Financial & Business Services
The GLG Financial & Business Services Practice provides customized access to a global network of over 19,000 industry professionals in the Financial Services and Insurance industries and the business services that support them.
Financial & Business Services experts include current and former executives from Fortune 1000 companies, product structure specialists, exchange professionals, mortgage brokers, independent consultants, actuaries, and industry thought leaders.
Leading Experts on Financial & Business Services
Amanda Atkins
Chief Executive Officer
Afinia Capital Group
Amanda Atkins is the CEO of Afinia Capital Group. Afinia is backed by Deutsche Bank, Eos and Atkins Capital and assists insurance companies release capital and streamline mature or discontinued liabilities. Concurrently, she is the CEO of Atkins Capital, a consulting firm which provides financial, strategic...
Brian Hershkowitz
Chief Executive Officer
Maximum Value Group
Brian F. Hershkowitz is the Chief Executive Officer of Maximum Value Group, a consulting firm. Prior to starting his own practice in Dec 2006, he was an EVP at Fidelity National Information Services and the President of its mortgage and information services division. As President of FIS from June 2001...
President
Rigley Financial Corporation
James Butler is the Managing Director of Rigley Financial, LLC, and the Senior Partner for Rigley Capital, LLC, an Illinois-based origination and consulting firm specializing in providing advisory services to Municipal, Governmental-Issues, Consumer, Energy, Commercial, and Mortgage industry-related...
Patrick YoungChairman
Projekt Vistula
Patrick Young is Chairman of The Danube Project and is establishing a new CEE/SEE boutique investment bank in the Balkans. Mr. Young is a leading independent expert on exchanges and market structure with over 20 years of experience in various aspects of markets including derivatives. He has served as...
Managing Director
Structured Finance International, LLC
John Salomone is the Founder and Managing Director of Structured Finance International, Florida based boutique investment and merchant bank, specializing in all forms of asset and corporate finance, including equipment finance, trade and receivable finance, project finance, vendor finance and real estate...
GLG Study Groups in Financial & Business Services(?)
| Study Group Name | Members |
|---|---|
| US P&C Insurance Pricing Trend Experts | 1657 |
| Life & Health Insurance Experts | 1298 |
| Retail Mortgage Origination Experts | 1225 |
| Business Process Outsourcing Experts | 1153 |
| Commercial Printing Experts | 1153 |
GLG NewsSM Analyses in Financial & Business Services(?)
Does the sudden appeal of annuities make for a solid investment in an insurer or financial company offering annuities?
Investment companies are looking to invest in insurers 1. Consider the companies liabilities and markets before making the investment. 2.Is the temporary state of the economy enough to carry sustainable earning power of insurers selling annuities
In a year of historic and almost unimaginable retail headwinds, Mother Nature may have delivered the final coup de grâce on the holiday shopping season. In an unfortunate melding of meteorological physics and Murphy’s Law, the final and “critically important” shopping days of the 2008 holiday season...
The Dow Industrials ended the year down 33.8%, the S&P 500 was off 38.5% and the NASDAQ Composite was lower by 40.9%. Other indexes fared no better, the Value Line was down 37.4%, and the Russell 2000 was off 34.8%. Take a look at the Dow Transports, lower by 22.6% and the assumed so safe...
This article is important because it demonstrates how easily we bestow our trust to financial advisors and money managers without performing even the most basic due diligence. The article also communicates how "confidence schemes" like Madoff's are built on non-investment factors such as...
" All Market Opportunities for the Sale of Assets will be MATERIALLY Discounted in the Future"
Implications; 1.The Largest Plan for the Sale of Insurance Company Assets will miss all Goals as potential bidders are plaqued wiyh plunging stock markets. 2.Many U.S. Life Insurers basis of valuation will plumet as the basis of assets have declined , materially , and a "Fire Sale" may be necessary...
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