Dresdner Bank - Commerzbank International SA

Dresdner Bank Luxembourg S.A. Annual Report 2008
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are advisory services and management of the most varied risks, with simultaneous minimisation of the
time and costs of our contact partners. Requested is our contribution toward consolidating and growing
large client asset portfolios.
Because the requirements of our clients and the resulting solutions are extremely diverse and vary from
case to case, we forced in 2008 besides the successful maintenance and consolidation of existing and
new business relationships the identification of internal and external partners. At the same time new
international clients were acquired and client relation managers were supported in the optimisation of
their existing and new clients business.
The Family Office Europe offers banks and other financial consultants that do not have the expertise the
opportunity of cooperating with us and offers their wealthy clients the option of accessing a broadly
diversified network of experts via our platform. So the basis for new international business relationships
has been expanded. In order to be present worldwide, a website has been created initially in English and
German. At the same time we set up a ’service menu’ and a pitchbook for our clients, also in both English
and German. Additional languages (French, Russian, Italian etc.) are under way.
Benelux: Recommendations support business expansion – Expansion in the
Netherlands: acquisition of two asset management companies. Subsidiary in Belgium:
now well established after acquisition in 2007
As in previous years, the relationship managers at the Benelux Desk were successfully able to acquire new
assets and consolidate existing business relationships in the financial year. Some clients have been served
and supported for several generations. Against the background of unfavourable market conditions, it is
above all the recommendations of satisfied clients that have enabled us to establish new client relation-