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                                                             trade shares of Facebook                                            BY NEIL SEN
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                                                                                              Asia’s
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             Still feeling the sting of the                  Group blends the                 foothold in Asia.                  Smaller Chinese
             financial crisis, university                    benefits of a big firm with                                         companies keep the
             endowments are turning to                       those of a boutique.                                                IPOs flowing despite
             risk management to                                                                                                  market setbacks.
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                                     The BoJ’s Masaaki
                                     Shirakawa is responding
                                     aggressively to the disaster



                                     JAPAN                                            and destruction, it     of deflation. A number of early     last resort but would extend to
                                      RALLYING JAPAN                                  was not long before     economic omens have been            effectively underwriting a share
                                     THE CRISIS MAY BE                                hopes arose that not    encouraging, amid the gloom.        of the government’s reconstruc-
                                     A CATALYST FOR                                   only would Japan be        For a start, Bank of Japan       tion costs by what amounts to
                                     RECOVERY                                         able to rebuild but     Governor Masaaki Shirakawa          monetizing Tokyo’s debt.
                                                                                      that it also would      used a massive injection of            Even before the earthquake,
                                                                                      reap monetary, fiscal   liquidity to shore up the coun-     the bank had begun stepping
         TOMOHIRO OHSUMI/BLOOMBERG




                                        A silver lining was not what     and other economic benefits          try’s financial system. Indeed,     up its purchases of Japanese
                                        anyone expected to find          from the disaster, if at far too     the sum was so large — ¥40 tril-    Government Bonds (JGBs)
                                        in the radioactive cloud         high a human cost.                   lion ($495 billion), or close to    to prevent a rise in long-term
                                     that fanned out from Japan’s           As callous as it may sound,       one fifth of its balance sheet —    yields from further damping
                                     Fukushima Daiichi nuclear           the catastrophe may have been        that it provoked speculation that   Japan’s anemic recovery. The
                                     plant following March 11’s          the catalyst the country needed      the central bank’s white-knight     pace is now bound to pick up.
                                     devastating earthquake and tsu-     to galvanize its stagnant econ-      role might not be restricted to        In addition, the BoJ has
                                     nami. And yet, amid all the death   omy and escape from decades          that of short-term lender of        doubled, to ¥10 trillion, its

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           Public Finances                       Libya’s
                                                 Saif Gaddafi:
                                                 Owning the Santa                                                          lion Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
                                                 Monica freeway?                                                           could take a stake in bringing back
        existing program of purchasing                                                                                     the glory of aging LaGuardia Airport.
        government bonds, real estate                                                                                          To be sure, most sovereign wealth
        investment trusts and even some                                                                                    funds are prudent, patient investors,
                                                                                                                           and they don’t pursue overt political
        equity instruments from finan-                                                                                     agendas, says Darrell West, Brook-
        cial institutions as a way to inject                                                                               ings’s director of governance stud-
        liquidity into the economy.                                                                                        ies. “We looked at how they have
           Other dramatic measures                                                                                         invested,” he says. “They generally
        are being contemplated to help                                                                                     take a long-term perspective and
                                                                                                                           do not seek controlling ownership.”
        with the recovery. In late March                                                                                       What’s more, they’ve got plenty
        the newspaper Sankei Shimbun                                                                                       of dough. Sovereign wealth funds
        reported that Japan’s Ministry                                                                                     control some $4 trillion, and eco-
        of Finance was considering                PUBLIC FINANCES                                                          nomic trends suggest some will
        whether to issue ¥10 trillion          SMOOTHING                                                                   become even wealthier.
        of JGBs directly to the central        THE BUMPS                                                                       “In our integrated global econ-
                                                                                                                           omy, capital is going to move across
        bank. However, Finance                 SWFS MIGHT FIX                                                              borders,” points out Gordon Gold-
        Minister Yoshihiko Noda said           U.S. POTHOLES                                                               stein, one of the Brookings report’s co-
        “cautious debate” was needed                                                                                       authors. If the U.S. doesn’t embrace
        before the MoF asked the cen-               Call it pothole politics — debate over how to fix       such global investments, he says, other countries will,
                                                    the U.S.’s infrastructure: failing commuter rail-       and they will gain a competitive advantage.
        tral bank to underwrite govern-             ways, crumbling bridges, ancient sewer lines,              Nevertheless, the notion of the U.S. welcoming
        ment bond issues this way.             decrepit electrical grids and, of course, pitted roads.      national foreign investments as if it were some
           BoJ officials say in private that   But discussion doesn’t get the job done if there’s no        neo-emerging-markets country may be hard for
        they would be reluctant to see         money, and there’s no money. So a think tank, the            many politicians to stomach.




       “
        a change in the rule barring the       Brookings Institution in Washington, has come up                Imagine, for instance, if the $70 billion Libyan
                                               with a possible solution: Recruit interest from flush sov-   Investment Authority, founded by Muammar al-
                                               ereign wealth funds like China’s and Abu Dhabi’s.            Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, owned a big
                                                   In a March 11 report, “Rebuilding America: The           chunk of the Santa Monica Freeway. (It does, in fact,
                                               Role of Foreign Capital and Global Public Investors”         own a small portion of the fabled Financial Times.)
        Japan’s real                           (brookings.edu), Brookings urges a budget-
                                               strapped U.S. to embrace investments from these
                                                                                                               Sovereign wealth funds represent a highly
                                                                                                            diverse universe of actors, Goldstein admits: “It
        GDP growth                             national piggy banks, particularly for infrastructure        would be a mistake to characterize them in
        will be ‘around                        projects and new ventures such as green technology.
                                                   Beijing’s $332 billion China Investment Corp.
                                                                                                            broad-brush terms.” Not so long ago, nobody
                                                                                                            would have envisioned multibillion-dollar Chinese
        zero’ this year                        could help fund President Obama’s vaunted plans              holdings in U.S. Treasury bonds.
        but will rebound                       for a high-speed rail network; perhaps the $430 bil-                                        — IMOGEN ROSE-SMITH

        in 2012.
        — Hiroshi Watanabe
        Japan Bank for




       ”
        International Cooperation              engage in such a transaction.”          the yen caused by speculators’          Hiroshi Watanabe, president
                                                  Shijuro Ogata, a former vice         betting that Japan will have to         of the Japan Bank for Inter-
                                               governor for international rela-        repatriate yen assets en masse          national Cooperation and a
                                               tions at the BoJ, tells Institutional   to pay for reconstruction.              former vice minister of MoF,
        bank from underwriting govern-         Investor that the bank will in the         In multiple ways, then, the          expects Japan’s real GDP
        ment bonds, even in an emer-           meantime continue to provide            BoJ is escalating its efforts to        growth this year to be “around
        gency. They fear that relaxing         additional liquidity by purchas-        revive Japan’s battered econ-           zero” but to rebound in 2012.
        the restriction could open the         ing public debt, such as JGBs, in       omy. The need for such stimu-              Yet in another example of
        door to more general monetiza-         the open market along with buy-         lus is becoming all the clearer         serendipity, the earthquake
        tion of government debt.               ing up private sector commercial        as estimates of the disaster’s          perversely reminded many
            Nevertheless, one senior           paper, corporate bonds, equities        economic impact grow.                   dispirited Japanese of their
                                                                                                                                                                      JAMAL NASRALLAH/BLOOMBERG




        central banker, who insisted on        and other instruments.                     The chief problem is the             country’s continuing impor-
        anonymity, did indicate that the          On top of all this, the bank         loss of electric power caused           tance to the global economy
        BoJ might agree to purchase            has begun foreign exchange              by the partial meltdown of the          and especially to Asia’s. Har-
        proposed earthquake-recovery           market intervention to further          Fukushima reactor. Rolling              uhiko Kuroda, president of
        bonds from the government as           boost liquidity. The Group of           power blackouts are likely to           the Asian Development Bank,
        a “very, very exceptional case,        Seven countries also intervened         play havoc with production of           describes Japan as the center
        on the condition that a new law        massively in the forex market           cars and parts and electronic           of “Factory Asia” – a sophis-
        is enacted, allowing the BoJ to        in mid-March to stop a spike in         components for many months.             ticated, highly integrated pro-

