Profile/Regulation
Latin America: Dancing to a Latin beat
Country Profile
System overhaul
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The derivatives watchdog
Thomas Huertas, FSA director of wholesale firms, talks to Alexander Campbell
Growth by acquisition likely for Tribeca
Citigroup thought of buying Amaranth and is still looking to expand, as Tribeca's Dean Barr told Phyllis Feinberg in New York
Floating in a northerly direction...
As Polar Capital heads towards an admission to London's AIM market, its CEO Mark Kary explains to David Walker its plans, and how it has kept its entrepreneurial culture despite surpassing $3bn in assets
Behind Solent's towering success
Solent Capital Partners has won plaudits - and investors - for managing collateralised debt obligations, and also for its credit-based hedge fund product, reports Solomon Teague
Aktie-Ansvar's Swedish structure
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Building liquidity
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Caliburn Capital rears the next generation of fund of funds thoroughbreds
Caliburn Capital's has a top-down focus on its institutional FoHF products, pursuing themes and those managers it deems most likely to exploit them successfully, as David Walker reports
Que sera, sera, but will you make money?
"If only we knew what was around the corner, we'd all make so much money." As such, our very own oracle, Solomon Teague, has dusted off his crystal ball to find out what 2007's markets may have in store...
GMO's emerging market high-flyers
Bill Nemerever and Tom Cooper, co-managers of GMO's emerging markets debt portfolio, have made their names sourcing cheap debt in unusual locations. Shunning roadshows and local currencies, they barely even travel to the countries they invest in. Dalia…
HKMC focuses on fixed income
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The Wild East
The fall of the Soviet Union and the end of its rule over the satellite states of eastern Europe came as a surprise to the industrialised nations of the West. But within a short time they had reacted: backing projects to secure Soviet nuclear technology;…
The woman and Man with a pension plan
Ros Altmann says it's only a matter of time until a large UK company is pulled under by its troubled pension plan. Is that a bird? A plane? No, it's Super Man (Investments) with a plan for the plans, writes David Walker
Seizing the hedge funds' day
The Carpe Diem Group is setting up to capture the growth of the hedge fund industry in a number of ways, not least of which is building a Swiss bank and listing on London's AIM
Keeping one step ahead of the innovators
Kilkenny Capital Management has been making healthy returns out of the biotechnology sector for more than a decade. Jay Blanche met up with the top brass while they were in London, to find out how they do it
Privates Hoch
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Sovereign remedy
The World Bank, the lender of last - and often first - resort for the poorer nations of the world, uses derivatives to hedge its own risk book much as any other bank would. But it has another important role in the risk business: acting as an intermediary…
A feast of futures
Associated British Foods is significantly exposed to commodity price fluctuations. Anna Gordon-Walker asks the company's finance team how it manages these diverse risks
Plus ça change - how Polo Fund unlocks value
David Walker profiles Polo Capital Management's Polo Fund, the seekers out of catalysts for change and new paradigms to profit in the event-driven strategy
Worlds apart? The differing needs of institutional and high-net-worth investors
european investment forum
With the benefit of foresight: how Aspect Capital spotted the pension trend
As a swathe of reports on institutional interest in hedge funds are being published, Aspect Capital CEO Anthony Todd tells David Walker how they saw it coming, and prepared, back in 1997
The third way
Cantor Fitzgerald's fixed-income research team