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WORLD’S BEST PROJECT & INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE PROVIDERS 2012
Global Finance names the World’s Best Project & Infrastructure Finance Providers 2012 NEW YORK, July 18, 2012 Global Finance magazine...
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Global Finance Advertisers 1987: Where Are They Now?
THE SANDS OF TIME By Valentina Pasquali A look at how the fates have dealt with those firms that advertised in the October 1987 inaugural issue of Global Finance. AT&T was bought by SBC Communications Are your overseas ...
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Introduction: A Quarter-Century Of Change
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE... By Laurence Neville There is a famous quote by British novelist LP Hartley that goes, "The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there." If this is so, then 1987—when Global Finance was launched—is ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Derivatives
TOOLS FOR MANAGING RISK, OR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? By Gordon Platt As companies looked to hedge their risks, a new asset class, derivatives, was born in the 1980s. But over the years a number of substantial losses ...
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Global Investing
UNDERMINING THE CULT OF EQUITY By Jonathan Gregson As alternative investments become mainstream and returns diminish, the traditional bias toward equity investment is being challenged like never before. Even before globalization became a major theme, big investors had ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Top 25 Lists: 25 Events That Rocked The World
REVOLUTION By Laurence Neville The scale of the crisis that has engulfed much of the world since 2008, which—like a virus—has mutated from a financial sector crisis to an economic crisis to a sovereign debt crisis, is so great ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Words Of Wisdom: Charles Beazley, Nikko Asset Management
GRAVITATIONAL PULL By Michael Shari A British veteran of Merrill Lynch, Charles Beazley became chairman and CEO of Nikko Asset Management, which is majority owned by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust, in March. Headquartered in Tokyo, Nikko AM manages $158 billion ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Words Of Wisdom: Yoshio Nakamura, Keidanren
BREAKING BARRIERS By Michael Shari Yoshio Nakamura is the director general of Nippon Keidanren, the Japan Industry Federation—the main voice representing large industry in the country. Global Finance: What developments have most shaped Japan’s economy over the past ...
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Words Of Wisdom: Zhang Jianguo, China Construction Bank
A Time Of Profound Change By Thomas Clouse Zhang Jianguo is president and chief executive of China Construction Bank (CCB) . Global Finance: How will China´s financial system change as interest rates liberalize, capital markets develop, and ...
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Awards: World’s Best Subcustodians 2012
NEW HORIZONS By Gordon Platt With every new regulation that hits global trust and custody banks, a new service is born for subcustodians. Keeping up is expensive and challenging, but nonetheless it is a good time to be ...
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Cover: Will Japan Regain Its Greatness?
WILL JAPAN REGAIN ITS GREATNESS? By Michael Shari Business is trying to resurrect Asia's economic miracle a year and a half after the Tohoku tragedy. Tokyo is enjoying a long-deserved renaissance. Young professionals are converging from all ...
Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Summer Revival?
The summer has been alive with global central bank activityfrom lower interest rates to new and more creative monetary measures...