Hints and tips:
...Bain consulting alum Jeff Zients is stepping down as chief Covid-19 adviser to US president Joe Biden. He will be replaced by public health expert Ashish Jha....
...A person familiar with Deutsche’s internal discussions argued that the lender was trusting in Chinese walls between Cerberus’s consulting business and its investment activities....
...Richard W Gates III’s rise was tethered to that of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s one-time campaign manager. Now his fall may come in lockstep too....
...For decades, the consumer goods industry has consolidated haphazardly, says Dan Wald of Boston Consulting Group....
...Banks are on track this year to record their lowest revenues from FICC since 2005, according to Boston Consulting Group....
...The amount of money invested globally by asset managers has for the first time surpassed the highs before the 2007-08 crisis, according to Boston Consulting Group, the management consultants.”...
...A third of all mobiles are smartphones, second only to Singapore at just over 50 per cent, according to TomiAhonen Consulting....
...Thus Basel III contains charges for CVA risk....
...The study by the Boston Consulting Group looked at the efforts of 145 large banks worldwide to comply with that ratio and found they need to raise €354bn in capital on top of what they had at the end of...
...“I would not be surprised that, in the same way that the last decade was one of debt, we now move into an era of equity,” says PA Consulting’s Mr Thomas....
...These can seem far better value, and provide a threat to some of the bigger consulting firms, he says....
...She now heads the consulting company, SlipStream Strategy, from her office at home....
...Many want help clearing the fog of new regulation, such as the US’s Dodd-Frank Act, the European Union’s Solvency II, and Basel III....
...iii) Luxury brands can soon become tarnished....
...For too long it has operated as an exclusive club, consulting only a handful of large cross-border banks....
...John Poole, director at Poole Consulting, says: “Ireland’s decision to make it easy to re-domicile is to be welcomed, but there are so many other uncertainties affecting the regulation of alternative products...
...So, in fact, investors are consulting professionals and consuming profession advice — they’re just not paying for it directly....
...ETFs set up as Ucits III products can use swaps to track indices, which plays to the derivatives expertise and trading capability of investment banks....
...Murat Ünal, chief executive of Funds@Work, an asset management consulting firm, says: “You certainly need people who have a very good understanding of relevant investor groups, but who are at the same time...
...Perhaps US investors are less exposed to these developments than Europeans, who have been able to invest in various absolute return funds for several years, thanks to Ucits III....
...The ETC structure was developed in Europe to provide investors with access to single commodities, which is not possible under the Ucits III regulations that govern most European ETFs....
...Its latest fund, Barclays Private Equity European Fund III, which closed in September 2007, has commitments of €2.4bn. Barclays group has put up €650m....
...“The active return fund offers daily liquidity, a track record and it provides oversight through the Ucits III registration.”...
...Jim Connor, a partner at Morse, a consulting company, expects calls for greater transparency, a push to mitigate counterparty risk, perhaps through moving some over-the-counter derivative trading onto an...
...Amit Kara, UBS 1) Minority government and market fear – a hung parliament will almost certainly lift the risk premia of UK inc....
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