- Bank fund management challenges and opportunities.
Abstract With financial deregulation gaining momentum in the Asia Pacific countries, local banks in small economies need to withstand erosion of business from foreign competitors. Banks, in order to increase profits, compete with local as well as foreign insurance and investment companies by offering mutual fund products. To remain competitive, ......
- Announcement 2006-6
Japan Investment Bank Memorandum of Understanding The following is a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") entered into on December 27, 2005, by the Competent Authorities of the United States and Japan, regarding the term "investment bank" in the U.S.-Japan income tax treaty. The text of the MOU is ......
- Are banks making it in the fund business? A
conversation with Michael Lipper.
This much is certain: bank-managed mutual funds are on a growth track. From 1992 through the middle of 1997, the assets of proprietary bank funds grew from $154 billion to $429 billion, as bank-managed funds increased their share of total fund assets from just under 10% to almost 12%. At ......
- Age of universal banking
After over two years of calls for universal banking in Nigeria, the regulatory authorities have finally given their approval. This means that banks will no longer have to specialise either as merchant (or wholesale) banks or commercial banks. Tony Emumelu, managing director of Standard Trust Bank Ltd says: "Universal banking ......
- Best Banks 2000: Best global banks
HEADNOTE As globalization continues, the financial services industry is consolidating, and a group of premier institutions is emerging with the scale, the technology and the products required to meet the needs of customers anywhere at anytime. In the new world of global banking, customer service is still the key to ......
- Firm hitting high notes as rain pours on capitalmarkets.
JOSS Realty Partners just signed a renewal and expansion at 229 West 28th Street with The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, the company that controls and manages the licensing rights for the famous Broadway duo's music and shows. The company, which already occupied the building's roughly 12,500 square tenth floor, took ......
- KeyCorp's proprietary
strategy.
It sells its mutual funds to management and employees first How many bankers have put all their personal assets in their bank's proprietary funds? asks W. Christopher Maxwell, CEO of KeyCorp's proprietary mutual funds business. He knows of one--himself. Like the tobacco company CEO who smokes his company's cigarettes, his ......