并购贷款能否激活中国并购市场

2009年1月6日,中国工商银行北京分行、北京首创股份、北京产权交易所等三方在京举行"并购贷款合作框架协议"签字仪式。至此,国内首笔并购贷款合作意向终由口头热议变成"白纸黑字"。     

首创“水”里淘金

2002年底时首创股份(600008)发布公告，称公司决定变更募集资金投向，终止投资北京京开高速公路项目，转而与北京排水集团和法国威望迪合作投资两个水务项目。业界认为，     

首创:打造水务市场新模式

建设生态文明是当前社会各界都十分关注并致力于实现的目标,水环境治理是其中非常重要的一部分。水资源的日趋匮乏已成为影响各国经济发展和社会安定的战略性问题,快速发展的工业、农业和增长的人口等因素造成了我国日益严峻的用水短缺,对中国的可持续发展提出了严峻的挑战。因此,21世纪被称为“水的世纪”。而被称为中国领跑城市水业投资的明星企业——首创股份则在这一领域作出了成功的示范,自上市以后的8年来,首创股份专注于城市供水和污水处理两大领域,致力于满足人类对洁净用水和清新环境的渴望,利用其强大的资源优势和融资能力带领了中国水务市场的发展,打造了水务市场的新型运作模式,为社会的可持续发展做出了贡献。那么,首创股份是如何瞄准水务市场的？又是如何运作的？其运作模式有什么特色之处？     

并购贷款能否激活中国并购市场

2009年1月6日．中国工商银行北京分行、北京首创股份、北京产权交易所等三方在京举行“并购贷款合作框架协议”签字仪式。至此，国内首笔并购贷款合作意向终由口头热议变成“白纸黑字”。     

馅饼，还是陷阱透视外资板块的市场机会和潜在风险

在我国加入WTO前后，沪深两市已有几十家上市公司披露携手外商企业的事项，如法国阿尔卡特与上海贝尔合资组建上海贝尔阿尔卡特，并且在新公司中占有50％加1股的股权；格林柯尔以占科龙电器公司总股本20．6％的法人股成为第一大股东：ST东北电拟出资近570万美元与位列世界500强的法国阿尔斯通公司（中国）投资有限公司合资发起成立东北电阿尔斯通互感器有限公司；首创股份与国际上规模最大的水务公司之一－－威望迪水务有限公司（Vivend Water) 签署了战略合作协议，双方将共同投资，建设，经营国内城市基础设施项目；美菱电器决定与德国西格玛电子有限公司等共同投资成立美菱西格玛电器有限公司……近两个月来，上市公司与国际知名企业的合作成为证券市场一道最亮丽的风景。     

一周投资信息

股权转让华东科技(000727):日前发布公告称,公司拟1元受让南京华东赛斯真空材料有限责任公司31.11%的股权。首创股份(600008):日前发布公告称,在产交所挂牌转让所持北京信息基础设施建设股份有限公司12.92%股权,上述股份转让     

PPP资产证券化启动在即

多家上市公司参与座谈会 除国家发改委、证监会、基金业协会与会外,PPP项目资产证券化座谈会同时邀请了包括中国建筑、中国中铁、中国交建等央企,首都公路发展集团、首创股份、北京控股等国有企业和中法水务等外资企业。据悉,参会企业对PPP项目资产证券化评价颇高,并表示会积极参与。     

媒体聚焦

工行启动国内首笔并购贷款1月6日,工商银行北京分行、北京首创股份有限公司和北京产权交易所举行三方关于并购贷款合作框架协议的签字仪式,这标志着中国首笔并购贷款正式启动。并购贷款是指银行针对企业并购提供的专项贷款,银监会2008年12月发布的《商业银行并购贷款风险管理指引》,开始允许符合条件的商业银行开办并购贷款业务。该业务的启动,     

把脉北京国企改革

从投资建议来看。我们认为将北京国企改革的标的从北京首都城市定位叠加几大试点方向来选择收益标的。第一关注已整体上市的金隅集团与首开集团国企改革情况；第二关注竞争领域国企改革的投资机会，建议关注首商股份．王府井、北京城乡等；第三关注城市公用事业和民生领域的投资机会。推荐首创股份、中关村；第四关注区县级国企改革进度，推荐顺鑫农业。     

浅谈A股和H股水务上市公司BOT业务会计处理差异

BOT融资模式是一种国际通行的融资方式,近年来在我国污水处理、垃圾处理、桥梁等城市基础设施领域得到了广泛应用。由于特许经营协议中对项目收费方式和金额约定不一,对于BOT项目业务可采取不同的会计处理方式,导致在资产计量、损益、财务指标的表现差别较大。本文首先介绍了BOT业务的起源和含义;其次综合比较了国内会计准则和国际会计准则对BOT业务会计处理规定,以一个污水处理特许经营协议为案例进行了实证研究,分析了采用金融资产和无形资产等不同会计处理模式对企业财务报表和主要财务指标的影响。同时选取了6家国内水务上市公司(首创股份等)和1家H股水务上市公司(北控水务),分析2012年报数据,力求展示不同会计处理模式所产生的财务影响。     

