as the economy expands, Finance Minister Manuel Chang said.
Investment will probably reach $450 million this year and $560 million by 2011, compared with $430 million in 2007, Chang said in an interview in Maputo, Mozambique today. Agriculture and tourism are likely [...]
Posted by admin on May 15th, 2008
Under the new agreement BDO Stoy Hayward Investment Management, which has recently been awarded Chartered Firm status, will offer a range of services to employees of Thomsons Online Benefits clients.
The services, to be offered on a fully transparent fee basis, include a range of options on investment advice from pension through to all aspects of [...]