Asset Manager Bucks Trend With Spacs Move

US alternative asset manager Angelo, Gordon has decided to buck the trend by listing a special purpose acquisition company while others were waiting for equity market conditions to improve.
The hedge fund, real estate and private equity manager, which has $15bn (€9.6bn) of assets under management, has set out to raise $300m for the Spac, the [...]

Deutsche Banks Arm To Foray Into Indias Realty Market With Billion Investment

RREEF Alternative Investments, the global alternative investment management business of Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management division, announced it has launched a new venture that will invest over $1 billion over the next three years in India’s growing real estate market.
The new venture, RREEF India Advisors, which will be run by country head Kishore Gotety, will be [...]

How To Crack The Asia Pacific Investment Code

The “Asian century” and the “Chinese century” are terms that you are virtually certain to be hearing with greater frequency and earnest. Investment Banking And with the forthcoming Olympic Games in China, the volume of this terminology is sure to intensify.
With the U.S. dollar cascading relative to many Asian currencies and with treasuries and [...]

Allegro’s Take On Private Banking In India

Kunal Kashyap, founder and CEO of Indian investment bank Allegro Advisors, discusses the firm’s focus on wealth management and what advice he is giving his clients.
What prompted Allegro to start offering wealth management services in India?
We started Allegro with the vision of creating a full-service Indian investment bank so wealth management services were part of [...]

Execs Profit By Querying 401(K) Costs, Plans Can Save Millions

A growing number of 401(k) plan executives are demanding to know how much in excess revenue is generated by their plans and how they can get their hands on that money to cut costs and enhance services to participants.
Among those that have gone through the process: Akzo Nobel in Chicago, with $1.6 billion in plan [...]

New Rules To Tighten Security Reviews Of Foreign Investments

The Bush administration, pledging a “strong and continued commitment” to safeguarding national security, issued 90 pages of regulations Monday to implement a new law tightening security reviews of foreign investments.
Congress passed the law last year after an uproar in 2006 over a plan by Dubai-owned DP World to manage six of the largest ports in [...]

Assault On Touch Judge Leads To Park Boycott

Wellington rugby league referees are refusing to turn up to former capital city champions North City’s home ground after a touch judge was assaulted and a referee’s car windscreen was broken on their last two visits.
After no judicial action was taken against any individuals when Alan Prentice was attacked by a spectator in a pre-season [...]

Investment Firms Pull Back On Borrowing

Big Wall Street investment companies are pulling back on their borrowing from the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending program.
The Federal Reserve says in a report Thursday that those firms averaged $24.8 billion in daily borrowing over the past week. That compares with $32.6 billion in the previous week.
The program, which began March 17, is one of [...]

How You Can Choose The Right Investment Bank

Once again, the heavens are open and it is raining IPOs in Kenya. Little is understood about IPOs in Kenya except that they “make money” and that share allocations are handed out in measly doses by mean investment banks.
Even much less understood is the concept of investment banks which most of us cannot differentiate from [...]

Blackrock Profit Disappoints Investment Banking

BlackRock Inc.’s first-quarter net income rose 24% but failed to meet analysts’ expectations, as investors withdrew money from the firm’s core bond funds to put into lower-fee cash investments.
While the company posted earnings of $1.82 a share, Investment Banking up from $1.48 a share, a year earlier, analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial forecast on average [...]