He aims to gain implicit control with a 20% to 30% stake in each, and to build a web of mutual cross-investments with sales, marketing and supply ties.

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Karatzas bought a mortgage bank and started cross-selling mutual funds and insurance.

FORBES: Athens At The Crossroads

Citigroup may not lead to enormous cross-selling of mutual funds and insurance products, but who cares?

FORBES: The "Orange Marilyn" and the market

In the past, the argument has been that in-house ownership of both a mutual fund group and a retail brokerage could increase revenues through cross selling.

FORBES: Fund Sale A Good Deal For BofA

And in Michigan, the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan there is trying to convert to a mutual plan from nonprofit in what many observers see as a move that will not only allow them to more easily conduct business and grow through future acquisitions.

FORBES: Obamacare May Push Blue Cross Health Plans To Merge

Hence, in the frame of the overall enlargement process of the European Union, A River's Dream intends to promote folk music, an intangible cultural heritage, as a means of reconciliation, regional and cross-border cooperation and, a vehicle of cultural identity and diversity as well as of mutual understanding.

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