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        duction and distribution system                                                               civil war that led     current investors in Petro-
        that accounts for Asia’s vast output                                                          to independence        China, whose parent, China
        of goods — and which can’t func-                                                              but also gave rise     National Petroleum Corp.
        tion without Japan.                                                                           to a humanitarian      (CNPC), does extensive
            Another surprise boon of                                                                  crisis in Sudan’s      business with the corrupt
        Japan’s misfortunes was Tokyo’s                                                               western region         regime of Bashir, which has
        willingness to embrace help from                                                              of Darfur. Will        been accused of genocide.
        China and Russia. Japan has been                                                              this hopeful new          TIAA-CREF divested its
        on the brink of confrontation with                                                            peace hold? Does       shares in PetroChina at the
        both of these countries over ter-                                                             Southern Sudan         end of 2009 after it failed to
        ritorial disputes, so this bodes well                                                         have a future as a     persuade CNPC to stop sub-
        for their future relations.                Most of Sudan’s oil                                sovereign state?       sidizing the violent activities of
                                                   is in the south, but




                                                                                                                             “
            None of this muted good news                                                                 An uneasy           the Bashir government. “Our
                                                   the north controls
        is to imply that recovering from           distribution
                                                                                                      truce in the civil
        the calamity will be anything                                                                 war has held since
        but a struggle. As of late March,         GLOBAL INVESTING                                    2005, although
        the toll in dead and missing               SUDAN CHANGE                                       rebels in Darfur
                                                                                                                             Investors
                                                  ASSESSING THE
                                                                                                                             should ask
        approached 27,000; the human                                                                  agreed to their lat-
        cost will always be incalculable.         FREE SOUTH                                          est cease-fire only
        Tokyo puts the price tag for the                                                              last year. More-       if they can
        damage at $200 billion, or twice                                                              over, the under-       influence a
        that of the Kobe (Great Hanshin)
        earthquake in 1995. And Japan
                                                      This July south Sudan is
                                                      to become the Republic
                                                                                       lying causes of the conflict
                                                                                       remain sensitive: the south’s oil
                                                                                                                             corporation.
        embarks upon this epic effort                 of Southern Sudan. In            riches (and the north’s relative      ‘If the answer
        with a debt load twice the size of        January’s plebiscite nearly 99       lack thereof) and ancient tribal      is no, then it’s
        its GDP and an economy that has
        been constantly on the verge of
                                                  percent of southern Sudanese
                                                  voted to secede from the north.
                                                                                       rivalries and religious schisms.
                                                                                       Freedom for the south could
                                                                                                                             time to divest. ’
                                                                                                                             — David Raad




                                                                                                                             ”
        stalling for many years.                  Sudan’s president, Omar              exacerbate old tensions.              Ex-diplomat
            Still, the Japanese have a prov-      Hassan al-Bashir, has pledged           The revolution casts a
        erb: Fall down seven times, get up        to abide by the outcome.             spotlight on the role played in
        eight. Perhaps the horrible events           The creation of Southern          Sudan by Western financial
        of March 11 will provide the impe-        Sudan will conclude, symboli-        firms, including Franklin             sense after making this effort
        tus for that eighth time.                 cally as well as formally, more      Templeton, JPMorgan                   and not having any success
                           — Anthony Rowley       than five decades of bloody          Chase and Vanguard — all              was that this wasn’t a way to
                                                                                                                             leverage our ownership in the
                                                                                                                             company,” says John Wilson,
                                                                                                                             director of corporate gover-
                   COMPENSATION
                                                                                                                             nance for TIAA-CREF.
                PAY CHECK GO EAST, YOUNG BANKER                                                                                 Still, he adds that even with
                     The British government’s push for banks to be more forthcoming about top earners’ pay is                an independent south, the
                     meant to shame them into being more circumspect about compensation. Paradoxically,
                     the 2010 comp figures being released under the disclosure rules show that top U.K.-based                same dubious financial links
                bankers earn significantly less than their foreign counterparts, especially in Asian markets.                will remain between the oil
                    HSBC awarded an elite group of 186 London-based “code staff” (that is, top traders,                      business and the government
                bankers and other nonsenior managers) an average of $1.22 million in salary and bonuses                      in Khartoum. “I don’t think
                                                                                                                                                                  OIL WORKERS: TREVOR SNAPP/BLOOMBERG;




                for 2010. By contrast, the bank typically paid members of an equivalent coterie of 280 star                  the fundamental factors of
                staffers outside the U.K. $1.6 million. HSBC is not unique in being extra generous to its Asia-
                based employees. Thomson Reuters confirms that the trend is widespread.                                      our decision have changed
                    HSBC CEO Stuart Gulliver was asked point-blank by a reporter: “Why do you pay people                     very much,” Wilson says. Sig-
                in the U.K. less? Is it because the market is hotter in Asia?” Gulliver’s response: “[Asian] econo-          nificantly, the West’s broad
                mies are growing at a rapid pace, and that is where the pressure is on compensation.”
                                                                                                                                                                  PAPER: RICHARD MEGNA




                                                                                                                             sanctions against Western oil
                    It’s no wonder that U.K.-based bankers, feeling unloved and underpaid as well as over-                   companies doing business in
                taxed, migrate eastward. Christian Brun, a Hong Kong–based partner of recruiter Wellesley
                Partners, says he’s been steadily receiving CVs from bankers in London and New York seek-                    Sudan will remain in place
                ing work in Asia. The catch? Unless a banker has relevant expertise — say, in Hong Kong                      for now.
                IPOs (see page 58) — it can be tough to find a job in Asia.                  — CHRISTOPHER ALESSI               Fidelity, too, essentially
                                                                                                                             divested its PetroChina

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       holdings, perhaps in part
       because of a lobbying campaign
       by Investors Against Genocide,
                                                                                                  but the fact that it
                                                                                                  doesn’t really take
                                                                                                  care of too-big-to-
                                                                                                                         3     Can Fannie Mae and
                                                                                                                               Freddie Mac be fixed?
                                                                                                                         My idea is to get the govern-
       a privately funded Boston non-                                                             fail sets the stage    ment out of the mortgage
       profit. IAG head Eric Cohen tes-                                                           in a sense for the     business, not create a hybrid
       tified to Congress in November                                                             next crisis. Con-      where you socialize risk to the
       that stricter transparency laws                                                            gress didn’t do the    taxpayer and privatize gains to
       are needed so that investors can                                                           necessary work         the stockholders. That is what
       readily discern whether their                                                              [and] hold the         happened. We certainly don’t
       investments are, as he puts it to                                                          necessary hear-        want to re-create something
       II, “genocide-free.”                                                                       ings on the front      like the Fannie and Freddie
           Fidelity sold all but a fraction                                                       end in the bank-       mode, which failed. The
       of its shares in 2007 and today                                                            ing committees of      administration hasn’t got any
       holds a “negligible percentage,”                                                           the Senate or the      real idea where they want to




       “
       according to a spokesman. On                                                               House to write a       go. We need leadership from
                                               FIVE QUESTIONS FOR                                 well-thought-out       the administration. They are
                                                    RICHARD                                       law. Dodd-             supposed to propose things,
                                               SHELBY                                             Frank abdicates        but I’ve seen no proposals
       Are we                                  KNOCKING DODD-                                     responsibility by      worthy of the name yet.
                                               FRANK REGS
       comfortable
                                                                                                  Congress to regu-

       owning this
       company?
                                                                                                  lators. Regulators
                                                                                                  have failed in the
                                                     Alabama’s Richard Shelby, past, and now they are in the
                                                                                                                         4    You oppose the
                                                                                                                              nomination of Nobel
                                                                                                                         Prize–winning MIT economist
       — John Wilson                                 the ranking Republican on process of bringing out scores            Peter Diamond to the Fed




