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Banks get back into property
Banks are starting to lend money on low-risk ... A large number of substantial debt agreements were ... Last month, Nick Leslau’s Max Property Group agreed ... Large institutions are also making the most of ... John Knowles, head of corporate finance at property ... The turnround by banks has been quite sudden....
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Bank of China goes global with new funds
Bank of China is aiming to speed up ... According to Daniel Penseyres, chief executive of the ... The fund launch follows Bank of China’s decision ... Three years ago, the Japanese market was 12 ... BOC Fund is part of a private bank ... Bank of China has hired private bankers to...
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Goldman ranks top in China
Goldman Sachs is set to pass the half-way ... The US banking giant has already earned $81m ... Its revenues have been bolstered by an estimated ... Bank of America Merrill Lynch is second in ... Overall investment banking revenues in Greater China total ... Goldman could further strengthen its league table position...
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Middle East private bank hiring continues selectively
Private banks and wealth managers are regrouping their ... Stephen Heal, director of recruiter HB International, said: ... Lombard Odier, the Swiss independent private bank, hired ... Bank of China, the nation’s second largest lender, ... Credit Suisse’s private bank in February hired a...
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Bank of China goes on hiring spree in Switzerland
Bank of China, China's second largest lender, has ... BoC became the first Chinese bank to open ... The new hires were detailed in a press ... Jean-Pierre De Barro joins as head of sales. ... Daniel Alexander Rieber, joins as senior private banker, ... The new hires report to Jacques Mechelany, the...
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RBS to raise up to $2.4bn from Bank Of China sale
Royal Bank of Scotland Group has started selling ... The 10.8 billion Hong Kong-listed H shares are ... Morgan Stanley and RBS are joint bookrunners on ... RBS bought those shares in 2005 for £900m, ... Earlier, Wang Zhaowen, a spokesman at Bank of ... Any proceeds from a sale would help the...
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Two third of investors expect to reach private equity allocations
Fears over fundraising and commitment defaults look set ... A survey of 107 investors by secondaries firm ... The study showed 28% of North American investors ... In 2004 Coller conducted the same survey and ... Jeremy Coller, founder of Coller Capital, said private ... In the boom period before last summer's credit...
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Baring to shut two hedge funds
Baring Asset Management is planning to close two ... The 246-year old company, which first entered emerging ... Each fund was too small to justify its ... About $13.6bn of the $40.8bn investors pulled from ... Japanese and emerging market equities have proved unprofitable...
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Top-performing Swiss hedge fund drops 95%
One of last year's best-performing hedge funds has ... Switzerland's 788 China fund has recorded a loss ... Investors said that, apart from those that short-sold ... The loss of 94.52% for the year to ... The fund's monthly losses were 36% in August, ... Its marketing literature, on its website, says the...
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Goldman faces loss of $2bn for quarter
Goldman Sachs, known for avoiding many of the ... The loss, equal to about $5 a share, ... Though analysts and investors already were bracing for ... On a day when financial stocks fell sharply, ... Beyond the damage caused by day-to-day market turmoil, ... One area that is thought to have given...
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Och-Ziff adds four to Asia real estate team
Och-Ziff, the US hedge fund manager that has ... Och-Ziff Asia Real Estate has appointed four senior ... Zain Fancy, Roy Kwok, Bharat Khanna and Anand ... The four all covered similar regions at Morgan ... Och-Ziff Asia Real Estate will make investments in ... Dan Och, chairman and chief executive of Och-Ziff...
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