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Managing Director
Structured Finance International, LLC ![]()
John Salomone is the Founder and Managing Director of Structured Finance International, Florida based boutique investment and merchant bank, specializing in all forms of asset and corporate finance, including equipment finance, trade and receivable finance, project finance, vendor finance and realestate...
Principal
Heritage Capital Group, Inc. ![]()
Asok Chaudhuri, PhD, is a Principal at Heritage Capital Group, a financial services firm offering investment banking & strategy consulting on a global basis. Prior, he worked for 26 years at CSX (largest railroad in Eastern US): parent, rail, intermodal, shipping, global ports, barge, trucking, and...
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Task Force must dump a conflict ridden rating agency compensation system
August 28, 2009
Bipartisan Policy Center Announces New Credit Rating Agency Task Force | news.corporate.findlaw.com
The task force should elicit not only comments from industry sources -- who after all have deep vested interests -- but independent experts with no axe to grind who argue that the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) precedent can be adapted to devise a new conflict free system of payment for...
There is less than meets the eye in this hoopla about SWFs!
August 18, 2009
New sovereign funds to emerge as crisis eases | uk.reuters.com
Doubling of money managed by SWF in ten years is just 7 per cent more pa on average and that is both from return on investment and additional funds. So how rapid is it really and how good a return is it? In both cases, not very. Are SWFs really going to invest in risky assets on those assumptionsof...
Growth of sovereign wealth funds limited by the financial crisis
August 10, 2009
New sovereign funds to emerge as crisis eases | uk.reuters.com
SummaryYes there will be more funds allocated to long term investments for returns but as countries incur high fiscal deficits and look to fund them through public debt - both domestic and potentially foreign, there may be some sovereign funds less able to make such allocations.
Tough Sledding will Continue for Japanese Consumer Electronics Firms
September 11, 2008
Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, Toshiba, JVC, Kenwood, and NEC are all venerable consumer electronics brands, but unless there are dramatic shake-ups in the way they manage their businesses, their glory days may be forever gone. Competition from Korean companies like Samsung and LG and a myriad ofcompetitors...
August 18, 2008
Sovereign Wealth Fund Assets Could Triple by 2013 | www.bloomberg.com
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) have a lot of money. So they can buy advice. What they do with it is another matter. Investing in Blackstone was investing in a reputable firm at a bad time. So short term the investment looks bad. Long term is the the time horizon of SWF and in the longer term itmay...