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...client continues to take a litigious turn. Last week, the investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. settled a dispute with the British supermarket group J. Sainsbury over alleged mismanagement of Sainsbury's pension fund. The undisclosed settlement helped Merrill avoid a repeat of its court battle last year with Anglo-Dutch concern Unilever, also over pension fund mismanagement. In that case, Unilever had alleged that returns on its pension fund had trailed the market by an amount larger than was permitted under the terms of its contract with Mercury Asset Management, which was acquired by Merrill in 1997. After almost...
Until recently, calling a european executive Anglo-Saxon was considered a compliment. It meant the manager had a global outlook, was focused on the bottom line and gave top priority to keeping shareholders happy. Lately, however, the term has become an insult, suggesting an egotistical empire builder more interested in expanding the company through acquisitions than in the health of the core business...
...first to come to grief over his Anglo-Saxon ambitions was Jean-Marie Messier, a Frenchman equally at home in New York as in Paris. Messier was forced out as chief executive of entertainment giant Vivendi Universal last month because he ran up huge debts in a spree of expensive media acquisitions, among other sins...
...ruled out the family's selling any of its holdings. "A change of the enterprise strategy was appropriate because of the quick and dramatic changes on the world markets," he said. In other words, the insular, rural German culture of Gütersloh had triumphed over the Anglo-Saxon...
...evaporate en route to court; if Clas-sical Graffiti sells as Batt hopes, the final bill could be €150,000. Both sides might care to ponder Cage's own observation that, "the very practice of music ... is a celebration that we own nothing." THE BOURSE The Steel Deal Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus will buy Brazil's CSN in a $4.3 billion stock and debt swap. The deal moves Corus from sixth to fourth place in global steel production. Pfizer Upsizer The race for pharmaceutical consolidation continued apace as Pfizer announced a $60 billion takeover of Pharmacia. The move solidifies...