"Traditional private banking is all about investing liquid assets," says John Zafiriou, who heads the group.
"We are now looking at the towers as national assets," says Francis Nkako, the CEO of the new agency.
"By default, our laws are suited for married couples acquiring assets," says Luigi Rosabianca, a real estate lawyer in Manhattan.
Greece will miss this year's target of €2.6 billion ($3.6 billion) from selling state assets, says Taiped, the privatisation agency.
"Vodafone's problems cannot be solved by disposing of underperforming overseas assets," says Cyrus Mewawalla of Westhall Capital, a stockbroker.
"The biggest thing is the time and effort needed in the creation of the assets," says Volker.
"It's about sweating the existing assets," says Black. "The priority is product and merchandising not fixtures and fittings.
Unit-trust assets now represent only one-eighth of the life industry's total assets, says Arnold Basserabie, head of Fedsure, which owns a big life insurer.
"No investment vehicle should promise greater liquidity than is afforded by its underlying assets," says Howard Marks, boss of Oaktree, a debt fund.Regulators are mindful of all this.
The risk is that by admitting a regime whose president is ambivalent towards democracy, Mercosur devalues one of its biggest assets, says Mr Valladão.
"To bring in much-needed investors, the industry has to have physical assets," says a banker.Nollywood is also distributing its wares more widely.
