1. Summary of The Company History Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management (CC&L) was founded in 1981 in Vancouver, focusing providing services to Canadian pension clients. This market segment demanded a balanced fund comprising Canadian equities and fixed income because the requirement by tax law. During 18 years development, CC&L it had been growing to a top 10 Canadian pension funds, and the total asset under management (AUM) had been growing to 19 billion, with pension asset under management accounting for 64%, as at December 2000. 2. Issue Identification In 2001, CC&L was facing threat that their performance over bearish time had been below the index so their clients were disappointed and starting vote with their feet. Under this …show more content…
Actually, this new business model had got some success with the small steps during the last several years. However, since this new business model not only had no known analogous model but also ran divergent to modern views of how an asset administration firm should be structured, Whether partners would support the unproven plan is uncertain. 3. New Model Analysis 3.1 Summary of the new structure proposed In order to solve the issue CC&L facing, Freund and Stoddart proposed a business plan, which mainly focus on how they would restructure CC&L. In the business plan, CC&L was split into two parts; one is Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management (IM), and the other is Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group (FG). We can call this model as multi-boutique model (Exhibit 5): While IM consisting of multiple partners, who could stay small size in order to make investment decisions that produced good performance, FG could organize all the non-investment functions – such as distribution (Sales &Marketing), administration, accounting, Legal& compliance, IT. FG would act as a common operating platform for all affiliates to compete with global competitors and help the firm to grow larger and faster. 3.2 Summary and Analysis of The Old …show more content…
This structure was beneficial for the decision-making and profit generation for the clients and gave incentive to the fund manager to get a good investment performance. If clients were solely focused on investment performance and the entire peer group also kept to adopt the traditional model, this approach proved effective to business growth. 3.3 The Reason of Restructuring Company expansion: As we mentioned before, CC&L was growing fast from 1982- 2000. As a large, integrated fund with 19 billion total AUM, the only way CC&L could stay small was dividing the firm into multi-boutique parts to make sure it can stay investment philosophy-centric in order to gain the benefits of staying small: faster decision making and higher incentives. At the same time, non-investment management function would work better at scale. The whole structure is like a umbrella (FG) cover the multi-boutique (IM or other investment partners). Market environment change: 1) In the period between 1982 and 2000, the market rose steadily, but the market became to turn to bearish market from 2001; 2) For many years, Canadian retirement savings assets were required by tax law to invest primarily in Canadian property. But in the early 1990s, these rules began to be
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You have asked me to analyze your plans for future growth and recommend the best form of business organization to accommodate that growth. I have also taken into consideration you’re your two main concerns of increased liability and ability to add investment in capital assets.
MCI current capital structure is x% debt and y% equity. Their key ratios are a, b, and c. Comparing to other firms in the utilities industry they appear to be underutilizing (debt/equity). (See exhibit D). Referencing the forecast there is expected to b...
Vanguard Case Analysis After reading through the Vanguard case, there were a few difficult forks in the road that Vanguard seems to be facing. The company’s future can be greatly affected by some of these difficult choices. Vanguard has to decide whether to change their investment offerings, further develop Internationally, or to simply advertise to increase their client base. Top managers at Vanguard have to step up to the plate and rollout detailed plans as to what path the company should take regarding some of these issues. Through our in-class discussions, the majority of the students argued on one major problem that Vanguard was facing.
The events that unfolded on September 11th and the days that followed also profoundly effected the stock market. It is the purpose of this paper is to examine what happened to both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ after September 11th and how it is similar to events such as the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Gulf War in terms of how the stock market experienced a blow and bounced back after a while.
recent experience with Disneyland in Paris not to have a too aggressive capital structure in place, they
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In early 1928 the Dow Jones Average went from a low of 191 early in the year, to a high of 300 in December of 1928 and peaked at 381 in September of 1929. (1929…) It was anticipated that the increases in earnings and dividends would continue. (1929…) The price to earnings ratings rose from 10 to 12 to 20 and higher for the market’s favorite stocks. (1929…) Observers believed that stock market prices in the first 6 months of 1929 were high, while others saw them to be cheap. (1929…) On October 3rd, the Dow Jones Average began to drop, declining through the week of October 14th. (1929…)
The history of Lehman Brothers (LBs) is dated back to 1844 when Henry Lehman and his two brothers established a small shop in Alabama (United States) to sell groceries and other commodities (Geisst, 2001). In the early 1900’s, they formed to a greater business company trading on the New York exchange market and the Cotton Exchange, which successfully promoted the family business to the retail giants with a partnership with Goldman and Sachs (Geisst, 2001; Wechsberg, 1966). Subsequently, the further opportunity raised in collaboration with some firms in the railway industry such as the Baltimore and Ohio railways, Chicago railways and others (Harward Business School, 2012). In 1975, the company achieved its success when it became the 4th largest investment bank in the US by merging with Kuhn, Loeb and Company, which boosted their financial activities in the financial market (Sloane, 1977). In the new line of business by diversifying their operations from a small shop via investments in the industry sectors, eventually they transformed to the company operating in the banking and brokerage (Geisst, 2001). Although LBs experienced remarkable successes and achievements, the housing market bubble in USA led to their collapse causing that in September 2008 the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions that triggered a negative flow of consequences (Caplan et al., 2010).
But divesture of three out of four divisions leads to a very small portfolio which leads to chances of high risks as well. The process of restructuring and forming a better portfolio would provide the firm with a lot many opportunities including exploring newer and more compatible product lines and segments, thus increasing its opportunities to earn better revenues with efficient management.
“Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies” (Vivek Wadhwa). Therefore, if Merrill Lynch had not forgotten their ethics the lawsuits would not have been so detrimental to their brand. Charles Merrill, who was a native of Florida, embarked on a journey that would lead him on his way to New York; he had the precognition to separate much of his holdings before the 1929 crash. Similar consideration would have served the firm well during the era of collateral securities in the early 2000s. So on January 6, 1914, Charles Merrill launched his brokerage firm as a one-man
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Prior to 2005 Morgan Stanley had no economical advantage, now with changes implemented in a competitive industry such as this Morgan Stanley's strength of employees, global product range and leading market share for Institutional Securities, Global Wealth Management and Asset Management has the firm making strong profits.
LVMH was able to broaden the company’s media operations, create new retail outlet, enhance their line of champagne, and open fashion houses, like Fendi. LVMH found their corporate strategy was diversification into a wide variety of luxury products. They grouped all of their brands into six different business units. Their wine/spirits unit poss...
Given the lack of education by its members, their success is impressive. COHDEFOR should be delighted with their experiment. Nevertheless, any future attempts to copy this model should be carefully analyzed and basic business skills, such as accounting, should be taught to members before letting them run a business.