升值之言该如何听

自今年6月中国暗示将松动人民币汇率以来,人民币升值幅度仅为0．4％,这大大低于华盛顿的期待,因此,中美两国的关系日益紧张起来。随着失业率的膨胀,以及选举年即将到来,美国国会再一次将人民币汇率摆上了议事日程：9月6日,华盛顿两位高官为缓和中美关系前往北京,就人民币及其他重要问题进行高峰会晤,以期达成共识。     

商业银行如何应对利率市场化

最近,中国央行的利率政策传达出利率市场化步伐骤然加快的信号,沉浸在央行利率管制环境下的国内商业银行突然感到"利基"竞争的性质发生了重要变化。那么.在利率市场化环境下商业银行应采取怎样的风险偏好,才能使贷款定价覆盖风险溢价?这是银行管理者必须回答的问题。     

When to ally & when to acquire

Acquisitions and alliances are two pillars of growth strategy. But most businesses don't treat the two as alternative mechanisms for attaining goals. Consequently, companies take over firms they should have collaborated with, and vice versa, and make a mess of both acquisitions and alliances. It's easy to see why companies don't weigh the relative merits and demerits of acquisitions and alliances before choosing horses for courses. The two strategies differ in many ways: Acquisition deals are competitive, based on market prices, and risky; alliances are cooperative, negotiated, and not so risky. Companies habitually deploy acquisitions to increase scale or cut costs and use partnerships to enter new markets, customer segments, and regions. Moreover, a company's initial experiences often turn into blinders. If the firm pulls off an alliance or two, it tends to enter into alliances even when circumstances demand acquisitions. Organizational barriers also stand in the way. In many companies, an M&A group, which reports to the finance head, handles acquisitions, while a separate business development unit looks after alliances. The two teams work out of different locations, jealously guard turf, and, in effect, prevent companies from comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the strategies. But companies could improve their results, the authors argue, if they compared the two strategies to determine which is best suited to the situation at hand. Firms such as Cisco that use acquisitions and alliances appropriately grow faster than rivals do. The authors provide a framework to help organizations systematically decide between acquisition and alliance by analyzing three sets of factors: the resources and synergies they desire, the marketplace they compete in, and their competencies at collaborating.     

How to Tie Equity Compensation to Long-Term Results

Companies, investors, and regulators around the world are now seeking to tie executives' payoffs to long-term results and avoid rewarding executives for short-term gains. Focusing on equity-based compensation, the primary component of top executives' pay, the authors analyze how such compensation should best be structured to provide executives with incentives to focus on long-term value creation.
To improve the link between equity compensation and long-term results, the authors recommend that executives be prevented from unwinding their equity incentives for a significant time period after vesting. At the same time, however, the authors suggest that it would be counterproductive to require that executives hold their equity incentives until retirement, as some have proposed. Instead, the authors recommend that companies adopt a combination of "grant-based" and "aggregate" limitations on the unwinding of equity incentives.
Grant-based limitations would allow executives to unwind the equity incentives associated with a particular grant only gradually after vesting, according to a fixed, pre-specified schedule put in place at the time of the grant. Aggregate limitations on unwinding would prevent an executive from unloading more than a specified fraction of the executive's freely disposable equity incentives in any given year.
Finally, the authors emphasize the need for effective limitations on executives' use of hedging and derivative transactions that would weaken the connection between executive payoffs and long-term stock values that a well-designed equity arrangement should produce.     

NYSE execution quality subsequent to migration to hybrid

In October 2006, the NYSE began rolling-out phase three of a four-phase plan initiate its new Hybrid trading mechanism. The results show that this new trading platform introduced a much larger proportion of electronic transactions relative to floor auction transactions. This migration to electronic transactions is further evidenced by a mirror shift in price discovery from floor trades to trades marked for automatic electronic execution. In addition, the move to Hybrid trading introduced a significant decrease in inventory control costs, as well as a noticeable increase in trade persistence. Finally, the new trading platform has increased the speed with which orders are met, and has also decreased the proportion of executed shares which receive price improvement.

How to stop the race to the bottom

Standard tax multipliers are a widespread feature of fiscal equalization systems. A simple theoretical model shows that actual tax multipliers respond positively to changes in standard tax multipliers. This theoretical prediction is tested empirically using data on municipalities in Germany. A quasi-experiment in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is exploited to identify the incentive effect. The empirical results confirm that local business tax policy is shaped by standard tax multipliers. They provide a straightforward practical tool to avoid a race to the bottom in local business tax rates.