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Big Investment Banking Opportunities in Emerging Markets: McKinsey
While U.S. financial markets remain gloomy, opportunities for investment bankers remain strong in emerging markets. That's the conclusion of a recent McKinsey Quarterly study that paints a cheerful picture of most of the world's banking possibilities. Even in the worst case scenario, the study says, "emerging Asia...
China on Foreign Shopping Spree, McKinsey Says
With all the talk of outsourcing to China, there is more evidence that China is expanding overseas. McKinsey & Co. reports that China doubled its direct foreign investments to $26 billion in the first quarter of 2008 compared to the first quarter of 2007. McKinsey notes that...
What the Technology Future Holds: The View From McKinsey
Three partners from McKinsey based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley have written a very provocative article on future technology trends. It's well worth a look. They examine eight trends, but the one that rings home with me is called "distributing cocreation." Basically, they are predicting that...
McKinsey: Get Ready For More Foreign M&As
The latest McKinsey Quarterly is out with a story that asks, are mergers and acquisitions over? The obvious answer is no, of course. But McKinsey's article makes a very important observation: the wave of private equity and hedge fund deals in the United States may be flaming out, but there is...
Reducing the Risks of Early M&A Discussions
Early discussions of mergers, acquisitions, or alliances are delicate and risky. When companies assess a proposed deal before announcing it, they must balance the need to understand its potential with the need to protect sensitive information. Unbiased third-party clean teams can protect sensitive data while assessing the business rationale of...
Smoothing Postmerger Integration
After a merger or acquisition has been announced, the CFO must manage the old business while integrating the new one - often with few sources of information. Even those who understand the value of a clean team often resist appointing one, because they overestimate how much time a clean team...
Financial Advice for Europeans
Europeans are getting mixed advice on life insurance and pensions from financial-services providers, according to a recent "mystery-shopping" exercise. An inability to grasp client needs, prepare an overall financial plan, or offer appropriate complementary products were among the poorer practices identified. These gaps in service combined with Europe's aging population...
Designing Better Employee Benefits
Health care costs are rising so quickly that they threaten to eclipse profits in many Fortune 500 companies. Given the impact of benefits costs, one might think that senior executives would be doing everything possible to control them and make the most of this investment in the workforce. But in...
Designing Better Employee Benefits: Adopting a Product Developer's Approach to Designing a Benefits Package Can Help Employers Get More Value From Their Health Care Investments
Health care costs are rising so quickly that they threaten to eclipse profits in many Fortune 500 companies. Given the impact of benefits costs, one might think that senior executives would be doing everything possible to control them and make the most of this investment in the workforce. But in...
The Emerging Global Labor Market: Part II - The Supply of Offshore Talent in Services
There are conflicting views on the potential for offshoring service jobs to low wage nations. This report, the second of three to analyze the emerging global labor market, quantifies the supply of talent in 28 low-wage countries and 8 mid- and high wage ones. The analysis covers a range of...
In China, Opportunity Knocks for Small Business
Small and midsize enterprises in Europe and North America are failing to take advantage of the opportunities in China, even as they come under increasing pressure from Chinese competitors in their home markets. Many such companies are reluctant to deploy scarce management resources to identify qualified vendors or to research...
The Right Role for Multiples in Valuation
The paper reveals that a properly executed multiples analysis can make financial forecasts more accurate. A careful analysis comparing a company's multiples with those of other companies can be useful in making such forecasts, and the DCF valuations they inform, more accurate. Properly executed, such an analysis can help a...
How Private Equity Firms Can Play in China
Competition to invest in new opportunities in China is making capital abundant and thus reducing the influence of individual foreign investors. For this reason, as well as a general lack of experience with China's business culture, private equity managers may have difficulty pulling off successful deals in that country for...
Internal Rate Of Return: A Cautionary Tale
From the executive summary: ‘For decades, finance textbooks and academics have warned that typical Internal Rate of Return IRR calculations, build in reinvestment assumptions, make bad projects look better and good ones look great. Yet, academic research found that three-quarters of CFOs always or almost always use IRR when evaluating...
Taming Postmerger IT Integration
Integrating IT platforms after a merger is always a challenge, particularly in the banking industry, in which IT is crucial to daily operations. Moving too slowly threatens the synergies promised by the merger; too rapid a change can alienate important customers. The paper outlines that as banks integrate their IT...
Private Equity's New Challenge
From the executive summary: ‘The trends altering the private equity landscape can offer opportunities to CFOs and other corporate strategists. Because of the surplus capital in the current market, corporations looking at acquisitions are seeing more and more competition from a broader set of financial buyers in addition to the...
Private Equity's New Challenge: A Changed Competitive Landscape Calls for a Different Business Model
This article outlines how private equity has been an important force in global corporate finance and restructuring. It also highlights a series of changes in the landscape where private equity firms have thrived. Many buyout firms also have increased their interest in private investment in public equity PIPE. These investments...
The Scrutable East
Executives hoping that an investment in Asia will boost the fortunes of their companies at home may be in for a disappointment. While markets in China and India are developing quickly, we expect returns there to lag behind those of Europe, Japan, and the United States for at least another...
A Risk-Management Upgrade for US Bank Regulators
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protects the stability of US banksùand thus confidence in themùby guaranteeing their deposits. But in 2003 increasing uncertainty about bank failures was putting pressure on the FDIC's insurance funds, raising the possibility that it would need to increase the insurance premiums banks pay it. The...
A New Era In Corporate Governance
From the executive summary: ‘More progress has been made improving the governance of U.S. corporations during the past few years. New reporting requirements that stock exchanges have ordered in response to high-profile scandals, together with tougher auditing standards under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, have pushed boards and managers to become far...
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