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The Global Investor, our financial newsletter
  November 2002 - Issue 11 Previous Issues  

The Global Investor is a monthly newsletter that covers global investment opportunities and insurance for the expatriate community. This monthly newsletter's goal is to inform the reader of what can and cannot be done in the investment arena when living and working in a foreign country. Whether it's personal pension plans or disability insurance to protect your income - Global Investments has the expertise to handle all the expatriate investors' needs.


OOB MOVIE PORTFOLIO FUND SO FAR...
(Please see also the newsletters from
August & September 2002)

We're now taking the biggest step yet for the fund: we're making the fund's first investment into PME, our production partner in Hollywood. Our commitment with them is for 21 pictures over 7 years but the first slice of investment buys an equity stake in PME. Therefore for only a small up-front commitment this week (a token $ 100 k), the Movie Portfolio Fund is taking ownership of a 5% stake in PME, valued at $7.5 million. This is on account of further business, but is a big show of faith from both parties, and means that the fund is now sitting pretty with real assets on board. The next 5% will come in when we've contributed $7.5 million.

Also, the MPF gets a Director position with PME, which I'll be taking up on behalf of the fund.

Our European sales efforts are coming along well. SilverScreen, our sales agents, are pre-selling to banks and other institutions and their target for 2003/4 is $ 20 - 50 million. We met in London last week, they's shaping up for FSA registration in the UK, and their sponsor bank has committed not only to sell our fund via their network but also to invest directly into it. 

We've also spoken about a potential securitisation deal on future fund revenues, to bring in a large sum instantly to the fund as part of a wider deal. There's a lot of stuff in the pipeline here, building up to a January launch in Europe.

Movie Portfolio Fund

As regards PME, as we move forward we aim to bring you more "movie news" and other info that you can give to clients. We're committed to doing a PR launch with PME in Hollywood early next year to announce the MPF and this will be good for business. We've now got one of the top financial PR
agencies in London on the job pre-marketing the fund in that market as well.

PME had 2 movies out in 2002, Big Trouble and Like Mike. Like Mike did around $55 million in the US alone and is released in Europe in early 2003 - we'll be co-ordinating some MPF PR with PME movie releases as they come out. PME now has 4 movies in development with DreamWorks, Disney,
Paramount and Fox. As these move into casting we'll let you know who's in them so that you can broadcast to your clients - these will all be high-profile movies.

Please contact Global Investments for more information
on Tel. (+66-2) 662-2009 or e-mail at info@globalinv.org.


 
 
 
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