Two Model Schedule of Wto Commitments for Investment Banking, Trading, and Asset Management: Explanatory Memorandum

CFA Digest ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Emory

Author(s):  
David P. Stowell ◽  
Evan Meagher

Gary Parr, deputy chairman of Lazard Freres & Co. and Kellogg class of 1980, could not believe his ears. “You can't mean that,” he said, reacting to the lowered bid given by Doug Braunstein, JP Morgan head of investment banking, for Parr's client, legendary investment bank Bear Stearns. Less than eighteen months after trading at an all-time high of $172.61 a share, Bear now had little choice but to accept Morgan's humiliating $2-per-share, Federal Reserve-sanctioned bailout offer. “I'll have to get back to you.” Hanging up the phone, Parr leaned back and gave an exhausted sigh. Rumors had swirled around Bear ever since two of its hedge funds imploded as a result of the subprime housing crisis, but time and again, the scrappy Bear appeared to have weathered the storm. Parr's efforts to find a capital infusion for the bank had resulted in lengthy discussions and marathon due diligence sessions, but one after another, potential investors had backed away, scared off in part by Bear's sizable mortgage holdings at a time when every bank on Wall Street was reducing its positions and taking massive write-downs in the asset class. In the past week, those rumors had reached a fever pitch, with financial analysts openly questioning Bear's ability to continue operations and its clients running for the exits. Now Sunday afternoon, it had already been a long weekend, and it would almost certainly be a long night, as the Fed-backed bailout of Bear would require onerous negotiations before Monday's market open. By morning, the eighty-five-year-old investment bank, which had survived the Great Depression, the savings and loan crisis, and the dot-com implosion, would cease to exist as an independent firm. Pausing briefly before calling CEO Alan Schwartz and the rest of Bear's board, Parr allowed himself a moment of reflection. How had it all happened?An analysis of the fall of Bear Stearns facilitates an understanding of the difficulties affecting the entire investment banking industry: high leverage, overreliance on short-term financing, excessive risk taking on proprietary trading and asset management desks, and myopic senior management all contributed to the massive losses and loss of confidence. The impact on the global economy was of epic proportions.


2013 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janis Berzins ◽  
Crocker H. Liu ◽  
Charles Trzcinka

Author(s):  
Dariusz Wójcik ◽  
Theodor F. Cojoianu

The chapter summarizes observations made in the preceding chapters, and complements them from a geographical perspective, putting developments in the eight countries and eleven financial centres covered in the book in a global context. It starts by looking at the elite of the financial sector, comparing the world’s top centres of investment banking and asset management. Next, it broadens its focus by reviewing trends and patterns of employment in the financial and business services sector as a whole. The following section offers a glimpse of offshore finance and its development since the crisis. In addition, it provides an overview and comparison of developments in fintech and their potential impact on the global map of financial centres. The concluding section considers new geographical ways of conceptualizing relationships among financial centres, financial and business services, and offshore finance, and ends with suggestions for future research.


2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 1053-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Sweeney

AbstractA defining feature of financialisation has been the transformation of banking, especially the expansion of investment banking. This article argues that the financialisation literature has, to date, failed to adequately explain this transformation. Neither disintermediation processes on the one hand, nor liberalisation of financial service activities on the other hand can explain the increase in scale and scope of the sector. The growth in investment banking activities should instead be seen in terms of the overall expansion of financial markets. In particular, demographic pressures and neoliberal restructuring have led to the growth of capital markets and modern asset management. The rise of capital markets and asset management, and the associated growth of money and derivatives markets have, in turn, put pressures on the banking system for expanded investment services, which it has met. Understanding financialisation as a structural change implies limits on how much economies can be ‘de-financialised’.


Author(s):  
Janis Berzins ◽  
Crocker H. Liu ◽  
Charles Trzcinka

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (12) ◽  
pp. 1276-1285
Author(s):  
Shibu John A

Enterprise asset management (EAM) systems are used by asset owners and/or operators to manage the maintenance of their physical assets. These assets, including equipment, facilities, vehicles, and infrastructure, need maintenance to sustain their operations. An EAM system provides the means to have less unplanned downtime and extended asset longevity, which offers clear business benefits that improve the profit and loss statement and balance sheet. Particularly for capital-intensive industries, like drilling and exploration, the failure of on-time delivery of critical equipment or processes is disruptive and costs nonproductive time and customer satisfaction. Organizations understand these issues and employ an appropriate asset management system to engineer their asset maintenance and management. An EAM system is needed to manage the people, assets/equipment, and processes. EAMs are used to plan, optimize, execute, and track the needed maintenance activities with associated priorities, skills, materials, tools, and information. Similarly, nondestructive testing (NDT) is used as a tool for integrity assessment of assets in drilling and exploration. The main advantage of using NDT is that the item’s intended use or serviceability is not affected. The selection of a specific technique should be based on knowledge and skills that include design, material processing, and material evaluation. Validating the purpose of this paper, we emphasize the importance of optimizing the asset utilization and serviceability to enhance overall efficiency by integrating EAM software that manages assets, the operation management system (OMS) controlling the processes, and asset inspection management systems (AIMSs).


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (02) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Syarief Gerald Prasetya

 Company's goal is to maximize the value of the company. Value of the company is very important for the company because the company maximize the value it will maximize the welfare of shareholders. Efforts that can be done to maximize the value of the company in one of the company through asset management. Asset management companies is an activity which is very important because the management is based on the size of the success of the company during a certain period can be known. Asset management is a potential that is owned by organizations or individuals to achieve the vision, mission and goals, or particular. However, in maximizing the value of a company diisyaratkan a growth company that is a positive development of the company that occurred in a period of timeThe aim of this research is to analyse relevantly of assets management and growth of company, is have influence and relation, or not with value of company. If in research process found by inexistence of relation and influence from assets management and growth of company, so will searching that problem and searching the othe factors perhaps existence relation and influence to value of companiesThe research shows that in PT. Tambang Batubara Bukit Asam Tbk, influential assets management according to significant towards value of companies, that is with level significant as big as 0,012. While in PT. United Tractors Tbk, assets management not influential according to significant towards value of companies, that is with level significant as big as 0,576. In PT. Tambang Batubara Bukit Asam Tbk, influential growth of company according to significant towards value of companies, that is with level significant as big as 0,015. While in PT. United Tractors Tbk, growt of company not influential according to significant towards value of companies, that is with level significant as big as 0,870Result of evaluation in this research is that value of companies do not only be influenced by factor of assets management and growth of company, but there is other factor which can influence such as profitability factor and and efficiency costKey word: management assets, growth of company, value of company


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