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As confidence in the economy and financial markets improves, the tempo of corporate transactions is picking up. Recently, information technology consulting firms Affiliated Computer Services and Perot Systems received buyout offers for $6.7 billion and $3.9 billion respectively.

The pace of initial public offerings is increasing as well. Companies have raised more than $11 billion through IPOs since the turn of the month. Spanish bank Grupo Santander sold a 16% stake in Banco Santander Brasil to raise a whopping $8 billion. Actuarial data provider Verisk Analytics raised $1.9 billion through an IPO.  

Large financial services firms are taking advantage of robust capital markets and busily shedding their asset management businesses.  

Barclays kicked off this trend selling Barclays Global Investors to BlackRock for $13.5 billion in June.  

In the third quarter, Bank of America sold most of Columbia Management for $1 billion. Citigroup sold its interest in Nikko Asset Management and Lincoln National sold Delaware Investments.  

In Europe, the old Julius Baer separated its asset management business to form GAM Holdings.  

Additional transactions are in the pipeline with Morgan Stanley reportedly looking to jettison Van Kampen Fund. 

So, are diversified financial institutions right in selling asset management businesses? 

A rising stock market coupled with surging capital market activity is often good for asset management businesses. While certain diversified financial firms have been compelled to sell such businesses due to losses in other lines, others have cited the need to focus on strengths.    Read more...

Managing financial assets is something that is popular to many individuals thinking of their future.  There are several financial management firms that take the responsibility of managing a person or company’s worth to try and make the most with the money.  Financial asset management is a field of work that consists of usually finance majors that are qualified to work with investments.  The longer the consultant/broker is with the same client or company the stronger the relationship becomes.   There are several companies that work in the field of financial asset management such as Wells Fargo and JP Morgan.  In addition, many banks have an area that works with managing financial assets for their customers. 

There are several types of funds that the financial asset managers work with.  Depending on their customer’s needs they put money into more high risk funds or they stick to lower risk funds.  The level of the risk they are assuming can of course be incorrect but the risk levels are based on such items as size of the company and have in the past been fairly correct.  Financial asset management is used in a large way for retirement purposes.  Due to this fact, the consultant with the management firm will consider the number of years until expected retirement and the age of the person to help find their place in the market.  If the person is in their 20’s the consultant will most likely want to put their funds into a higher risk fund.  This way even if the account decreases in money it has many years to recover itself and possibly make a great deal for the person.  Read more...