Alan Quasha Finance

Posted By on June 16, 2010

Alan Quasha, founder, president and CEO of Quadrant Management, has certainly had a successful business career.  In an article in Leaders Magazine, he was asked about how he gives back, in addition to all of his business dealings.  Alan Quasha explained that,

“When he was younger, one of my sons went into a coma because he had what is called a traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Through that experience, I learned a lot about TBI and becameinvolved with the Brain Trauma Foundation. I understood the enormous impact that TBI could have on families, both emotional and financial. I was asked to chair the Brain Trauma Foundation and this great organization has made tremendous changes to how TBI is treated throughout the United States and the world.

The experience has taught me lessons that I’d love other organizations to learn. One is that you don’t necessarily need to be a large organization to make something happen.”

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Posted By on May 25, 2010

Alan Quasha is someone who has to know what is going on in the world of finance.  Since the financial companies in which he is involved – president of Quadrant Management Inc. and Partner at Vanterra – are global, being abreast of economic developments and downturns on a global level is part of the job.  That is why the latest news in the Indian stock market might be somewhat troubling for a man like Quasha.  One of the countries in which Quadrant Management Inc. has an office, is India.

Indian Stock Market and Alan Quasha

The Indian stock market is currently in decline, and that fact, together with the crisis of Greek sovereign debt has “raised the specter of a double dip recession.”  This is also quite disappointingly surprising since it was only recently that NIFTY (the major index for companies on the country’s National Stock Exchange) was looking pretty good.  Clearly therefore, what has now happened and what was predicted to have happened in the country’s economy, just shows how important it is for global companies such as Quasha’s to constantly keep on top of worldwide fiscal flux.

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Posted By on May 15, 2010

Alan Quasha knows quite a bit about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).  It is Quasha who today chairs the Brain Trauma Foundation’s Board of Directors.  The foundation was established in 1986 to “support research on TBI.”  There are always new developments being established and researched in this field.  Most recently, the US military now has plans for clinical trials to discover whether “breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber helps brain injuries to heal.”  Even if the injuries are not actually completely healed, such a process it is hoped, might actually relieve headaches and other symptoms associated with TBI.  Such an achievement would definitely be welcome news for Alan Quasha and all those working at the Brain Trauma Foundation.
The trials are set to take place in North Carolina, Texas, Colorado and California and will involve testing  approximately 300 service members suffering from mild to moderate brain injuries.  Although the therapy currently cannot boast any proven records, it still warrants trials.  This is because, according to Col. Richard Ricciardi of the Defense Center of Excellence, in theory, more oxygen will dissolve in the blood in a body that is under pressure.  As well, higher oxygen levels have been able to help in the healing of tissue.
Anything that could potentially help TBI sufferers is for sure something Alan Quasha and all those at the Brain Trauma Foundation would support.  This is especially true in this kind of study involving service members, since, almost 120,000 individuals have been victim to brain trauma injuries in the last seven years.

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Posted By on May 5, 2010

Learning the lessons of the financial crisis and growing from them is an important part of the philosophy that Alan Quasha takes to life and the way he pursues business. As we begin to emerge from the recent global economic crisis, Alan Quasha believes people will take a new look at their lives, at the meaning of material success, and re-evaluate what is truly important in life.

Mr. Quasha has observed, several times, people discovering and doing what they love, even though it might not be the most financially rewarding thing that they could do. These people, who understood their own personalities, weaknesses, strengths and passions, were able to forge a new road, breaking new ground, in pursuit of their passion. Their lives, although they might not be fabulously wealthy, are nevertheless fantastic, and this is a very important lesson we can all take from the economic crisis. Alan Quasha puts it thus:

“I think young people should, first of all, do something they’re passionate about. If it happens to bring enormous wealth to them, great; if it doesn’t, that’s also great. At the end of the day, and particularly as you get older, time is an increasingly valuable commodity, and so doing something you really like to do is a great way to fill the time you have. I feel that we’re moving to a world where time is more relevant than money. People should probably spend more time thinking about how they want to spend their time, rather than how they might make the most amount of money. If they actually thought about that, it might change some of their decisions.”

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Posted By on April 25, 2010

“Leaders” on-line business magazine asked Alan Quasha what advice he has for young people who are just starting out in their educations and careers. How should one decide what life goals to pursue and if business or public service is worthwhile in a climate in which such activities are sometimes criticized or overly scrutinized and even suspect.

Taking the philosophical approach, Alan Quasha believes there are two aspects to finding the perfect lifetime pursuits.  First off, one must know one’s own strengths and weaknesses. What you are good at, what you’re not so good at, should be clear. Then, it is crucial to find something that you feel passion about, something that gets you excited and moves you to action. A pitfall is to be careful not to feel passionate about something that you are bad at or not well-suited for. This combination will probably not bear fruit. But if you are good at something that you just love, this is a very powerful combination and is a very good way to improve the chances of success.