       ”
       TIAA-CREF                                     the U.S. Senate Banking       of rules and regulations. We are      board because you say it
                                               Committee, is outspoken in his going down the wrong road.                 already has too many
                                               criticism of the Obama admin-                                             Keynesians. Didn’t Keynesians

       its web site the firm defends the
       principle of remaining invested
                                               istration’s financial policies. Yet
                                               his support for Big Banking          2    What’s the worst thing
                                                                                         about the law?
                                               is by no means automatic. He The biggest flaw is a consumer
                                                                                                                         save the world in the
                                                                                                                         Great Depression?
                                                                                                                         What we need are people on
       in a company as potentially the         opposed George W. Bush’s            agency [the Consumer Finan-           the Fed who know something
       best way to influence it to mend        bank bailout bill, objected to      cial Protection Bureau] that is       about monetary policy and
       its ways.                               financial deregulation in 1999 self-funding, accountable to no            are mainline economists, not
           Former diplomat David Raad,         — the only Senate Republi-          one, gets about 10 percent of         behavioral economists and
       who represented the U.S. in the         can to do so — and resisted         the Federal Reserve’s operat-         champions of bailouts. Look
       negotiations that led to Sudan’s        letting federally insured banks ing budget and is not subject             at the Fed’s balance sheet.
       peace agreement, says investors         sell insurance. He also was         to the appropriations process         It’s the largest in history, and
       should ask themselves if their par-     early to fault Fannie Mae and of Congress. That is horrible.              it’s going to be interesting
       ticipation can positively affect the    Freddie Mac.                        I oppose a lot of the policies of     how they deleverage. A lot of
       behavior of a corporation. “If the          The senator, who has            Elizabeth Warren [President           commodities are indicative
       answer is no,” he says, “then it’s      lately focused his wrath on         Obama has put Warren in               of future inflation, and once
       probably time to divest.”               the Dodd-Frank Act, spoke           charge of establishing the            inflation takes off, it’s hard to
           TIAA-CREF is taking a wait-         recently with Institutional         consumer agency but has not           bring back price stability.
       and-see approach to whether the         Investor Senior Contributing        yet nominated her to head it].
       south’s independence justifies tak-
       ing another look at PetroChina.
                                               Writer Charles Wallace.             This is a power grab if you have
                                                                                   ever seen one in the Congress.        5    Some say the Republican
                                                                                                                              Party is too close to banks.
           “We’re going to be asking the
                                               1      Will Dodd-Frank prevent      She would be the queen or the         We’re not close at all. I’m
                                                                                                                                                             JOSHUA ROBERTS/BLOOMBERG




       same questions we asked before,”               the next banking crisis?     czar of all. She would be telling     certainly not close. I don’t own
       Wilson says. “Are we comfortable        Absolutely not. Dodd-Frank          financial institutions how to         one share of stock in banks. But
       owning this company, and do we          is flawed. It has probably insti-   run, what products to offer,          a good, solid bank that is well
       feel like we’re going to be asking      tutionalized to some extent the everything. We don’t even                 capitalized but not overregu-
       our participants to profit from         too-big-to-fail doctrine, and       know the scope of her authority       lated will create jobs. Who is
       genocide by doing so?”                  that is not good. Many things       or what she would hope would          going to create them if we don’t
                            — Katie Gilbert    in Dodd-Frank are problems,         be her authority.                     have a fluid banking system?

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       BOFA TAPS AMBANI;
       HEFNER GOES
       PRIVATE; PAULSON
       PLUGS PROPERTY
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       GIVES BOFA BREADTH
       For a bank that operates in 150
       countries and traces its roots
       to an institution founded by
       an immigrant to lend to other
       immigrants, Bank of America
       has been pretty provincial in its
       selection of board members.
       Only now is BofA getting
       around to naming its first for-
       eign director.
          But the choice should
       do a lot to make up for the
       oversight: Mukesh Ambani,
       53, the chairman, managing
       director and significant owner
       of India’s biggest private
       sector company, Reliance
       Industries, an energy and
       materials conglomerate with
       a $75 billion market cap.
       (Mukesh’s brother, Anil,
       wound up with the telecom,          raging bull. In his latest movie,   tion, manipulation and old-         Mubarak gave that obstinate
       financial services and enter-       Limitless, De Niro, 67, takes an    fashioned bribery.                  speech saying he wasn’t going
       tainment side of the family         almost professorial role (think               — Franziska Scheven       to step down.”
       business after their father,        of it as Professor Godfather                                                Fattouh was impressed
       Dhirubhai, died in 2002.)           teaching Gordon Gekko),             AHMED FATTOUH                       that the demonstrators never
          Mukesh Ambani, a                 explaining through his own          TALKS TAHRIR                        lost their “peaceful and nonvio-
       Stanford B-school dropout,          experiences how Wall Street         Once protesters in Cairo’s          lent posture.” He told the crowd
       may be able to give BofA some       climbers can make the ascent        Tahrir Square discovered            they had the support of the
       personal advice on a subject        in a postcrash, Fed-regulated       that Ahmed Fattouh speaks           Egyptian diaspora in America.
       where it could use a tutorial:      environment. Some of the            Arabic and English, they                Born in Egypt but raised
       mortgage financing. You see,        comments sound timeless,            asked the Egyptian-American         in Connecticut (his family
       he owns the world’s most            and some downright mafia-           money manager to give them          emigrated in 1978), Fattouh
       expensive house, the 27-story       esque. “Climb up the greasy         a speech.                           has kept up with Egyptian
       “Antilia” in Mumbai, which          little rungs on the ladder,” De        “I had gone over to              politics; his great grandfather
       cost about $1 billion.              Niro, who plays a corporate         observe what was going on,”         and grandfather were pre-
                                                                                                                                                       AMBANI: PANKAJ NANGIA/BLOOMBERG;
                                                                                                                                                       DE NIRO: RON SACHS/VIA BLOOMBERG




                          — Niraj Bhatt    raider, says to an ambitious        says Fattouh, 37, who runs          revolutionary party leaders.
                                           colleague who absorbs mental        $200 million New York City              Fattouh is optimistic, albeit
       ROBERT DE NIRO,                     powers by swallowing a pill;        emerging-markets invest-            wary of the future. “No matter
       GODFATHER GEKKO                     marry “the girl with the right      ment firm Globalist Capital         what happens,” he says, “we
       Actor Robert De Niro                father”; and threaten, bribe        Management.“I felt drawn to         have begun a process that at
       has played a Machiavellian          and charm your way into             the notion of change. I didn’t      the end of the day is creating
       mafia boss, a crooked Casino        that “seat at the table.” Not       expect to be speaking to tens of    a living, beating constitution,”
       operator, a gun-wielding taxi       only is greed good, as Gekko        thousands of people. And I was      the foundation of any robust
       driver, a master thief and a        would have it, so are extor-        on stage just before [Hosni]        democracy, which, Fattouh

