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Meet Europe's biggest investor: Diethart Breipoh, Allianz

Diethart Breipohl is a modest man. But as finance director of the Allianz insurance group he presides over Dm320 billion of investments, probably the biggest portfolio in Europe. That includes significant stakes in Germany's blue-chip firms, suggesting to some that Allianz is "the spider in the web" of corporate Germany.

January 01, 1997

BANKING

Poll of Polls: Overall results

Poll of Polls: The rise of DMG

January 01, 1997

Poll of Polls 1996: The rise of DMG

Deutsche Morgan Grenfell makes waves in the 1996 poll of polls with a strong performance in underwriting, trading and advisory work. Other names to note for 1997 include the newly formed Chase, the highest climber, as well as ABN Amro and Nomura Securities, all of which move confidently up the ranking. By Rebecca Dobson.

January 01, 1997

BANKING

Baron David's survival strategy

Can Rothschild reinvent itself?t

January 01, 1997

BANKING

A corporate culture but no monastery

Meet Europe's biggest investor: Diethart Breipoh, Allianz

January 01, 1997

BANKING

Floating football's working class

Boca Juniors, Argentina's most famous football club, is to break with its working-class traditions by becoming the first team to list on the local stock market. The club, supported by an estimated half of Argentina's fanatical football fans, last month won authorization from the Buenos Aires stock exchange to launch the Boca Juniors Closed Common Fund, with the aim of raising $20 million to buy a much-needed batch of new players.

January 01, 1997

BANKING

Mexico: The dithering away of the state

After months of delays, the Mexican privatization progamme has sprung back into life. In December, the government raised $1.8 billion from the sale of its northeastern railway line, by far its largest privatization deal since the devaluation of the peso in late 1994. Congress has also dropped its opposition to the sale to foreign investors of a 49% stake in the country's down-stream petrochemicals industry, raising hopes that privatization will speed up in 1997.

January 01, 1997

BANKING

Taking stock of Russian equities

The Russian equity market came of age in 1996. Prices doubled and the range of investors broadened to include some of the world's largest institutional investors. Will the boom continue in 1997? Peter Lee reports.

January 01, 1997

BANKING

VimpelCom comes to the Big Apple

The Russians are here - at last

January 01, 1997

BANKING

India: The strains of success

In their desire to get a head start over each other in India, Wall Street investment banks have forged joint ventures with local partners. Three US banks JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs have adopted this strategy. Surprisingly, all three have agreed to remain minority shareholders in the ventures even though the law permits them a majority holding. Pressures may be building, though, for the US banks to buy out their local partners.

January 01, 1997

The Russians are here - at last

Tight-lipped Russian officials eventually warmed to their task at roadshows worldwide. It was Russia's return to the international capital markets, its first sovereign issue since Tsarist days. For the bankers involved in the $1 billion deal it must often have seemed like trying to resurrect the mammoth. Peter Lee reports on a complicated birth

January 01, 1997

Tykac defies the checks and balances

The near-collapse of Agrobanka, the Czech Republic's fifth-ranked bank, has highlighted the aggressive activities of investment companies such as Pavel Tykac's Motoinvest. Philip Eade reports on the elements of the crisis and the chances that lessons have been learnt from it

January 01, 1997

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