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Hedge funds keen to attract family office investment
Family offices with substantial assets can often be an attractive investor market for hedge funds. Dealing with these family offices, however, can be very different from coping with the typical institutional investor. Sara Utecht and Jamie Wynn-Williams…
Powerful fusions
Europe’s power exchanges arebecoming increasingly connected asnational transmission grids link up.Roderick Bruce looks at the effect thiswill have on electricity trading
Swing contracts – take it or leave it?
Gas swing contracts are well established, but it is only recently thattechniques have been developed to measure and capture the value intheir flexibility. John Breslin, Les Clewlow, Chris Strickland and Daniel vander Zee of Lacima Group discuss these…
Out of Africa
Nigeria, Libya and Algeria between them produce around 7% of theworld’s oil, a figure that is only expected to grow. With global oil suppliestight, what happens in these, sometimes unstable, oil-producing countrieswill impact heavily on global oil…
Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency is fast becoming a resource and a business in its ownright. This month’s special report takes an in-depth look at some of theadvances, challenges and opposition to this growing market
Commodity Rankings 2008
A continued growth in participants, as well as a range of newly identified emerging markets are clearly evidenced in this year’s Commodity Rankings, writes Andrew Holt
Leveraged loans: Clearing the backlog
While LBO bankers in the US are chipping away at the backlog of deals, Europe seems unable to shift its overhang. Daniel Andrews looks at how differences in the way the two markets have evolved are affecting their chances of tackling the problem