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                                                                                                            from top left: BofA
                                                                                                            director Ambani;
                                                                                                            Professor Godfather
                                                                                                            De Niro, Tahrir Square                                     GOING GAGA FOR
                                                                                                            speaker Fattouh;                                           ROBIN HOOD
                                                                                                            private person
                                                                                                                                                                        As this spring’s annual round
                                                                                                            Hefner; house seller
                                                                                                            Paulson; hedgie                                             of hedge fund charity parties
                                                                                                            charmer Lady Gaga                                           gets under way, the must-have
                                                                                                                                                                        ticket, as usual, is the Robin
                                                                                                                                                                        Hood Foundation’s do. To
                                                                                                                                                                        be held May 9 at New York’s
                                                                                                                                                                        Jacob Javits Convention Center,
                                                                                                                                                                        the gala is the alternative-
                                                                                                                                                                        investments answer to Lady
                                                                                                                                                                        Astor’s ball. The lavish party
                                                                                                                                                                        is always aswarm with hedge
                                                                                                                                                                        fund blue bloods, not least the
                                                                                                                                                                        members of the foundation’s
                                                                                                                                                                        board, including Robin Hood
                                                                                                                                                                        co-founder Paul Tudor Jones,
                                                                                                                                                                        CEO of Tudor Investment
                                                                                                                                                                        Corp.; board chair Lee Ainslie,
                                                                                                                                                                        managing partner of Maverick
                                                                                                                                                                        Capital, and co–vice chair Dan-
                                                                                                                                                                        iel Och, managing member of
                                                                                                                                                                        Och-Ziff Capital Management.
                                                                                                                                                                            Founded in 1988 to combat
                                                                                                                                                                        poverty in New York City, the
                                                                                                                                                                        foundation has become a phil-
                                                                                                                                                                        anthropic tour de force, giving
                                                                                                                                                                        away tens of millions in grants
                                                                                                                                                                        each year. In 2008 the gala
                                                                                                                                                                       raised $60 million from its din-
                                                       hopes, will lead to an infusion of   of Rizvi, proclaims that he is       Paulson, a skeptic on the             ner and auction. Typical prizes:
                                                       foreign investment. — I.R.-S.        pleased to be teaming up with        strength of the dollar, told inves-   enjoying a one-on-one lunch
                                                                                            the author of the Playboy phi-       tors he’s enthusiastic about          with a star hedge fund manager
                                                       HUGH HEFNER’S                        losophy as the “legendary brand      hard assets like houses, includ-      or having a classroom named
                                                       PRIVATE AFFAIR                       enters a new chapter.” Never-        ing second homes, and gold.           after you. The fundraiser has
                                                       Private is not a word one would      theless, Kohn will want to be           Paulson, 55, knows some-           become famous not only for the
                                                       ordinarily associate with Hugh       paid back in more than pruri-        thing of the vicissitudes of the      amount of money it collects but
                                                       Hefner, whose life has always        ent interest.              —F  .S.   second-home market. Back              also for its A-list entertainment.
                                                       been an open magazine, with                                               in 2006 he bought a weekend           Last year Stevie Wonder did the
                                                       a foldout in the middle. But         JOHN PAULSON’S                       home in Southampton for               honors, and the year before that
                                                       the octogenarian founder and         HARD ASSETS                          about $13 million. When he            it was the Black Eyed Peas.
                                                       personification of Playboy           He made his name and                 tried to unload it after buying an        Still, this year’s featured per-
       LADY GAGA: BLOOMBERG NEWS; HEFNER AND HARRIS:




                                                       Enterprises is taking his likewise   fortune brilliantly shorting         even bigger place, he got gored       former is truly out of this world:
                                                       aging empire of clubs and resorts    the housing market in 2007,          on his Ox Pasture Road pur-           Lady Gaga. A one-time denizen
       WIREIMAGE; PAULSON: JIN LEE/BLOOMBERG




                                                       private with financing from pri-     precrash. But now John               chase, taking a $3 million loss.      of the City’s Lower East side,
                                                       vate equity firm Rizvi Traverse      Paulson, founder of $30 bil-            But for Paulson that was           Gaga, 25, who made $60 million
                                                       Management and invest-               lion hedge fund firm Paulson         just the cost of doing busi-          last year, is of course known for
                                                       ment bank Jefferies. Despite         & Co., tells investors to look at    ness. His new weekend digs,           provocative outfits and even
                                                       Playboy’s dwindling readership       real estate, buy a house or two,     a Southampton waterfront              more provocative behavior.
                                                       and tough competition from           and don’t hesitate to take out       estate called Old Trees, cost         At the Grammy Awards, she
                                                       raunchier publications and the       an extra mortgage.                   him $41.3 million in 2008,            emerged from an egg. Indeed,
                                                       anything-goes Internet, Hefner          At a conference last month        pocket change for the man who         Gaga and top hedge fund man-
                                                       will remain editor-in-chief.         hosted by fund of hedge funds        made billions betting correctly       agers have this in common: out-
                                                       Ben Kohn, managing director          manager EnTrust Capital,             against subprime.        — I.R.-S.    landish performance. — I.R.-S.

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                                                                                                      cent market share, according to Dealogic. But it’s 13th and 14th in
                                                                                                      global and European M&A, respectively, with less than 5 percent
                                                                                                      of both markets. “We want to use our global platform to take a much
                                                                                                      greater share of cross-continental deals,” Novelli says. He adds that
                                                                                                      the bank plans to become “global, narrow and deep,” with a focus on
                                                                                                      resources, energy and financials. Nomura’s strategy and operations
                                                                                                      are unaffected by the tragic events in Japan, Novelli says.
                                                                                                          Still, the father of two faces an uphill battle. This year Nomura has
                                                                                                      lost several star European bankers who came onboard after it bought
                                                                                                      some of Lehman Brothers Holdings’ European business in 2008.
                                                                                                          If anyone is up to the challenge, it’s Novelli, who was born and
                                                                                                      raised in Rome, where he earned an MSc in engineering from
                                                                                                      Sapienza – Università di Roma in 1989. Four years later, with a mas-
                                                                                                      ter’s in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
                                                                                                      he joined Merrill Lynch & Co. as an associate in New York.
                                                                                                          Edward Annunziato, who ran European M&A when Novelli
                                                                                                                                                   started at Merrill, thinks the
                                                                                                                                                   rainmaker benefited from his

                                                                                                      Financial                                    spell in the U.S. At the time
                                                                                                                                                   Merrill was exporting Ameri-

                                                                                                      Engineer                                     can capitalism to Europe,
                                                                                                                                                   which had no history of cross-
                           IT’S AN IMPRESSIVE NUMBER BY ANY STANDARD: DURING                          Piero Novelli predicts more border deals. Novelli’s ability
                           his 18-year career Piero Novelli has advised on almost $600 billion        global deals as Nomura’s to bridge the cultural gap was
                           worth of deals. The new co-head of mergers and acquisitions at             co-head of M&A.                              an asset, says Annunziato,
                           Nomura Holdings must now help steer Japan’s biggest investment                   BY JAYNE JUNG                          now chairman of London-
                           bank toward its goal of becoming a global leader in M&A. After a                                                        and New York–based hedge
                           two-year break from banking, he’s strongly enthusiastic. “I love the                                                    fund administrator GlobeOp
                           M&A business,” says Novelli, 45. “It allows you a latitude of issues,                                                   Financial Services.
                           clients, culture and complexities that very few other businesses could                                                     Novelli transferred to
                           present to you.”                                                                                                        London in 1994, when
                              Novelli joined Nomura’s London office in January. He previously         Merrill ranked 12th in M&A for Europe, the Middle East and
                           led M&A at UBS, where his clients included Barcelona-based Gas             Africa. He rose to prominence by focusing on consumer products
                           Natural in its €22.5 billion ($28.2 billion) acquisition of fellow Span-   and industrials. In a showcase of cultural sensitivity, Novelli advised
                           ish energy provider Unión Fenosa in 2009. In 2007 he advised Italian       French automaker Renault on its 1999 alliance with Japan’s almost-
                           energy giant Enel on its €11.1 billion partial takeover of Spain’s         bankrupt Nissan Motor Co. When he resigned as head of European
                           Endesa and defended ABN Amro Bank against a successful €71 bil-            M&A in 2004 to go to UBS, Merrill had climbed to fifth place.
                           lion bid by Royal Bank of Scotland, Banco Santander and Fortis.               At UBS, Novelli moved quickly: By 2007 the Swiss bank had
                              Trained as an engineer, the soccer-loving Italian gets the math         jumped from 12th to second in EMEA rankings. He quit UBS for
                           and the politics of cross-border transactions. Take the Endesa deal,       personal reasons in late 2009 after taking a sabbatical.
                           a saga of three countries and four companies. Novelli’s UBS team              Within five years, Novelli predicts, Nomura can crack the top ten
                           advised not only Gas Natural on its hostile bid for Endesa but also        in Asian and European M&A, by deal value and revenues. This global
                           Enel on its winning counterbid with Spanish conglomerate Acciona,          citizen is mindful of the rising power of state-owned enterprises.“For
                           after E.On of Germany made a €29.1 billion cash offer.                     our advice to be valuable to our clients, particularly in the non–Anglo
         GIAN PAUL LOZZA




