salsanofamily.com

S.F.O. is a family office
based in Panama.

The chairman, Sandro Salsano has several years of experience in living and investing in emerging and frontier markets. He has travelled to more than 100 countries.

He is a graduate from Bocconi University Milan (top 1 p.c.) with an MBA program from University of San Diego California and an Executive program from Harvard Business School.

He started his career in the City of London working with one of Europe’s largest asset management companies, he has also been a shareholder and a partner of the largest investment bank in Ukraine with a stake owned by Goldman Sachs.

The family office has stakes in asset management, financial, food and beverages, chartering and global real estate (hospitality/hotel, commercial, residential and land) companies.

The office is a donor, among others, of Bill Clinton Foundation, Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, Amfar, Nuestro Pequenos Hermanos. Sandro is also the chairman and trustee of the Salsano Shahani foundation he set up with his wife Johanna Shahani.

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Announcement of Investment Success -  Panama Real Estate Opportunities Fund Ltd. ("PREOF")

 

Panama Real Estate Opportunities Fund Ltd. ("PREOF") successfully executed two commercial investments in June in central Panama City: one in Plaza Banco General, the other in Tower BBVA.

The location of the investments are  super prime (Avenida Balboa and Calle 50) in much sought after buildings at the heart of the Panamanian high-end business district.

Sandro Salsano, founding partner of Columbus Frontiers said: "We managed to acquire these offices below market value. These transactions were completed off market. This is due  to our outstanding sourcing capabilities and our broad and deep relationships with local partners. We see tremendous value in Panama real estate, especially in the commercial area. We plan to add more to the portfolio and move quickly when opportunities like these arise."

Please contact us for more information: info@cf-im.com, +507 203 6340

George Soros on The Euro Crisis and Possible Solutions

George Soros on The Euro Crisis and Possible Solutions

QUESTION : The lack of access to credit on equal terms creates an uneven playing field. This is a handicap for different countries and makes it more difficult for them to regain competitiveness. What should be done?

GEORGE SOROS : It is important to recognize that this disadvantage consists of two components. One is the cost of borrowing by the government, and the other is the cost of borrowing by the private sector. Recently, since the Cyprus rescue, the private sector’s disadvantage, particularly for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), increased to crisis proportions. Fortunately, the authorities recognize this. The European Central Bank is discussing the possibility of using its resources to help resolve this problem. And it is very, very important what they come up with. I am hopeful that they will produce a scheme that could make a difference. If you could package the loans to SMEs and refinance them at the ECB on equal terms, that would mean that enterprises south of the Alps would be able to borrow on more or less equal terms with enterprises north of the Alps. That would be a game-changer.

I am sure that this will be resisted on legal grounds. I am not in a position to follow the battle within the ECB from the outside, but what the outcome will have a major influence on the future course of events.

It should not escape your attention that if the ECB succeeded in making credit available on equal terms, it would effectively mean a large-scale mutualization of rather risky debts. Once that happened, it would make sense to mutualize government debts as well. Guarantees have a peculiar feature: the more comprehensive and convincing they are, the less likely they are to be invoked and to result in losses. So the securitization of SME loans could be an indirect route to Eurobonds. It would certainly be a step in that direction. That is why it is bound to be resisted. But success could lead to a positive resolution of the euro crisis.

The U.S Will Default

"For a while, yes, but at some point people will wake up and realize that the U.S. will default through a depreciating currency—in other words, through printing money—or by not paying the interest on the bonds. I don't think the U.S. will stop paying the interest, but printing more money will weaken the currency and produce higher inflation in consumer prices, asset prices and commodity prices. So being in U.S. government bonds will result in losses to investors through currency depreciation."

with Johanna Shahani

Sandro Salsano

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sandro Salsano, venture capitalist, entrepeneur and financier

Sandro Salsano (born 1979) is an Italian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and financier. He is a founding partner of Columbus Frontiers Investment Management, an asset manager focusing on thematic investments with a bias towards frontier markets. ^[1] He is also the chairman of Salsano Family Office. ^[2]

Salsano graduated from Bocconi University in Milan with full honours and an MBA exchange program from the University of San Diego, California. He has donated to theWilliam J. Clinton Foundation.^[3]

References [edit]

1. ^ www.cf-im.com
2. ^ "MUNDO SOCIAL SEPTIEMBRE 2012". Mundosocial.net. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
3. ^ "2009 donors to Clinton foundation". Seattle Times (AP). January 1, 2010. Retrieved March 8, 2013.

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