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Posted By on April 15, 2010

Despite Alan Quasha’s multiple responsibilities and participation in several philanthropic organizations such as the Brain Trauma Foundation, Mr. Quasha is still able to relax, and apparently little can “ruffle his feathers.”

How does Alan Quasha maintain his poised state of calm equilibrium in the face his many activities and highly intense life-style?  According to Mr. Quasha, it is a philosophical approach to life and the aid of meditation that keeps him so “even-keeled.”

Alan Quasha began meditating when he was very young, when, as he puts it, “I juggled a lot of stuff,” which he found “hard.”

”I have found that, for me, meditation is a very good tool to help you be at peace with yourself on a regular basis, and be able to juggle a lot of things without getting too excited or letting the bad or good things that happen every day change the way you feel about yourself or the people around you.”

Alan Quasha takes an extraordinary view towards mistakes. He views mistakes as a part of life, and the best approach to take to your own mistakes and the mistakes of others is to learn as much from them and then move on. It is important to recognize that mistakes are inevitable and, taking the positive view, is an important way to learn. We must learn the lesson, move on, and hopefully not make the same mistakes again.
As far as getting angry or upset is concerned, that is just ridiculous, as Alan Quasha explains:

“I don’t get upset or angry. That’s not to say I don’t sometimes internally get quite upset about specific things that I wish were going differently. But jumping up and down, or letting that impulse get the best of you, seems pretty silly. We’re going to make mistakes, and we’re going to end up doing things we wish we didn’t do, and I’m fairly laid back about it.”

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Posted By on April 5, 2010

‘Leaders,’ the online magazine which covers “the broad range of leadership thoughts and visions of the world’s most influential people, interviewed Alan Quasha in April, 2009.

Alan Quasha’s answer as to how he was going to “give back” to the community which has helped in to succeed is as follows:

“Again, it’s consistent with our philosophy about working with organizations that aren’t necessarily well known, but have a huge personal impact. When he was younger, one of my sons went into a coma because he had what is called a traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Through that experience, I learned a lot about TBI and became involved with the Brain Trauma Foundation. I understood the enormous impact that TBI could have on families, both emotional and financial. I was asked to chair the Brain Trauma Foundation and this great organization has made tremendous changes to how TBI is treated throughout the United States and the world.”

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Posted By on March 25, 2010

Alan Quasha is the Founder and President of Quadrant Management, Inc. The company was created in 1988 and has its headquarters in New York City. Quadrant is an investment manager which is privately owned. They focus their investment strategies in public equities and alternative markets worldwide. An extra emphasis is placed on United States investments and emerging markets overseas.

In early 2009 the company ARC Wireless Solutions Inc. retained Quadrant as a financial advisor. Included in the financial agreement between ARC and Quadrant, Quadrant will deliver financial advice to ARC as well as provide restructuring services.

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Posted By on March 17, 2010

Back in 2009 Finance Weekly, the online finance magazine featured a profile on Alan Quasha. As they put it, “From time to time we like to profile interesting and/or successful individuals making news in the world of finance.”

According to Finance Weekly, Alan Quasha is perhaps best known as an expert at company restructuring, his most recent endeavor restructuring of Genius Products. Also able to facilitate company acquisitions, Quasha was instrumental in the acquisition of the private equity firm of Lehman Brothers by the investment firm Reinet Investments.

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Posted By on March 9, 2010

In article published in the on-line magazine The Daily Beast, Alan Quasha offers four alternatives to the gigantic U.S. bailout of banks, which Quasha believes could harm the long term economy of the United States.

In his article entitled “Stop the Bailout: Four Better Alternatives” Alan Quasha calls for  a paradigm shift in which we focus more on “re-engineering America” rather than doing than “shooting from the hip” and “throwing good money after bad businesses.”

Alan Quasha enumerates four alternatives which he believes can stimulate the economy without “mortgaging our grandchildren’s future.”

These four alternatives are:

1.    Allow the banks to fail through the vehicle of bankruptcy, and transfer the funds to successful banks.

2.    Leave the well-functioning banks while at the same time transferring “toxic” assets to a government vehicle which can then liquidate in an orderly fashion.

3.    Insist on the merging of weaker banks with stronger banks to consolidate them.

4.    Create and implement creative asset-insurance schemes to protect a percentage of the loss, perhaps above 10%, which would be kept by the banks. This would then pay for an insurance premium of non-voting preference shares. In order to make sure that the banks get their 1.4 trillion, the government should supply the capital pari passu with investors.

Alan Quasha makes several more suggestions, creating a comprehensive plan which is a realistic alternative to the bailout proposal. As Alan Quasha puts it:

“Now is the time for bold long-term thinking and short-term government activism. If done correctly, and if we can largely keep politics out of the investment process, the American people can benefit from potentially the greatest opportunity of this century and begin to endow their economic future.”

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