                              As M&A co-head with Tokyo-based Kentaro Okuda, Novelli aims             Saxon world, we need to place local values and principles front and
                           to build Nomura’s European team and align it with the bank’s lofty         center in our thinking,” he says.  ••
                           ambitions. Nomura, which has ¥30 trillion ($376 billion) in assets
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  • 9. APRIL 2011 INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR 2 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 4 T THE CHARTIST CONTENTS INSIDE II TICKER FIVE QUESTIONS PEOPLE INFOBANK RAINMAKER OPENINGApril 2011 News and views from the world of finance The BoJ’s Masaaki Shirakawa is responding aggressively to the disaster JAPAN and destruction, it of deflation. A number of early last resort but would extend to RALLYING JAPAN was not long before economic omens have been effectively underwriting a share THE CRISIS MAY BE hopes arose that not encouraging, amid the gloom. of the government’s reconstruc- A CATALYST FOR only would Japan be For a start, Bank of Japan tion costs by what amounts to RECOVERY able to rebuild but Governor Masaaki Shirakawa monetizing Tokyo’s debt. that it also would used a massive injection of Even before the earthquake, reap monetary, fiscal liquidity to shore up the coun- the bank had begun stepping TOMOHIRO OHSUMI/BLOOMBERG A silver lining was not what and other economic benefits try’s financial system. Indeed, up its purchases of Japanese anyone expected to find from the disaster, if at far too the sum was so large — ¥40 tril- Government Bonds (JGBs) in the radioactive cloud high a human cost. lion ($495 billion), or close to to prevent a rise in long-term that fanned out from Japan’s As callous as it may sound, one fifth of its balance sheet — yields from further damping Fukushima Daiichi nuclear the catastrophe may have been that it provoked speculation that Japan’s anemic recovery. The plant following March 11’s the catalyst the country needed the central bank’s white-knight pace is now bound to pick up. devastating earthquake and tsu- to galvanize its stagnant econ- role might not be restricted to In addition, the BoJ has nami. And yet, amid all the death omy and escape from decades that of short-term lender of doubled, to ¥10 trillion, its INSTITUTIONALINVESTOR.COM
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APRIL 2011 INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR 2 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 DE II OPENING TICKER FIVE QUESTIONS PEOPLE INFOBANK RAINMAKERS MARKETS THE BUY SID Japan Public Finances Libya’s Saif Gaddafi: Owning the Santa lion Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Monica freeway? could take a stake in bringing back existing program of purchasing the glory of aging LaGuardia Airport. government bonds, real estate To be sure, most sovereign wealth investment trusts and even some funds are prudent, patient investors, and they don’t pursue overt political equity instruments from finan- agendas, says Darrell West, Brook- cial institutions as a way to inject ings’s director of governance stud- liquidity into the economy. ies. “We looked at how they have Other dramatic measures invested,” he says. “They generally are being contemplated to help take a long-term perspective and do not seek controlling ownership.” with the recovery. In late March What’s more, they’ve got plenty the newspaper Sankei Shimbun of dough. Sovereign wealth funds reported that Japan’s Ministry control some $4 trillion, and eco- of Finance was considering PUBLIC FINANCES nomic trends suggest some will whether to issue ¥10 trillion SMOOTHING become even wealthier. of JGBs directly to the central THE BUMPS “In our integrated global econ- omy, capital is going to move across bank. However, Finance SWFS MIGHT FIX borders,” points out Gordon Gold- Minister Yoshihiko Noda said U.S. POTHOLES stein, one of the Brookings report’s co- “cautious debate” was needed authors. If the U.S. doesn’t embrace before the MoF asked the cen- Call it pothole politics — debate over how to fix such global investments, he says, other countries will, the U.S.’s infrastructure: failing commuter rail- and they will gain a competitive advantage. tral bank to underwrite govern- ways, crumbling bridges, ancient sewer lines, Nevertheless, the notion of the U.S. welcoming ment bond issues this way. decrepit electrical grids and, of course, pitted roads. national foreign investments as if it were some BoJ officials say in private that But discussion doesn’t get the job done if there’s no neo-emerging-markets country may be hard for they would be reluctant to see money, and there’s no money. So a think tank, the many politicians to stomach. “ a change in the rule barring the Brookings Institution in Washington, has come up Imagine, for instance, if the $70 billion Libyan with a possible solution: Recruit interest from flush sov- Investment Authority, founded by Muammar al- ereign wealth funds like China’s and Abu Dhabi’s. Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, owned a big In a March 11 report, “Rebuilding America: The chunk of the Santa Monica Freeway. (It does, in fact, Role of Foreign Capital and Global Public Investors” own a small portion of the fabled Financial Times.) Japan’s real (brookings.edu), Brookings urges a budget- strapped U.S. to embrace investments from these Sovereign wealth funds represent a highly diverse universe of actors, Goldstein admits: “It GDP growth national piggy banks, particularly for infrastructure would be a mistake to characterize them in will be ‘around projects and new ventures such as green technology. Beijing’s $332 billion China Investment Corp. broad-brush terms.” Not so long ago, nobody would have envisioned multibillion-dollar Chinese zero’ this year could help fund President Obama’s vaunted plans holdings in U.S. Treasury bonds. but will rebound for a high-speed rail network; perhaps the $430 bil- — IMOGEN ROSE-SMITH in 2012. — Hiroshi Watanabe Japan Bank for ” International Cooperation engage in such a transaction.” the yen caused by speculators’ Hiroshi Watanabe, president Shijuro Ogata, a former vice betting that Japan will have to of the Japan Bank for Inter- governor for international rela- repatriate yen assets en masse national Cooperation and a tions at the BoJ, tells Institutional to pay for reconstruction. former vice minister of MoF, bank from underwriting govern- Investor that the bank will in the In multiple ways, then, the expects Japan’s real GDP ment bonds, even in an emer- meantime continue to provide BoJ is escalating its efforts to growth this year to be “around gency. They fear that relaxing additional liquidity by purchas- revive Japan’s battered econ- zero” but to rebound in 2012. the restriction could open the ing public debt, such as JGBs, in omy. The need for such stimu- Yet in another example of door to more general monetiza- the open market along with buy- lus is becoming all the clearer serendipity, the earthquake tion of government debt. ing up private sector commercial as estimates of the disaster’s perversely reminded many Nevertheless, one senior paper, corporate bonds, equities economic impact grow. dispirited Japanese of their JAMAL NASRALLAH/BLOOMBERG central banker, who insisted on and other instruments. The chief problem is the country’s continuing impor- anonymity, did indicate that the On top of all this, the bank loss of electric power caused tance to the global economy BoJ might agree to purchase has begun foreign exchange by the partial meltdown of the and especially to Asia’s. Har- proposed earthquake-recovery market intervention to further Fukushima reactor. Rolling uhiko Kuroda, president of bonds from the government as boost liquidity. The Group of power blackouts are likely to the Asian Development Bank, a “very, very exceptional case, Seven countries also intervened play havoc with production of describes Japan as the center on the condition that a new law massively in the forex market cars and parts and electronic of “Factory Asia” – a sophis- is enacted, allowing the BoJ to in mid-March to stop a spike in components for many months. ticated, highly integrated pro- INSTITUTIONALINVESTOR.COM
