Financial & Business Services News by GLG Council Members

Rewriting the Swiss Private Banking Model

September 20, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:Swiss Private Banks Go Down Market as Crisis Destroys Wealth | www.bloomberg.com

The Swiss Private Banking industry must accept the changed business landscape and look at its whole business model in the light of the changed circumstances, not simply try to attract a new client base to their old model.

Bank of Ireland's Capital Buffer Sufficient to Withstand Forecasted Bad Debts

September 19, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:Bank Of Ireland Confident on Capital | www.nytimes.com

Bank of Ireland has provided evidence that the composition of their loans to be transferred to NAMA is much better than the averages for all the affected banks. Their capital will not be impacted more severly than originally estimated due to the NAMA discounts and they are right to be confident that the NAMA discounts can be absorbed without recourse to external capital raising. They will however seek to raise capital before the end of 2009 in order to reduce the Government's stake in the bank.

What is making the gold price rise - Part 1 - Investment Demand

September 18, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:Gold 2008 and the exciting 2009 | news.goldseek.com

Investment demand for gold is one of several key facets to the rising gold price. It has been perhaps the key gold price driver to the rise in the gold price over the last three years, prompting a review of gold's importance in many portfolios. Why?

Daniel LintzPresident & Chief Executive OfficerSafe Harbour Japan K.K.

Aiful Debt Moratorium Spells Trouble for Takefuji, Promise

September 18, 2009

Analysis of:Aiful To Ask For Debt Moratorium; Shares Drop 27% | www.nni.nikkei.co.jp

Shares of ailing consumer finance company Aiful Corp. (8515) fell 27% Friday following announcement of plans to seek a delay in repayment of nearly $3 billion in loans. Unsympathetic comments by Japan's Minister for Postal and Financial Services Hon. Shizuka Kamei served further rattle the market, sending many foreign investors running for the door. Market fear is likely to drive down share prices and drive up the cost of capital for major consumer lenders Takefuji and Promise .

Implications of Swiss Private Banks go downmarket

September 18, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:Swiss Private Banks Go Down Market as Crisis Destroys Wealth | www.bloomberg.com

Swiss Private Banks attracting new clients who are less affluent than their traditional wealthy clients will mean nothing new. Even before crisis requirement for minimum investment was quite flexible. Now when flow of new money changed banks brought prior practice to public.

Making the extra effort.

September 17, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:Investing in a down market | www.triplepundit.com

1. Identify2. Strategy3. Execute Everything is in the relationship to your market, your distribution and your distributions client base. It is critical to be well prepared, research the people, places, companies you approach. Success only comes through giving and can only sustain through giving. We need to out-give our distribution channel in the sense of direct market penetration and development. In our analysis we touch on all of these issues and their necessity to succeed in a market.

Mark MariottiChief Executive OfficerFuture Management Holdings Inc

Thanks, but no thanks

September 17, 2009

Analysis of:Lending in Europe continues to shrink | www.ft.com

Banks across Europe have insisted in recent months any decline in lending is due to a falloff in demand, not supply. Supply is not useful if the line or rate does not make any sense.

The emerging trends in branding and corporate responsibility.

September 17, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:The emerging trends in branding and corporate responsibility. | scheinerinc.typepad.com

We are now in a “New World” where many rules have changed. We have loss of credibility of the corporations and institutions that speak to us, as well as an increased skepticism in messaging that speaks to an employee, consumer, or customer. We no longer trust an ambiguous graphic treatment or brand claim made by a product or service; instead we now turn to “word of mouth” opinion. Social media channels such as Twitter have redefined and accelerated the way brands and companies are perceived.

Nathaniel FinkinManaging Partner and PrincipalFinkin Capital Advisors

Higher defaults in a CRE book don't necessarily translate to more losses

September 16, 2009

Analysis of:Wells Fargo, Fifth Third Add to Predictions of Higher Defaults | www.bloomberg.com

One of the most compelling contrasts between the 2007-08 (and still ongoing) meltdown in the residential housing market, vs. the forecast bubble-burst in commercial real estate for 2009-10, is the methodology banks and lenders use to forecast losses.  This contrast will definitely lend itself to more transparency and clarity with this current lending crisis vs. the previous residential and consumer meltdown. 

The rules of the game must change for Banks

September 16, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:Lending in Europe continues to shrink | www.ft.com

Banks are crucial to the proper functioning of a capitalist economy and must therefore be treated differently to other businesses. If a bank is too big to fall it must surrender some of its freedom to operate in the free-market and expose it self to much more stringent regulatory control and government interference (unfortunately)....otherwise the whole system can fall again!

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