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Multiconvergence: Orix buys Robeco for distribution and global brand

I am finishing a week of CEO discussions in Europe and, before flying back to NY, Orix just announced the acquisition of 90.01% of Robeco equity from Rabobank for about two billion Euros (240 billion yen) to expand the global … Continue reading

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Multi-Convergence: HK PE firm GCS buys Dexia Asset Management

That was fast. Less than ten days after entering exclusive acquisition talks with Dexia, HK-based private equity firm GCS Capital is buying the asset management arm from the Dexia group, a case of #East2West and #Multi-Convergence. The price was set … Continue reading

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Latin America in Asset Management – Quantifying the Opportunities for Brazil and the region

As I wrote in a recent M&A update on Brazil/LatAm, Brazil takes the lead: Net cash flows, M&A, Joint Ventures and Latin America Opportunities, Latin America as a region is gaining momentum for the global asset management industry. Specifically, we … Continue reading

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Brazil takes the lead: Net cash flows, M&A, Joint Ventures and Latin America Opportunities

One of the central themes in my latest book, State of the Asset Management Industry – Latin America, is around greater and more direct links between fast-growth emerging economies and regions, especially Asia and Latin America. More specifically Brazil as a leader … Continue reading

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Case study: The end of one Deutsche Guggenheim deal, the beginning of another

It all started in 1997… that’s when Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation opened “Deutsche Guggenheim” in Berlin, to feature modern and contemporary art. Solomon Robert, of course, one of Meyer Guggenheim’s ten children, founded the foundation in 1937 … Continue reading

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