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  • 12. APRIL 2011 INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR 4 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 DE II OPENING TICKER FIVE QUESTIONS PEOPLE INFOBANK RAINMAKERS MARKETS THE BUY SID Japan Global Investing duction and distribution system civil war that led current investors in Petro- that accounts for Asia’s vast output to independence China, whose parent, China of goods — and which can’t func- but also gave rise National Petroleum Corp. tion without Japan. to a humanitarian (CNPC), does extensive Another surprise boon of crisis in Sudan’s business with the corrupt Japan’s misfortunes was Tokyo’s western region regime of Bashir, which has willingness to embrace help from of Darfur. Will been accused of genocide. China and Russia. Japan has been this hopeful new TIAA-CREF divested its on the brink of confrontation with peace hold? Does shares in PetroChina at the both of these countries over ter- Southern Sudan end of 2009 after it failed to ritorial disputes, so this bodes well have a future as a persuade CNPC to stop sub- for their future relations. Most of Sudan’s oil sovereign state? sidizing the violent activities of is in the south, but “ None of this muted good news An uneasy the Bashir government. “Our the north controls is to imply that recovering from distribution truce in the civil the calamity will be anything war has held since but a struggle. As of late March, GLOBAL INVESTING 2005, although the toll in dead and missing SUDAN CHANGE rebels in Darfur Investors ASSESSING THE should ask approached 27,000; the human agreed to their lat- cost will always be incalculable. FREE SOUTH est cease-fire only Tokyo puts the price tag for the last year. More- if they can damage at $200 billion, or twice over, the under- influence a that of the Kobe (Great Hanshin) earthquake in 1995. And Japan This July south Sudan is to become the Republic lying causes of the conflict remain sensitive: the south’s oil corporation. embarks upon this epic effort of Southern Sudan. In riches (and the north’s relative ‘If the answer with a debt load twice the size of January’s plebiscite nearly 99 lack thereof) and ancient tribal is no, then it’s its GDP and an economy that has been constantly on the verge of percent of southern Sudanese voted to secede from the north. rivalries and religious schisms. Freedom for the south could time to divest. ’ — David Raad ” stalling for many years. Sudan’s president, Omar exacerbate old tensions. Ex-diplomat Still, the Japanese have a prov- Hassan al-Bashir, has pledged The revolution casts a erb: Fall down seven times, get up to abide by the outcome. spotlight on the role played in eight. Perhaps the horrible events The creation of Southern Sudan by Western financial of March 11 will provide the impe- Sudan will conclude, symboli- firms, including Franklin sense after making this effort tus for that eighth time. cally as well as formally, more Templeton, JPMorgan and not having any success — Anthony Rowley than five decades of bloody Chase and Vanguard — all was that this wasn’t a way to leverage our ownership in the company,” says John Wilson, director of corporate gover- COMPENSATION nance for TIAA-CREF. PAY CHECK GO EAST, YOUNG BANKER Still, he adds that even with The British government’s push for banks to be more forthcoming about top earners’ pay is an independent south, the meant to shame them into being more circumspect about compensation. Paradoxically, the 2010 comp figures being released under the disclosure rules show that top U.K.-based same dubious financial links bankers earn significantly less than their foreign counterparts, especially in Asian markets. will remain between the oil HSBC awarded an elite group of 186 London-based “code staff” (that is, top traders, business and the government bankers and other nonsenior managers) an average of $1.22 million in salary and bonuses in Khartoum. “I don’t think OIL WORKERS: TREVOR SNAPP/BLOOMBERG; for 2010. By contrast, the bank typically paid members of an equivalent coterie of 280 star the fundamental factors of staffers outside the U.K. $1.6 million. HSBC is not unique in being extra generous to its Asia- based employees. Thomson Reuters confirms that the trend is widespread. our decision have changed HSBC CEO Stuart Gulliver was asked point-blank by a reporter: “Why do you pay people very much,” Wilson says. Sig- in the U.K. less? Is it because the market is hotter in Asia?” Gulliver’s response: “[Asian] econo- nificantly, the West’s broad mies are growing at a rapid pace, and that is where the pressure is on compensation.” PAPER: RICHARD MEGNA sanctions against Western oil It’s no wonder that U.K.-based bankers, feeling unloved and underpaid as well as over- companies doing business in taxed, migrate eastward. Christian Brun, a Hong Kong–based partner of recruiter Wellesley Partners, says he’s been steadily receiving CVs from bankers in London and New York seek- Sudan will remain in place ing work in Asia. The catch? Unless a banker has relevant expertise — say, in Hong Kong for now. IPOs (see page 58) — it can be tough to find a job in Asia. — CHRISTOPHER ALESSI Fidelity, too, essentially divested its PetroChina INSTITUTIONALINVESTOR.COM
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  • 14. APRIL 2011 INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR 6 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 KER OPENING FIVE QUESTIONS PEOPLE INFOBANK RAINMAKERS MARKETS THE BUY SIDE GLOB Global Investing holdings, perhaps in part because of a lobbying campaign by Investors Against Genocide, but the fact that it doesn’t really take care of too-big-to- 3 Can Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac be fixed? My idea is to get the govern- a privately funded Boston non- fail sets the stage ment out of the mortgage profit. IAG head Eric Cohen tes- in a sense for the business, not create a hybrid tified to Congress in November next crisis. Con- where you socialize risk to the that stricter transparency laws gress didn’t do the taxpayer and privatize gains to are needed so that investors can necessary work the stockholders. That is what readily discern whether their [and] hold the happened. We certainly don’t investments are, as he puts it to necessary hear- want to re-create something II, “genocide-free.” ings on the front like the Fannie and Freddie Fidelity sold all but a fraction end in the bank- mode, which failed. The of its shares in 2007 and today ing committees of administration hasn’t got any holds a “negligible percentage,” the Senate or the real idea where they want to “ according to a spokesman. On House to write a go. We need leadership from FIVE QUESTIONS FOR well-thought-out the administration. They are RICHARD law. Dodd- supposed to propose things, SHELBY Frank abdicates but I’ve seen no proposals Are we KNOCKING DODD- responsibility by worthy of the name yet. FRANK REGS comfortable Congress to regu- owning this company? lators. Regulators have failed in the Alabama’s Richard Shelby, past, and now they are in the 4 You oppose the nomination of Nobel Prize–winning MIT economist — John Wilson the ranking Republican on process of bringing out scores Peter Diamond to the Fed ” TIAA-CREF the U.S. Senate Banking of rules and regulations. We are board because you say it Committee, is outspoken in his going down the wrong road. already has too many criticism of the Obama admin- Keynesians. Didn’t Keynesians its web site the firm defends the principle of remaining invested istration’s financial policies. Yet his support for Big Banking 2 What’s the worst thing about the law? is by no means automatic. He The biggest flaw is a consumer save the world in the Great Depression? What we need are people on in a company as potentially the opposed George W. Bush’s agency [the Consumer Finan- the Fed who know something best way to influence it to mend bank bailout bill, objected to cial Protection Bureau] that is about monetary policy and its ways. financial deregulation in 1999 self-funding, accountable to no are mainline economists, not Former diplomat David Raad, — the only Senate Republi- one, gets about 10 percent of behavioral economists and who represented the U.S. in the can to do so — and resisted the Federal Reserve’s operat- champions of bailouts. Look negotiations that led to Sudan’s letting federally insured banks ing budget and is not subject at the Fed’s balance sheet. peace agreement, says investors sell insurance. He also was to the appropriations process It’s the largest in history, and should ask themselves if their par- early to fault Fannie Mae and of Congress. That is horrible. it’s going to be interesting ticipation can positively affect the Freddie Mac. I oppose a lot of the policies of how they deleverage. A lot of behavior of a corporation. “If the The senator, who has Elizabeth Warren [President commodities are indicative answer is no,” he says, “then it’s lately focused his wrath on Obama has put Warren in of future inflation, and once probably time to divest.” the Dodd-Frank Act, spoke charge of establishing the inflation takes off, it’s hard to TIAA-CREF is taking a wait- recently with Institutional consumer agency but has not bring back price stability. and-see approach to whether the Investor Senior Contributing yet nominated her to head it]. south’s independence justifies tak- ing another look at PetroChina. Writer Charles Wallace. This is a power grab if you have ever seen one in the Congress. 