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CRO Forum study released
Industry body the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Forum, which consists of the chief risk officers of Europe's leading insurers, is advancing the case for the use of proprietary internal models under Solvency...
Axa Investment Managers this week issued a €1.3 billion managed synthetic collateralised debt obligation (CDO), called Aria CDO 1, the largest single-tranche deal to date.
Axa Investment Managers has launched the second generation of its credit-equity volatility arbitrage fund, called Axa Kappa.
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JP Morgan Chase has taken a leaf out of the bond and loan markets by putting together the first syndicated synthetic collateralised debt obligation (CDO).
LME lines up Axa's Brydon as new chairman
The London Metal Exchange (LME) has appointed Donald Brydon, chairman of Axa Investment Managers, as an independent, non-executive director.
Regulators could stifle retail derivatives development, warns speaker
Overly strict financial regulations could stifle the development of derivatives products for retail investors, warned a keynote speaker at an international derivatives conference today, co-hosted by the Futures and Options Association (FOA) and the Futures...
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AXA Investment Managers hires CDO head
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed Laurent Gueunier as head of investment-grade collateralised debt obligations (CDOs).
Terror threats push up European credit default spreads
Credit default swap spreads for European corporates started to widen during the later part of this week. Fears of a terrorist attack in London or elsewhere, coupled with generally weak equity markets, started to reduce confidence in the market, traders...
FSA decision prompts tightening for insurers' credit spreads
The cost of protection for the European insurance sector has tightened by up to 15bp in trading this week following a decision by UK regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), to ease regulatory solvency requirements for individual life assurers....
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