Word: portfolios
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...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...
...private-banking program at Singapore Management University. Before he had even graduated, he'd bagged a job with Morgan Stanley's private bank in Singapore. "The way to move forward in this competitive industry," he says, "is to think out of the box, to do things outside your conventional portfolio." That's a lesson Singapore knows by heart...
...rich and superrich clients. It's not uncommon for a top private banker to thrive with as few as a dozen clients, who are happy to pay richly for personal guidance on such esoteric matters as, say, reducing taxes, setting up a low-risk-high-return hedge-fund portfolio, investing in emerging-markets property or establishing a charitable foundation. "The profitability comes in because the client has many different relationships with the bank in terms of private equity, real estate, trusts and stockbroking," explains Deepak Sharma, chief executive of Citigroup's global wealth-management arm for Asia and the Middle...
...Schrager is also expanding his portfolio into urban planning. Adjacent to the Gramercy is a 23-unit John Pawson--designed condominium, evidence of Schrager's master plan to combine hotels with full-time residential properties--at $5 million to $10 million apiece. He is about to announce a 10,000-unit residential, retail and hotel complex in Las Vegas, inspired by the Tivoli Gardens, Central Park and a Tuscan town square. In a softening housing market, the Las Vegas project will be a stern test of Schrager's vision. "Everything Ian does has levels of influence," says Ross Klein, president...
Cash may be king right now, but don't overdo it. If you normally keep 10% of your portfolio in cash, consider going to 15%. Cash rarely returns more than stocks and bonds do over the long...