5 Some say the Republican Party is too close to banks. “We’re going to be asking the 1 Will Dodd-Frank prevent She would be the queen or the We’re not close at all. I’m JOSHUA ROBERTS/BLOOMBERG same questions we asked before,” the next banking crisis? czar of all. She would be telling certainly not close. I don’t own Wilson says. “Are we comfortable Absolutely not. Dodd-Frank financial institutions how to one share of stock in banks. But owning this company, and do we is flawed. It has probably insti- run, what products to offer, a good, solid bank that is well feel like we’re going to be asking tutionalized to some extent the everything. We don’t even capitalized but not overregu- our participants to profit from too-big-to-fail doctrine, and know the scope of her authority lated will create jobs. Who is genocide by doing so?” that is not good. Many things or what she would hope would going to create them if we don’t — Katie Gilbert in Dodd-Frank are problems, be her authority. have a fluid banking system? INSTITUTIONALINVESTOR.COM
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  • 16. APRIL 2011 INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR 8 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 IONS OPENING PEOPLE INFOBANK RAINMAKERS MARKETS THE BUY SIDE GLOBAL SECURITIES S PEOPLE BOFA TAPS AMBANI; HEFNER GOES PRIVATE; PAULSON PLUGS PROPERTY MUKESH AMBANI GIVES BOFA BREADTH For a bank that operates in 150 countries and traces its roots to an institution founded by an immigrant to lend to other immigrants, Bank of America has been pretty provincial in its selection of board members. Only now is BofA getting around to naming its first for- eign director. But the choice should do a lot to make up for the oversight: Mukesh Ambani, 53, the chairman, managing director and significant owner of India’s biggest private sector company, Reliance Industries, an energy and materials conglomerate with a $75 billion market cap. (Mukesh’s brother, Anil, wound up with the telecom, raging bull. In his latest movie, tion, manipulation and old- Mubarak gave that obstinate financial services and enter- Limitless, De Niro, 67, takes an fashioned bribery. speech saying he wasn’t going tainment side of the family almost professorial role (think — Franziska Scheven to step down.” business after their father, of it as Professor Godfather Fattouh was impressed Dhirubhai, died in 2002.) teaching Gordon Gekko), AHMED FATTOUH that the demonstrators never Mukesh Ambani, a explaining through his own TALKS TAHRIR lost their “peaceful and nonvio- Stanford B-school dropout, experiences how Wall Street Once protesters in Cairo’s lent posture.” He told the crowd may be able to give BofA some climbers can make the ascent Tahrir Square discovered they had the support of the personal advice on a subject in a postcrash, Fed-regulated that Ahmed Fattouh speaks Egyptian diaspora in America. where it could use a tutorial: environment. Some of the Arabic and English, they Born in Egypt but raised mortgage financing. You see, comments sound timeless, asked the Egyptian-American in Connecticut (his family he owns the world’s most and some downright mafia- money manager to give them emigrated in 1978), Fattouh expensive house, the 27-story esque. “Climb up the greasy a speech. has kept up with Egyptian “Antilia” in Mumbai, which little rungs on the ladder,” De “I had gone over to politics; his great grandfather cost about $1 billion. Niro, who plays a corporate observe what was going on,” and grandfather were pre- AMBANI: PANKAJ NANGIA/BLOOMBERG; DE NIRO: RON SACHS/VIA BLOOMBERG — Niraj Bhatt raider, says to an ambitious says Fattouh, 37, who runs revolutionary party leaders. colleague who absorbs mental $200 million New York City Fattouh is optimistic, albeit ROBERT DE NIRO, powers by swallowing a pill; emerging-markets invest- wary of the future. “No matter GODFATHER GEKKO marry “the girl with the right ment firm Globalist Capital what happens,” he says, “we Actor Robert De Niro father”; and threaten, bribe Management.“I felt drawn to have begun a process that at has played a Machiavellian and charm your way into the notion of change. I didn’t the end of the day is creating mafia boss, a crooked Casino that “seat at the table.” Not expect to be speaking to tens of a living, beating constitution,” operator, a gun-wielding taxi only is greed good, as Gekko thousands of people. And I was the foundation of any robust driver, a master thief and a would have it, so are extor- on stage just before [Hosni] democracy, which, Fattouh INSTITUTIONALINVESTOR.COM
  • 17. 2 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2 SERVICES FOREIGN EXCHANGE DONE DEALS ALTERNATIVES GREEN SHOOTS CEO INTERVIEW COV Counterclockwise from top left: BofA director Ambani; Professor Godfather De Niro, Tahrir Square GOING GAGA FOR speaker Fattouh; ROBIN HOOD private person As this spring’s annual round Hefner; house seller Paulson; hedgie of hedge fund charity parties charmer Lady Gaga gets under way, the must-have ticket, as usual, is the Robin Hood Foundation’s do. To be held May 9 at New York’s Jacob Javits Convention Center, the gala is the alternative- investments answer to Lady Astor’s ball. The lavish party is always aswarm with hedge fund blue bloods, not least the members of the foundation’s board, including Robin Hood co-founder Paul Tudor Jones, CEO of Tudor Investment Corp.; board chair Lee Ainslie, managing partner of Maverick Capital, and co–vice chair Dan- iel Och, managing member of Och-Ziff Capital Management. Founded in 1988 to combat poverty in New York City, the foundation has become a phil- anthropic tour de force, giving away tens of millions in grants each year. In 2008 the gala raised $60 million from its din- hopes, will lead to an infusion of of Rizvi, proclaims that he is Paulson, a skeptic on the ner and auction. Typical prizes: foreign investment. — I.R.-S. pleased to be teaming up with strength of the dollar, told inves- enjoying a one-on-one lunch the author of the Playboy phi- tors he’s enthusiastic about with a star hedge fund manager HUGH HEFNER’S losophy as the “legendary brand hard assets like houses, includ- or having a classroom named PRIVATE AFFAIR enters a new chapter.” Never- ing second homes, and gold. after you. The fundraiser has Private is not a word one would theless, Kohn will want to be Paulson, 55, knows some- become famous not only for the ordinarily associate with Hugh paid back in more than pruri- thing of the vicissitudes of the amount of money it collects but Hefner, whose life has always ent interest. —F .S. second-home market. Back also for its A-list entertainment. been an open magazine, with in 2006 he bought a weekend Last year Stevie Wonder did the a foldout in the middle. But JOHN PAULSON’S home in Southampton for honors, and the year before that the octogenarian founder and HARD ASSETS about $13 million. When he it was the Black Eyed Peas. personification of Playboy He made his name and tried to unload it after buying an Still, this year’s featured per- LADY GAGA: BLOOMBERG NEWS; HEFNER AND HARRIS: Enterprises is taking his likewise fortune brilliantly shorting even bigger place, he got gored former is truly out of this world: aging empire of clubs and resorts the housing market in 2007, on his Ox Pasture Road pur- Lady Gaga. A one-time denizen WIREIMAGE; PAULSON: JIN LEE/BLOOMBERG private with financing from pri- precrash. But now John chase, taking a $3 million loss. of the City’s Lower East side, vate equity firm Rizvi Traverse Paulson, founder of $30 bil- But for Paulson that was Gaga, 25, who made $60 million Management and invest- lion hedge fund firm Paulson just the cost of doing busi- last year, is of course known for ment bank Jefferies. Despite & Co., tells investors to look at ness. His new weekend digs, provocative outfits and even Playboy’s dwindling readership real estate, buy a house or two, a Southampton waterfront more provocative behavior. and tough competition from and don’t hesitate to take out estate called Old Trees, cost At the Grammy Awards, she raunchier publications and the an extra mortgage. him $41.3 million in 2008, emerged from an egg. Indeed, anything-goes Internet, Hefner At a conference last month pocket change for the man who Gaga and top hedge fund man- will remain editor-in-chief. hosted by fund of hedge funds made billions betting correctly agers have this in common: out- Ben Kohn, managing director manager EnTrust Capital, against subprime. — I.R.-S. landish performance. — I.R.-S. INSTITUTIONALINVESTOR.COM
