Category: Investment Management

Private equity


Private equity is a particular form of asset that deals with equity securities of operating enterprises, which do not come under the list of companies traded publicly on stock exchanges.

Private equity adds to the operational competency of business organizations. It encourages private investment in business ventures. With private equity, it becomes easier for business organizations to focus on developing new products. Private equity also helps in designing new business strategies.

Portfolio Management


Portfolio management is a technique of matching the components of one’s investment mix with predetermined financial goals. This includes selecting the most suitable investment options after assessing their performance in the past and estimating their growth in future. A portfolio is held as part of an individual’s investment strategy of diversification, whereby varied assets are owned, so as to reduce investment risk.

The process of portfolio management involves conducting a SWOT analysis to decide:

Shrewd Bank Analyst Sued by Interesting Florida “Group”


22 October 2010. Examples such as these easily draw one to the conclusion that banks are often run as little more than a series of banana republics, and together, the banking elites are a force whose power may put your run of the mill Caudillos to shame. Like all strongmen, bank chairmen are equally thin-skinned, combative and ready to eliminate whomever they believe threatens their reputation or their notions of “honour”. And with those institutions called courts, who needs Death Squads?

Three Reasons Financial Services Innovation is Moving to Emerging Markets


19 August 2010.

Let me go out on a limb and make a prediction; innovation in financial services will increasingly move to emerging markets as the ‘developed’ world continues to grapple with Too Big To Fail banks that need to maintain the payment of large amounts of profit to their ‘talent’ (a third or a half of profits being ‘invested’ this way is not uncommon), in markets that are stagnant or declining.