Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Frederick Lane, vice chairman of investment banking at Raymond James Financial Inc., talks with Bloombergs Betty Liu about recent U.S. merger and acquisition trends. Lane, speaking from Boston, says strategic acquisitions will drive activity in 2010. (Source: Bloomberg) Duration : 0:3:12
Million-dollar commissions for investment bankers harmed the economy and laid the groundwork for the global financial crisis,according to Geraint Anderson. Anderson was an investment banker in London for 12 years,having worked for both Commerzbank as well as the Dresden-based Kleinwort before it was acquired by Commerzbank.For Anderson and his colleagues,bonuses worth more than their set [...]
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Yashwant Bajaj, funding partner and fund manager at Hachiman Capital Management, talks with Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin about his investment strategy for Japanese stocks. Bajaj, speaking from Tokyo, also discusses the outlook for the global economy, and the impact of the yen’s appreciation on Japanese exports. (Source: Bloomberg) Duration : 0:5:2
Wall St. Training Self-Study Instructor, Hamilton Lin, CFA reviews the basic valuation methodologies utilized by investment bankers and professionals to value companies, ranging from trading comps to deal comps to DCF to break-up analysis and other metrics. For more information of the video courses previewed here, go to: http://www.wstselfstudy.com/modules.html Over 80 hours of online, interactive [...]
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Barclays Plc President Robert Diamond talks about the bank’s full-year earnings and his decision along with Chief Executive Officer John Varley to decline to take a bonus for a second year. The U.K.s second-largest bank said profit more than doubled to 9.39 billion pounds ($14.8 billion) lifted by investment banking and [...]