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1987 - Year of the shrinking market?

1987 - Year of the shrinking market?

1987 - Year of the shrinking market?

Funds galore for LBO prospects | Tax snags of a global buyout | Europe is the next frontier | Some examples of recent MBOs | UK buyouts grow in complexity | Spawn of an era: specialist firms | Warnings fail to dim LBO dazzle

Funds galore for LBO prospects | Tax snags of a global buyout | Europe is the next frontier | Some examples of recent MBOs | Managers who succeed as bosses | Spawn of an era: specialist firms | Warnings fail to dim LBO dazzle

Tax snags of a global buyout | Europe is the next frontier | Some examples of recent MBOs | UK buyouts grow in complexity | Managers who succeed as bosses | Spawn of an era: specialist firms | Warnings fail to dim LBO dazzle

Funds galore for LBO prospects | Tax snags of a global buyout | Europe is the next frontier | UK buyouts grow in complexity | Managers who succeed as bosses | Spawn of an era: specialist firms | Warnings fail to dim LBO dazzle

FOREIGN BANKS AND SECURITIES HOUSES IN SWITZERLAND

HOW MANY DOLLARS FOR THE FAMILY NAME?

Zaiteku's most visible manifestations are the staggering daily volumes on the Tokyo foreign exchange market - up from an average of $2 billion in 1979 to $48 billion today.

Apart from the surge in new internation equity issues, growing innovation in the way stocks are packaged is the most striking feature of the current Euro-equity scene.

Bowater Industries has had long experience in the capital markets o the world. It issued ADRs in the US some 30 years ago and has been listed in Switzerland for about 20 years, for example. At a recent Euromoney conference in London, Geoffrey Jones, Bowater's treasurer, addressed some of the main questions that companies face when considering an international stock offering or listing. A number of constraining influences are inherent in the security itself The first 'is the domicile of the security or the paper itself. This is the starting point and the one to which the investor has to relate. Is he interested in a security denominated in a particular currency &om a particular country? He then has to decide - if he does invest in a foreign security - what other considerations must be taken into account when making that investment decision. One of' the most significant considerations is taxation.