  • 18. APRIL 2011 INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 6 OPLE OPENING INFOBANK RAINMAKERS MARKETS THE BUY SIDE GLOBAL SECURITIES SERVICES INFOBANK • THOUGHT EXPLAINING THE Two forces are rapidly shifting WAGE GAP; PAULSON the quality of jobs, reshaping the VS. GOLDMAN; CIVILIZATION’S distribution of earnings and job KILLER APPS opportunities, and redefining gender roles. Job opportunities are increasingly concentrated in high-skill, high-wage jobs and Given the rapid market rise ... and political in low-skill, low-wage jobs; and, tensions in the Middle East, I do not wish to be responsible to limited partners through another possible market crisis. reversing a gender gap, women’s — Carl Icahn, giving back money to investors rising educational attainment [contrasts with] men’s stagnating educational • NUMBERS GAME 3 2 , 5 00 attainment. — MIT economist David Autor, “U.S. Labor Market Challenges over the Longer Term” (dautor@mit.edu) • 1 20 THAT W THEN AS “Robert Shiller believes that creating a derivatives market for home prices could reduce volatility — and help ensure that any fall in home values takes the HEDGE FUND PAULSON & CO., WITH 120 Countrywide was one of the greatest companies in the history of this country. — Angelo Mozilo, ex-CEO of the mortgage lender in newly released testimony before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission EMPLOYEES, MADE $5.8 BILLION FOR ITS form of a soft landing rather CLIENTS IN SECOND-HALF 2010, OR MORE than a burst bubble.” THAN GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO., WITH ITS — Institutional Investor, 32,500 EMPLOYEES, MADE IN NET PROFITS. April 2006 • WEB SITE TO BEHOLD • WORTH A READ Six killer apps set the West apart. One Asian country after rationaloptimist.com another has now downloaded Evolutionary biologist Matt Ridley makes a levelheaded case for faith in progress. them — competition, Financial Times columnist Samuel Brittan describes Ridley’s most recent book, The Rational modern science, the rule Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, as a “marriage of Adam Smith and Charles Darwin.” That of law and private property Ridley was nonexecutive chairman of Northern Rock, a bank rescued by the British government rights, modern medicine, the in the financial crisis, ensures his perspective is not Panglossian. Ridley on nuclear power: “Even if it were to get as bad as Chernobyl (which it won’t), Fukushima will kill few people, raise consumer society and the work cancer rates only slightly and cause no birth defects. Nuclear energy is pretty harmless, and ethic. — Harvard historian its environmental footprint is minuscule. The problem is it is safe but expensive.” Niall Ferguson in Civilization: The West and the Rest INSTITUTIONALINVESTOR.COM
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  • 21. APRIL 2011 INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 TICKER FIVE QUESTIONS PEOPLE INFOBANK RAINMAKERS MARKETS THE BUY SIDE GLOBAL S CAPITAL I cent market share, according to Dealogic. But it’s 13th and 14th in global and European M&A, respectively, with less than 5 percent of both markets. “We want to use our global platform to take a much greater share of cross-continental deals,” Novelli says. He adds that the bank plans to become “global, narrow and deep,” with a focus on resources, energy and financials. Nomura’s strategy and operations are unaffected by the tragic events in Japan, Novelli says. Still, the father of two faces an uphill battle. This year Nomura has lost several star European bankers who came onboard after it bought some of Lehman Brothers Holdings’ European business in 2008. If anyone is up to the challenge, it’s Novelli, who was born and raised in Rome, where he earned an MSc in engineering from Sapienza – Università di Roma in 1989. Four years later, with a mas- ter’s in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined Merrill Lynch & Co. as an associate in New York. Edward Annunziato, who ran European M&A when Novelli started at Merrill, thinks the rainmaker benefited from his Financial spell in the U.S. At the time Merrill was exporting Ameri- Engineer can capitalism to Europe, which had no history of cross- IT’S AN IMPRESSIVE NUMBER BY ANY STANDARD: DURING Piero Novelli predicts more border deals. Novelli’s ability his 18-year career Piero Novelli has advised on almost $600 billion global deals as Nomura’s to bridge the cultural gap was worth of deals. The new co-head of mergers and acquisitions at co-head of M&A. an asset, says Annunziato, Nomura Holdings must now help steer Japan’s biggest investment BY JAYNE JUNG now chairman of London- bank toward its goal of becoming a global leader in M&A. After a and New York–based hedge two-year break from banking, he’s strongly enthusiastic. “I love the fund administrator GlobeOp M&A business,” says Novelli, 45. “It allows you a latitude of issues, Financial Services. clients, culture and complexities that very few other businesses could Novelli transferred to present to you.” London in 1994, when Novelli joined Nomura’s London office in January. He previously Merrill ranked 12th in M&A for Europe, the Middle East and led M&A at UBS, where his clients included Barcelona-based Gas Africa. He rose to prominence by focusing on consumer products Natural in its €22.5 billion ($28.2 billion) acquisition of fellow Span- and industrials. In a showcase of cultural sensitivity, Novelli advised ish energy provider Unión Fenosa in 2009. In 2007 he advised Italian French automaker Renault on its 1999 alliance with Japan’s almost- energy giant Enel on its €11.1 billion partial takeover of Spain’s bankrupt Nissan Motor Co. When he resigned as head of European Endesa and defended ABN Amro Bank against a successful €71 bil- M&A in 2004 to go to UBS, Merrill had climbed to fifth place. lion bid by Royal Bank of Scotland, Banco Santander and Fortis. At UBS, Novelli moved quickly: By 2007 the Swiss bank had Trained as an engineer, the soccer-loving Italian gets the math jumped from 12th to second in EMEA rankings. He quit UBS for and the politics of cross-border transactions. Take the Endesa deal, personal reasons in late 2009 after taking a sabbatical. a saga of three countries and four companies. Novelli’s UBS team Within five years, Novelli predicts, Nomura can crack the top ten advised not only Gas Natural on its hostile bid for Endesa but also in Asian and European M&A, by deal value and revenues. This global Enel on its winning counterbid with Spanish conglomerate Acciona, citizen is mindful of the rising power of state-owned enterprises.“For after E.On of Germany made a €29.1 billion cash offer. our advice to be valuable to our clients, particularly in the non–Anglo GIAN PAUL LOZZA As M&A co-head with Tokyo-based Kentaro Okuda, Novelli aims Saxon world, we need to place local values and principles front and to build Nomura’s European team and align it with the bank’s lofty center in our thinking,” he says. •• ambitions. Nomura, which has ¥30 trillion ($376 billion) in assets and 27,000 employees, ranks first in Japanese M&A, with a 40.1 per- COMMENT? GO TO BANKING & CAPITAL MARKETS AT INSTITUTIONALINVESTOR.COM INSTITUTIONALINVESTOR.COM