The News Review:
- SocGen Agricole to merge asset management units
- New Star Asset Management says in talks with Henderson
- Applying Meaning to Management With Ancient Hindu Mythology
- Apollo Management’s $14.8 billion windfall
- CommVault Introduces Simpana 8 Next-Generation Data Management …
SocGen Agricole to merge asset management units
Reuters
PA) andCredit Agricole (. PA) have signed a preliminary agreement tomerge their asset management arms and create a top 10 globalplayer the French banks said on Monday. The new company will be 70 percent owned by Agricole and 30percent owned by SocGen. According to proforma figures from September 30 2008 thenew entity would have 638 billion euros ($826. 5 billion) ofassets under management. It would have revenues of 1.
New Star Asset Management says in talks with Henderson
MarketWatch
An offer would be conditional upon completion of New Star’s proposed capital restructuring. If a deal was agreed substantially all the proceeds would be applied to the repayment of the company’s current liabilities and it is not certain that any transaction will lead to a significant return if any to current shareholders the firm said.
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Applying Meaning to Management With Ancient Hindu Mythology
Washington Post United States
"The ancient Hindu tales that Pattanaik 38 tells his corporate audiences are full of fallible kings stoically suffering queens demons enticing the gods into lawless jungles gods with rivers sprouting from their dreadlocks and goddesses riding elephants. But the round-faced bespectacled author who graduated from medical school and has worked as a business strategist for the consulting firm Ernst & Young says he is not like the wise old grandmother who sits under a banyan tree telling stories. Instead he says he is helping to create a set of management principles that are steeped in Indian culture. He calls it the "3-B" model: belief behavior and business. "I am a pattern-finder. The mythologies are stars — I point out the constellation" he said. "The world of business and the world of our mythological tales are not too different.
Apollo Management’s $14.8 billion windfall
BloggingStocks
Well it might be an exaggeration. In fact there are actually some signs of life. Just look at Apollo Management LP. According to Reuters the firm was able to pull off a miracle by raising a whopping.
CommVault Introduces Simpana 8 Next-Generation Data Management …
MarketWatch (press release)
– The breakthrough release helps companies manage larger amounts of data scale to accommodate an expanding globally distributed enterprise and implement cost-saving strategies by offering users new snapshot-based data management data deduplication laptop and desktop protection remote office data management and advanced copy management features. — The new version of Simpana software continues CommVault’s commitment to delivering comprehensive data protection backup and recovery and information management capabilities that enable companies to solve key business challenges and transform their enterprise. — Built on the industry’s only truly singular unified platform Simpana 8 can meet a broad spectrum of customer’s discovery and recovery management requirements and eliminate the need for a myriad of point level products. Customers gain improved access to more data simplified data management rapid recovery and dramatic improvements in performance slashing data management costs by up to 40 percent.