Asset management
Shorts proving popular in US as bear looms
US long/short
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
More than just talking about the weather
Energy Risk launched the Environmental Risk brand on October 17, with an e-symposium on the weather risk market, which attracted over 500 online delegates. A range of other online conferences on emissions and renewables will follow
The tools investors use to price securitisations
Evaluating ABS
US managers set the pace in European CLO market
The burgeoning market for collateralised loan obligations in Europe has attracted the attention of large, established US managers, keen to get a piece of the action. So what effect is this influx of transatlantic thoroughbreds having on the European CLO…
Winner: Mobilink
In our monthly roundup of innovative deals in the credit market, we dish out the gongs to Mobilink's trailblazing bond, Lloyds TSB's Arkle RMBS and OTC Bank's hybrid
Learning from alternatives
Features
Tilting the scales
Features
Clash of steel
Features
The LDI pioneers
Features
Review of the Year
Features
Calma piatta sugli steepener
Spread option su CMS
Time of life
Longevity risk
Pension funds should use mark-to-market accounting, says Rhode
Lars Rhode, chief executive of the $71.4 billion Danish state pension fund ATP, told delegates attending Risk USA’s derivatives and risk management conference in New York that pension funds must be seen as financial institutions and follow the same…
Treasury and FSA publish discussion paper on insurance group supervision
UK regulators aim to overhaul the insurance industry with a minimum of regulatory burden.
Solvency II advice and consultations release
Activity is increasing on the directive, and consultations on the high-level principles have been issued.