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...protests back home and a drawn-out extradition process. They face charges that they worked with ex-Enron CFO Andrew Fastow to siphon millions of dollars from a deal between their former employer, National Westminster Bank, and Enron. And in August, most of the convictions of four former Merrill Lynch executives, who stood accused of helping Enron inflate earnings by charading a loan as the sale of energy-producing barges, were overturned. An ex-Enron manager who was also convicted decided not to contest the decision. The government is expected to appeal the ruling on the four, which hinges...
...Until now analysts such as John Murphy at Merrill, Lynch have complained that the Way Forward plan didn't seem to have the urgency required to meet the challenges facing the company, while J.D. Power's Schuster says the company's product portfolio is too thin. Ford had announced July it lost $254 million in the second quarter, and the production cuts are certain to drive the company deeper into the red. Some reports have even suggested that the company could lose anywhere from $5 billion and $7 billion...
...services only to those who are, in the industry jargon, "high-net-worth individuals" (HNWIs)?people with fortunes of at least $1 million. The number of Asians who attained that status hit 2.4 million last year, up 7.3% from 2004, according to the 2006 World Wealth Report by Merrill Lynch and human-resources firm Capgemini. That compares with 2.8 million HNWIs in Europe, where the growth rate last year...
...Last year, Asia's HNWIs were worth a total of $7.6 trillion, according to Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. That large number belies popular misconceptions about the private-banking industry. To the uninitiated, private banking is an exclusive little world of secret Swiss bank accounts and starchy "wealth advisers" plotting corporate takeovers and tax dodges with their superwealthy clients over lobster and Ch?teau Margaux. While the banks do offer many perks, it is no longer such a rarefied niche market. For many financial institutions, private banking is increasingly crucial to the bottom line. For example, 46% of Credit Suisse's pretax...
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