All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Asset Management & Private Banking

1. Demographics are rapidly changing around the world, including China.2. The pension issue is made more acute as people age and represent a larger percentage of the population.3. Asset allocation is an important element of retirement planning.4. The Chinese "401 (k) equivalent" - enterprise annuities...

For  some  time  now  - especially  since  September 06 when  Amaranth collapsed - the  call  for  hedge  fund  regulation  has  increased.  The  call  has  been  across  international  frontiers ...

1. Additional hedge fund regulation is likely.2. Federal regulation is favored by some in lieu of different states each doing their own thing.3. Billions of pension dollars going into alternatives has regulators worried.

Mergers  and  acquisitions  create  or  lose  value  depending  on  how  they  are  structured and  financed. The  Tata  Steel  takeover  of  Corus  is  apparently  creating  market  ripples ...

As  the  quantum of  investments  deployed  through  the  hedge  fund  model  has  grown,  so  have  the  calls  for  regulation  of  this  important  emerging  industry.This  analysis ...

Power Financial Corporation, beat out Britain's Amvescap Plc and Europe's Unicredito Italiano to purchase Putnam for $3.9 billion, after Marsh put Putnam Investments up for sale in September 2006, to reduce its debts. The deal will also give Power Financial Corporation a 25% stake in Thomas H. Lee Partners,...

Key Implications:Merrill Lynch's purchase of First Republic Bank gives them access to clients with an average net worth of $20 million, provides an opportunity to expand and cross-sell their products and services, profit from fees for services, and allows Merrill to continue its strategy of focusing...

The  referred  research  by  Deloitte  speaks  of  the  maturing  of  the  hedge  fund  industry  and   why  high returns  will  be  difficult  for  this  "middle  aged"  industry....

Collateralized  Debt Obligations  or  CDO's  are  the  most  common  way  in  which  credit  derivatives  are  packaged, sliced  and  sold  to  investors and  investment  institutions.These  instruments ...

Global  financial  markets  are  seeing  an  increasing amount  of  activity  with  hedge  funds  and  private  equity  accounting  for  increasingly  substantial  amounts  of  trading.There ...