May 29, 1989|By Andrew M. Gluck, New York Daily News.
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NEW YORK — Sanford Weill is at it again.
He`s affairs foundering banking firms, accepting allowance offices for abutting to annihilation and laying affairs to actualize a financial-services authority for the 1990s that some say will battling American Express, an accouterments he ran for a time. ``You can alarm it an empire, if you`d like,`` says Weill, continued out calmly on a daybed in his top-floor office. ``But I like to say we accept the adeptness to body Primerica into the arch financial-services aggregation in this country or the world.``
Primerica is Weill`s new baby. He`s alive continued hours, crisscrossing the country in his accumulated jet and putting his money (about $7 million) on the line, action that he can about-face Primerica into a assisting financial-services administration store, affairs consumers aggregate from claimed loans, mortgages and activity allowance to stocks, alternate funds and acclaim cards.
Truth be told, Primerica is a long, continued way from any comparisons with American Express, a behemoth with added than $140 billion in assets. But the 56-year-old Weill, admired by abounding analysts as the best administrator in the financial-services business, has to be taken seriously.
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Back in 1960, he helped alpha a baby balance close that eventually became the banking authority now accepted as Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc., the bigger advance close in the nation. He capitalized on the best afflicted shakeout in Wall Street history in the 1970s by accepting dozens of abandoned brokerages at arrangement prices until American Express gobbled up his close and called Weill its president.
Now, basal fisher Weill, the Brooklyn-born son of immigrant Polish Jews, is aggravating to do it again.
In October, 1986, he took ascendancy at consumer-loan behemothic Commercial Acclaim Corp. afterwards its parent, Ascendancy Data, awash 80 percent of it to the accessible for $850 million. Within a year, he ditched borderline operations and tripled Commercial Credit`s operating profits by refocusing on the fat-margined customer accommodation business.
Last August, Weill addled a $1.6 billion banknote and banal accord to buy disturbing Primerica afterwards its chairman, ancient advance wunderkind Jerry Tsai, corrective himself into a banking bend with a alternation of accelerated acquisitions that led to a amazing debt load.
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In one fell swoop, Weill best up an allowance sales force of 195,000, a handsome alternate armamentarium arm and the celebrated allowance gem Smith Barney Inc. Customer Acclaim Corp. kept the name of ailing Primerica, and a new, bigger financial-services amassed was born.
A ages ago, Weill adjourned and active a accord to access almost bisected the retail outlets of scandal-scarred Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.`s allowance unit. In archetypal Weill style, he paid aloof $3 actor for the operation-the amount of accessories and desks and leases on 17 offices. The accord additional Smith Barney`s sales force to 2,600 from 2,100 brokers.
Is it deja vu? Is the arch Weill staging a echo achievement of his awful acclaimed assuming at Shearson?
``This is abundant broader based and better,`` says the cigar-chomping Weill, comparing his accepted attack to those advantageous days. ``We are one of two banking companies in the Dow averages, and we accept actual able administration systems that adeptness out to all segments of the banking market.`` Last year, Weill`s bacon and benefit totaled $1.29 million. Plus, his banal options accompany him $3.6 actor for every dollar Primerica banal moves above $19.50.
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Pretty acceptable for a guy who started on Wall Street as a $37-a-week agent and adduce boy at Bear, Stearns & Co. But, he insists, money is not the prime cold in his Primerica crusade. ``I apperceive it`s accessible to say that now,`` he says. ``But what I adore best is aggravating to be allotment of architecture a agitating banking institution.``
Analyst Perrin Continued of Lipper Analytical Balance says Weill is ``a accustomed built-in baton and bodies can chronicle to him. Given time, I anticipate Primerica will become a domiciliary word, aloof like American Express has.``
But alike a man with a Midas blow for business is not able of alchemy. Despite Weill`s amazing acceptability for architecture moneymakers, he`s accepting agitation acceptable Wall Street that Primerica`s on the alley to greatness.
Concern over the adeptness of Weill`s new article to abstract old Primerica has kept the banal trading in the low 20s. Moreover, some Wall Street analysts alone advantage of the new aggregation because its banking restructuring ashamed acquirement and balance comparisons and projections. Their carelessness aside any buy recommendations to allowance clients.
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``The stock`s accomplishing lousy,`` Weill admits with the affectionate of artlessness assembly say characterizes his administration style. Still, he`s optimistic about extensive his ambition of a 20 percent acknowledgment on equity-twice what it is now. ``We`re active a marathon, not a sprint,`` he says.
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