GFCI 12 Financial Report (place, America, life, ranking)

[scrantiX]

http://www.longfinance.net/Publications/GFCI%2012.pdf

NYC 765 (-7)
Chicago 683 (-5)
Toronto 681 (-4)
Boston 680 (-4)
San Francisco 678 (-5)
DC 672 (-5)
Vancouver 668 (+1)
Montreal 667 (+9)
Calgary 647 (+5)
Mexico City 602 (-8)

[Toure]

These Reports HATE Philadelphia. Miami and Philadelphia are big financial centers.

[scrantiX]

Lick your wounds and move on, Philadelphians think all these publication agencies all over the world universally get together on a Skype conference call to make it their agenda to exclude Phily from all their lists. That's as laughable as it gets. 1 post in the thread and the typical Phily foaming mouth rabid dog symptom is going viral again.

No recent reputable publication (Economist, Foreign Policy, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Brookings, etc) beside GAWC thinks Phily is that relevant and I don't either.

[2e1m5a]

Is Toure your alter ego? LOL

[TAM88]

Originally Posted by Toure

These Reports HATE Philadelphia. Miami and Philadelphia are big financial centers.

They may be big, just not as big as NYC, Boston, Chicago, SF and DC.

[rainrock]

Originally Posted by scrantiX

Lick your wounds and move on, Philadelphians think all these publication agencies all over the world universally get together on a Skype conference call to make it their agenda to exclude Phily from all their lists. That's as laughable as it gets. 1 post in the thread and the typical Phily foaming mouth rabid dog symptom is going viral again.

I'm expecting that Phily booster with the 4 year old 2008 mastercard ranking as his homepage to come in and laughably post it because no recent reputable publication (Economist, Foreign Policy, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Brookings, etc) beside GAWC thinks Phily is that relevant and I don't either.

Within 1 minute can you tell me the criteria used in these rankings or do you just like to see SF ranked high on a list ?

Do you guys take turns Googling SF/Top rankings and come immediately running to this site to post this nonsense? Do you get a thrill out of it?

[scrantiX]

Originally Posted by rainrock

Within 1 minute can you tell me the criteria used in these rankings

‘Connectivity’ – the extent to which a centre is
well known around the world and how much
non-resident professionals believe it is
connected to other financial centres.
Respondents are asked to assess only those
centres with which they are personally familiar.
A centre’s connectivity is assessed using a
combination of ‘inbound’ assessment locations
(the number of locationsfrom which a
particular centre receives assessments) and
‘outbound’ assessment locations(the number
of other centres assessed by respondentsfrom
a particular centre). If the weighted
assessmentsfor a centre are provided by
over 65%of other centres, this centre
is deemed to be ‘Global’. If the
ratings are provided by over 45%
of other centres, this centre is
deemed to be ‘Transnational’.

‘Diversity’– the breadth of industry sectorsthat
flourish in a financial centre. We consider this
‘richness’ of the business environment to be
measurable in a similar way to that of the
natural environment and therefore, use a
combination of biodiversity indices(calculated
on the instrumental factors) to assess a centre’s
diversity. A high score meansthat a centre is
well diversified; a low diversity score reflects a
lessrich business environment.
‘Speciality’ - the depth within a financial centre
of the following industry sectors: asset
management, investment banking, insurance,
professionalservices and wealth management.
A centre’s‘speciality’ performance is calculated
from the difference between the GFCI rating
and the industry sector ratings

or do you just like to see SF ranked high on a list ?

Finance has a deep history with San Francisco, we know our place as the west's premier financial center. It's just good to see others (from around the world) think so too.

What do you Bay Area jackals do?

Work, hike, swim, play the piano, crunch numbers at work, run programs, watch the travel channel, watch netflix with the wife, have dinner out 5 times a week, travel to eastbay for a change of scenery, surf the internet, we do what we can with what we have here.

Do you get a thrill out of it?

I consider hiking a necessity. Everyone should get some fresh air at some point in their week. The others are hobbies.

Take turns Googling SF/Top rankings and come immrdiately running to this site to post this nonsense?

[rainrock]

vv This vv alone should put Philadelphia(metro 6,000,000) ahead of cities like Calgary that have metroes of around 1,000,000.

Wilmington De. has become a national financial center for the credit card industry. Many major credit card issuers, including Bank of America (formerly MBNA Corporation), Chase Card Services (part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., formerly Bank One/First USA), and Barclays Bank of Delaware (formerly Juniper Bank), are headquartered in Wilmington. The Dutch banking giant ING Groep N.V. headquartered its ING Direct, in Wilmington. The United Kingdom's HSBC has their American operations headquartered in Wilmington. Wilmington Trust is headquartered in Wilmington at Rodney Square. Barclays and ING Direct have very large and prominent locations located along the waterfront of the Christina River.

[rainrock]

Originally Posted by scrantiX

‘Connectivity’ – the extent to which a centre is
well known around the world and how much
non-resident professionals believe it is
connected to other financial centres.
Respondents are asked to assess only those
centres with which they are personally familiar.
A centre’s connectivity is assessed using a
combination of ‘inbound’ assessment locations
(the number of locationsfrom which a
particular centre receives assessments) and
‘outbound’ assessment locations(the number
of other centres assessed by respondentsfrom
a particular centre). If the weighted
assessmentsfor a centre are provided by
over 65%of other centres, this centre
is deemed to be ‘Global’. If the
ratings are provided by over 45%
of other centres, this centre is
deemed to be ‘Transnational’.

‘Diversity’– the breadth of industry sectorsthat
flourish in a financial centre. We consider this
‘richness’ of the business environment to be
measurable in a similar way to that of the
natural environment and therefore, use a
combination of biodiversity indices(calculated
on the instrumental factors) to assess a centre’s
diversity. A high score meansthat a centre is
well diversified; a low diversity score reflects a
lessrich business environment.
‘Speciality’ - the depth within a financial centre
of the following industry sectors: asset
management, investment banking, insurance,
professionalservices and wealth management.
A centre’s‘speciality’ performance is calculated
from the difference between the GFCI rating
and the industry sector ratings

Finance has a deep history with San Francisco, we know our place as the west's premier financial center. It's just good to see others (from around the world) think so too.

Work, hike, swim, play the piano, crunch numbers at work, run programs, watch the travel channel, watch netflix with the wife, have dinner out 5 times a week, travel to eastbay for a change of scenery, surf the internet, we do what we can with what we have here.

I consider hiking a necessity. Everyone should get some fresh air at some point in their week. The others are hobbies.

You Failed

Took you 11 minutes to cut & paste. Not a word of it probably made any sense to you.

[scrantiX]

Originally Posted by rainrock

You Failed

Philadelphia failed, failed to make the list for the 12th time in a row that is.

I understand it. It takes the composite strengths of every global financial center from banking, insurance, futures exchange, transactions, and liquidations and it makes a composite rank of the cities as they should "rank" in the world.

What's bothering you is their omission of Philadelphia, but come on man, it's Philadelphia. Can you really blame them? LOL

Anyway, know those things I listed that we "bay area jackals do", I'm about to go and do one of them and go for a swim. You can choose to sit here and have yourself a fasting because it will take you a lifetime to realize that Philadelphia just ain't a premier financial center in the world!