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Equity income boosted with new fund from Insight
Insight Investment, the UK-based fund manager, has launched a new equity fund with a derivative overlay to boost returns. The Equity Income Booster Fund targets an annual yield of 8%, using a call option overlay to help achieve its return and reduce…
Geithner proposes systemic risk US super regulator
Editor's blog
UBS names new Asia heads as Park and Pang depart
UBS has announced a series of appointments to the most senior roles in its equity derivatives business in Asia. The changes, which were announced this morning in Hong Kong coincide with the departure of Min Park, managing director, head of Equity Risk…
Interview - Forward market thinking
Richard Sandor, chairman and chief executive officer of the Chicago Climate Exchange, pioneered the first ever emissions trading scheme in the late 1980s for acid rain, drawing on his experience in launching interest rate futures 20 years earlier. He…
Boillereau takes over cash FX at HSBC as Brown departs
Frederic Boillereau, global head of foreign exchange and metals at HSBC in London has added cash FX to his responsibilities. Andrew Brown, global head of FX and a nine-year veteran of the bank, has left the bank. Boillereau's new role will bring together…
Quandary over future fees
Should hedge funds and funds of hedge funds reassess fee structures and move towards a different model?
Just another tool in the box
Credit ratings
Crunch time for autos
The world's carmakers are battling for survival. Should bondholders shun the sector or is there value in the firms best placed to beat the recession? Nikki Marmery reports
Dealers and regulators: Who will blink first?
High noon for CDS Clearing
What to do with the toxic debt
The issue of how to tackle the vast quantities of impaired assets lingering on banks' balance sheets has given rise to several possible solutions, chief among which is the notion of a 'bad bank'. Credit asks five market participants how such a scheme…
Missing link
Banks are unable - or unwilling - to hold bond inventory for resale in the secondary markets, meaning that their traditional role as middleman in the buying and selling of bonds is not being fulfilled. William Rhode looks at whether things will continue…
Capturing dividends
Cover Story
The mechanics of dynamics
Strategies
Dead in the water?
Basel II
Risk and compliance pivotal in setting compensation
Editor's blog
Pacini promoted, Tranter departs as BNP merges sales roles
BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking in London has merged sales roles in its equity derivatives operation under the leadership of Jean-Eric Pacini. Pacini's expanded sales role includes responsibility for flow sales, a business previously headed up…