Asset management
Rate risks redux
Introduction
Threadneedle Investments, Credit Fund, Robert Stirling - Sep 2003
A pure credit approach to Threadneedle’s Crescendo Credit Fund means its returns were running to schedule when Hedge Funds Review spoke to manager Robert Stirling in September 2003.
Royal Bank of Canada reaches agreement over Enron case
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has reached a settlement agreement with Enron, the Enron creditors’ committee and Dutch firm Rabobank, resolving aspects of a share transaction known as ‘Cerberus’. The transaction also involved the use of total return…
Signs are good for IAS 39 final preparations
Regulation
What’s in a name-change?
Profile: Capitalia
Risk in transition
Asset allocation
Smokescreen or saviour?
Pension liabilities
On the back foot
Market view
Sick and tired of the three per cents
High yield
Getting ready for IAS
With International Accounting Standard 39 set to be implemented in Australia in January 2005, John Kidd and Jim Godsil of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu warn that early preparation is critical.
Comment
Introduction
Gartmore, Martin Phipps - August 2003
Gartmore's Martin Phipps provided Hedge Funds Review with an update in August 2003 on the group's single fund roll-out plans.
Austrian rail firm on the risk management fast track
Austria’s largest electricity consumer, rail firm Österreichische Bundesbahnen, talks to EPRM about its energy risk management strategy. And, as Paul Lyon discovers, other end-users could learn from the innovative company
Getting ready for IAS
Accounting
Gartmore sets its business plan in action with credit hedge fund
New credit fund has greater capacity than previous funds
Eastern European stocks excel in illiquid markets
The boom and bust reputation of emerging markets is slowly disappearing
Renewed merger activity provides greater choice
The rise in equity markets has created new funding options for takeovers
Commercial risk prohibits managers revealing shorts
regulators must accept lower transparency on short side
Making waves
With returns of 88.74% since inception, IAM's Alternative Investment Strategies fund of hedge funds is keeping its investors happy