This has effectively opened the doors for cross-border investment and syndication opportunities between Canadian and US VCs.
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Cross-border investment plummeted by more than 50% in 2001, the first fall in a decade and the worst for 30 years.
It also suggests why floating rates did not deter cross-border investment.
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As explained here and here, globalization with it transnational production sharing and cross-border investment has mitigated the impact of currency values on trade flows.
Italy has not historically been a magnet for cross-border investment.
Lehman Brothers puts current cross-border equity investment flows at 1.6% of world market capitalization, a 20-year high.
The second reason is that cross-border equity investment has increased even more dramatically.
Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ) puts current cross-border equity investment flows at 1.6% of world market capitalization, a 20-year high.
And, because many of the investment-trust companies are bound by cross-shareholdings to the chaebol, their lending and investment decisions are suspect.
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According to a recent study by Mercer Oliver Wyman, a consulting group, and Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, cross-border mergers can work if the buyer brings more sophisticated information-technology and risk management to the target.
Over the past few months it has looked at the cross-subsidy between retail and investment banking in universal banks.
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Kent Mason, a Washington lawyer who represents retirement vendors, concedes some problems but notes that sales people whose tactics cross the line aren't unique to investment companies.
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Ping An said the investment will give it more opportunity to cross-sell its financial services.
While the argument can be made that the Dean Witter retail brokerage force and the Morgan Stanley investment bankers have a strong opportunity for cross-selling, "There do not appear to be any synergies between Morgan Stanley and Discover, " says Ken Worthington, an analyst at CIBC World Markets.
In my opinion, when outside lawyers help brokers sell or defend investment schemes by attending client meetings, they cross the line.
The chair of the session, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, said the continent needed billions of dollars of investment in infrastructure, but red tape and cross-border problems were getting in the way.
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On the first group, he writes that all could use their strong balance sheets and global cross-marketing ability to boost subscriber growth and scale up investment in content.
Some are worried that this set-up is hampering investment in the region, as well as causing problems for cross-border industries such as car manufacturing.
Several banks, among them a cross-town rival, Commerzbank, were trying to hire whole teams of investment bankers away from Deutsche.
What I do know is that, amid such powerful cross-currents and wildly divergent potential outcomes, making big one-way investment bets looks like a darn dangerous gamble.
It begins with a 15% flat rate, but taxpayers who cross certain income thresholds owe more because of the 3.8% net investment income tax, the Pease limit and the Personal Exemption Phaseout, or PEP, a backdoor increase that limits personal exemptions.
Instead of straightforward cross-border exchanges, the vehicle for trade in both goods and services can be foreign direct investment.
As for Commerzbank, major shareholder Cobra investment group has already indicated that the end of the merger will almost certainly mean a cross border deal for its subsidiary.
The bank also estimates that profit-oriented investors (including trust banks, investment trusts, individuals and foreign funds) now own a greater proportion of those shares than do cross-holding banks and business partners who frequently prop up bad managers.
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