Askew Kabala & Company, Inc. is a privately held middle-market investment banking firm located 30 miles south of the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. Led by a team of sophisticated and seasoned bankers, our firm’s business model places emphasis in serving the best interest of the client. We collaborate with reputable private institutional fund investors, looking to successfully diversify their portfolios by investing in domestic and international enterprises valued between $10 million to $100 million.
Askew Kabala has access to multiple sources of capital, allowing our firm the ability to provide a broad spectrum of institutional financial services in the following areas: mergers and acquisitions, private debt and equity placements, seed capital,
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Askew Kabala’s goal is to continue to broaden our firm’s global reach and leverage our investment banking expertise within the Latin marketplace. As an established investment banking operation with access to the U.S. capital markets, we are confident our firm will have an accepting and interested number of prospective clients.
Uruguay is a small country located in the southeastern region of South America. The total population is approximately 3.3 million and about half of the citizens live in the capital, Montevideo, or the surrounding metropolitan area. Uruguay has a strong free market economy with a well-educated workforce. According to a recent report published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Uruguay has been economically stable for the past decade. The government provides a business-friendly climate to attract various sources of foreign
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Our entry into Uruguay originated from one of our Managing Directors who specializes in the Latin American market. He spent over ten years operating multiple successful businesses in the region while building strong relationships with prominent business professionals over the course of his career. The designated Managing Director devoted time in-country to become acquainted with the business environment and any competition our firm may have. In addition, we have done presentations to potential clients and “centers of influence” to determine if the financial services we offer has a market place and can be accepted at our fee structure. Once our research and analysis was concluded, we felt well-prepared to move forward with our expansion
Jim’s responsibility in Tanzania is to invest for financial, social and environmental value for each client. By giving KiraFlour the loan, Jim would be creating financial value for the company’s stakeholders, while creating social and environmental problems...
Major places like Peru Ecuador. And Bolivia have major industries such as food processing, mining, wood products, textiles, petroleum, and more. Their major agricultural products would be cacao, balsa wood, shrimp, cotton, sugarcane, and more. (Doc B)Some more major places in South America in South America like Chile and Argentina make most of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and employ over half of the population. They produce grains, fruits such as grapes, and beef cattle, (Doc C) South Americas history many interesting types of civilizations like Aztec of around A.D. 1200- A.D 1521. (Doc 1) South America has some amazing features but also has a downside. From the 1950’s to now more people live in urban areas rather than rural areas unlike 1950 with most of the population living in rural areas. (Doc D) Today in Brazil, one of the largest economies in the world, there is a very large gap between the rich and the poor. Government is trying to build a bridge between the gap but this is hard knowing that 2% of the population are higher class. (Doc E) Around the Amazon River there is forest. But deforestation is making all this go away based on a survey taken in 2000-2005, Most of it is caused by Cattle Ranches. About 35% is taken up by small-scale, subsistence agriculture, The rest taken up by fires, urbanization construction, logging and large scale commercial agriculture. (Doc
The private equity funds are heavily focused on alternative energy, clean technology and healthcare. The Willamette University Endowment has direct primary exposure to these sectors through the Cadent Energy Fund, TCW European Clean Energy Fund and Pinnacle Ventures Equity Fund. These three funds are approximately 30% of Willamette’s committed capital, and do not include indirect and secondary exposure to these industries through the other seven fund-of-funds. Overall, the portfolio has a heavy concentration in the alternative and clean energy sectors. This focus is also a recurring theme in the fund-of-funds. In addition, there is minimal exposure to consumer staples, financial, industrials and materials.
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Kao Ly Moua is a graduate at University of Utah major in Nursing and minor in Dental Hygiene. Kao Ly’s minor in Dental Hygiene is still in progress and she is working on her associate 's degree. Kao Ly grew up in a small town called Fillmore, Utah with a population of 2,492 people. Kao Ly has many talents and to care about others was her main passion to help those in needs. Kao Ly is a now a RN at LDS Hospital located in Salt Lake City, Utah and hope to have people admire her work in the nursing field for future nurses.
Overall, Target is financially stable and it has the capacity to invest in an international expansion project. Also as we examined, Panama its currently in a position of economic growth, and embraces foreign investment. Even though the American culture is different from the Panamanian culture, we are confident that with the recommendations, Target will be able to succeed in Panama. Specially, if they hire the local legal and marketing team, which will help them infiltrate the market and use their business model as a competitive advantage.
Bianchi, C. & Ostale, E. (2006). Lessons learned from unsuccessful internationalization attempts: Examples of multinational retailers in Chile. Retrieved January 11, 2011, from http://www.carlospitta.com/Courses/Gestion%20Financiera%20Internacional/Cases/Failed%20retail%20attempts%20in%20Chile.pdf
Brazil is both the largest and most populous country in South America. It is the 5th largest country worldwide in terms of both area (more than 8.5 Mio. km2 ) and habitants (appr. 190 million). The largest city is Sao Paulo which is simultaneously the country's capital; official language is Portuguese. According to the WorldBank classification for countries, Brazil - with a GDP of 1,5 bn. US $ in 2005 and a per capita GPD of appr. 8.500 US - can be considered as an upper middle income country and therefore classified as an industrializing country, aligned with the classification as one of the big emerging markets (BEM) next to Argentina and Mexico. Per capita income is constantly increasing as well as literacy rate (current illiteracy rate 8%). Due to its high population rate (large labour pool), its vast natural resources and its geographical position in the centre of South America, it bears enormous growth potential in the near future. Aligned with an increasing currency stability, international companies have heavily invested in Brazil during the past decade. According to CIA World Factbook, Brazil has the 11th largest PPP in 2004 worldwide and today has a well established middle income economy with wide variations in levels of development. Thus, today Brazil is South America's leading economic power and a regional leader.
In 2009, a sale for 51% of stake in Satyam was put through a global bidding process. Tech Mahindra won the bid, paying 17.57 billion rupees for a 31% stake.
Uruguay republic, in east central South America, is the second smallest country on the continent. This country is bounded on the north by Brazil, on the east by Brazil and the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean and the Río de la Plata, and on the west by Argentina. The Uruguay River forms Uruguay's western boundary in full. Uruguay's land mass in whole is a small 176,215 sq km. Uruguay's capital city is Montevideo which is the main port, and economic center of the country. The currency of Uruguay is the peso uruguayos (7.97 peso uruguayos equal U.S.$1). This country's main sport entertainment is soccer.
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Artemis. "Alternative Capital the Biggest Challenge for Traditional Reinsurers: Moody’s."Www.artemis.bm. Artemis, 5 Sept. 2013. Web. 09 Nov. 2013. .
The modern Islamic Finance industry is young, its timeline begin only a few decades ago. However, islamic finance is involving rapidly and continues to expend to serve a growing population of muslims as well as conventional.
Chile was an early starter on opening trade and financial services in the early seventies. (Tokman, 2010)
There are a number of features or principles which are attributable to the Mudarabah contract. These include nature of contract, capital, profit sharing right and treatment of losses.