It includes selling off its less important businesses and paring back its investment arm.
Barclays' biggest shareholder is Middle Eastern, while Temasek, Singapore's investment arm, owns a fifth of StanChart.
To raise cash, Groves sold a 12% stake in May to Temasek, the Singapore government's investment arm.
To that end, Liverpool Vision (the council's inward investment arm) has set up a dedicated office in Shanghai.
Barclays Capital, the bank's investment arm, will head the latest attempt to find a new buyer for the club.
To raise cash for his recent acquisitions, Groves sold a 12% stake in May to Temasek, the Singapore government's investment arm.
Dr Mahathir's preferred option now appears to be to order Khazanah, the government's investment arm, which he chairs, to bail out Time.
Even more riling for Thailand's more nationalistic citizens is that the telecommunications giant was sold to Temasek Holdings , the state-owned investment arm of Singapore.
The Chengs owns other hotels through a privately held investment arm.
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Mr Huang had headed Gitic, the investment arm of Guangdong province.
She and her team also invested in small startups, including others that develop educational technology, through a stealth investment arm of her philanthropic firm, Emerson Collective.
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Investors in the share offering included CIC International, Boyu Capital and CITIC Capital, as well as CDB Capital, the equity investment arm of China Development Bank.
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media.
But the liability is far less than speculated in the market, with rumors circulating that the group's investment arm was nursing a much larger black hole in its finances.
"Rustom is one of the top money managers that we've worked with, " says William Green, an executive vice president of Northern Trust Global Advisors, the investment arm of Northern Trust.
People inside and outside the company seem gingerly accepting of Pacific Century, a venture of the city of Beijing's investment arm and a closely held Beijing auto parts company called Tempo Group.
The global investment arm of the Government Pension Fund, as the oil fund is formally named, is the biggest investor in shares across Europe, so its holdings took a knock during the financial crisis.
This does not always work: the sale of Aventura, the state holiday-resorts company, was cancelled this year because the union investment arm that was supposed to buy it failed to come up with the cash.
One of my roles at Innosight as a matter of fact is to oversee our investment arm, where we provide early-stage investment in companies that have the potential to transform existing markets and create new ones.
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Mr Jenkins has previously said that the bank will move to stop activities that have hurt its reputation, but has also said that there would be no break up of operations by selling off the bank's investment arm.
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The company said the results were a big turnaround from the heavy losses reported in the final quarter of 2001, which were mainly due to a 1.59bn francs loss by the group's investment arm, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB).
But he symbolizes its close ties with Russia and the relationship sheds light on the intensely private world of Barclays' investment arm at a time when such banks -- which also manage consumer savings -- are under pressure to be more transparent.
But he said he was against one of the key issues the ICB is examining - that of splitting a bank's retail operations from its investment arm - saying that a lot of the banking sector's problems were caused by simple bad investment decisions.
The combination offer has plenty of backers: the Bank of China, Warburg Dillon Read, HSBC, the powerful family of Li Ka-shing and Hong Kong public sentiment (which is wary of the SingTel deal because 76% of that company is owned by the Singapore government's investment arm).
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Media reports from Singapore now say that members of Thaksin's family are saying they made a mistake in a filing to Thai stock regulators prior to their sale of their entire holding in Shin Corp to Temasek Holdings , the investment arm of the Singaporean government.
That firm is spinning off its investment-management arm, Phoenix Investment Partners, which it said Thursday would be called Virtus Investment after the separation.
The head of RBS's investment banking arm since 2008, John Hourican, is also expected to step down.
HSBC's attempt to breathe life into its investment banking arm had failed, and things still haven't picked up.
Deutsche had treated Dresdner high-handedly by insisting that the smaller partner's investment banking arm should be sold off, Dresdner complained.
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