GLOBAL - TCW's purchase of Metropolitan West Asset Management may be a predictor of things to come as independent firms will drive merger and acquisition activity in 2010, investment bank Jefferies said.
Asset management M&A activity in 2009 was driven by maga-deals and bank divestitures. For example, nine transactions involved firms with over US$100bn in assets under management. In the fourth q...
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