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...Isio competes with larger pensions advisory practices such as Aon, Mercer and Willis Towers Watson....
...Desperate times With less M&A fees to glean, bankers are getting creative to keep the cash coming in by offering more specialist advice, DD’s Sujeet Indap writes in The Lex Newsletter....
...As DD’s Antoine Gara and Sujeet Indap report in this feature, the key to Cerberus’ huge windfall is a set of real estate specialist investors....
...Its lending businesses focus on specialist forms of financing that command higher interest rates because they do not trade on liquid markets and require expertise to underwrite....
...Colony will pay $325m to buy Digital Bridge, which manages a portfolio of 342,000 mobile phone towers and 39 data centres, and which already has a $4bn joint venture with Mr Barrack’s company....
...The lease was signed by a company named BSREP III Nero LLC, a possible allusion to the emperor who was blamed for the burning of Rome....
...Apollo was advised by Willis Towers Watson and Libero Ventures. Aspen was advised by Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan....
...Michael Larson is one of the most powerful men in US wealth management you have never heard of....
...Gaobo Pang also recently joined Northern Trust’s DC team as senior behavioural finance specialist. Mr Pang previously worked for Towers Watson and the World Bank....
...It can cost $10m to build a network of microwave towers to beam data across the Appalachian mountains, says a consultant....
...Just ask Wes Edens about mobile phone towers....
...The charge has been led by specialist property funds, such as Patron Capital, which have built up sprawling portfolios in the past six years....
...● Jeremy Spira is joining Towers Watson’s Thinking Ahead group, moving from Mercer, a rival investment consultancy....
...Apollo also boosted its loan business by acquiring Stone Tower Capital, a US credit group with $17bn assets under management....
...Global consultants Mercer and Towers Watson both have offices in China....
...Bonds tower over equities in sheer volume terms: the McKinsey Global Institute estimated a few years back that the global bond market was about $51 trillion, compared with $32 trillion in global equity markets...
...And several structured credit specialists forced to suspend or close funds are pitching new vehicles designed to profit by buying up assets on the cheap....
...Teletime News, a specialist website and magazine, quoted one of those involved as saying the situation was similar to that of a mobile telephone company wanting to build a transmission tower in one of Rio...
...Bunker mentality Back at the parliament, security chiefs are tendering a crisis-management contract to keep the Tower of Babel talking in the event of terrorist attack....
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