Temple Associates

Goldman Sachs explores investment adviser sale in retreat from mass market Careful due diligence can mitigate risks associated with Acquisit...

Anath Capital acquires Stratton Street  and will integrate the credit fund manager's $500 Mio AuM with its Garraway Capital s...

All very well, consolidation, getting critical mass etc - but is 3% of AuM not a bit rich for a business with wafer-thin (and still trending...

There could be no greater discrepancy between the business model of these two parties. Apart from the fact that Fo...

There is lots of talk about the need to get bigger in the Financial Services Industry. But there are plenty of potholes on the route to ...

News that Unicredit finally has extricated itself from its exposure in the Ukraine serves as a reminder that 'Strategic Transactions...

H edge fund firms are difficult to sell/buy as they depend - in general - too much on the style of a few individuals running the show. Qui...

The sudden exit of another Bank CEO - now at Barclays Bank - is a stark reminder that managing a ...

Talk of bailing-in holders of certain bonds demonstrates that investors and depositors in European Banks are well-advised to be ultra cautio...

All managers involved in employee compensation will be well advised to study the implications of this protracted legal case (see here  and h...

Now it is Legg Mason's turn to eat humble pie and write off a major junk of its investment in Permal , the hedge fund group. No blame s...

It was clear to me from the outset that the decision by Man Group to acquire the hedge fund GLG was more out of desperation (to diversity, ...

Rumors have it that Bank Austria may lose nearly 80 pct of the more than $US 2.2 billion that it paid for Kazakhstan's ATF bank in 2007...

Jobsworth: "a person who uses their job description in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who seemingly delights in acting in an obst...

With better advice Swiss-Lif e could have saved itself a lot of money and even more bad publicity. The chances that main-stream investment ...

This tale of woe again demonstrates that relying on number crunching accountants and fee-hungry deal brokers is the wrong approach to acquis...

Hewlett-Packard could easily become Exhibit Number One for any future case studies about the dangers and pitfalls of hastily concocted acq...

This headline made me look up the details of the original court case  in which a large group of employees in the former Dresdner Kleinwort ...

You may well be a big boy many a JP Morgan Shareholder may think. But the revelation that the deal may have possibly cost JP Morgan $5 to ...

A Fiat Law imposed on banks in Hungary by the 'democratic' Orban regime could cost them nearly Euro 1 billion. This is due to the se...