Credit - Credit Jul/Aug 2011
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Unconstrained bond funds gain momentum as investors turn away from benchmarks
Asset managers have reported demand from clients for so-called unconstrained bond strategies; freeing them from the rigidity of managing to benchmark bond indexes. Credit talked to five leading investment firms to get their take on the unconstrained…
Credit risk models alone do not capture sovereign risk – Nicholas Spiro profile
The sovereign specialist
Credit Awards 2011: The winners!
Credit Awards 2011
Best independent research provider: CreditSights
Best independent research provider: CreditSights
Best agency broker: Evolution Securities
Best agency broker: Evolution Securities
Best bank for Islamic finance: HSBC
Best bank for Islamic finance: HSBC
Best bank for ABS: Royal Bank of Scotland
Best bank for ABS: Royal Bank of Scotland
Best bank for covered bonds: Deutsche Bank
Best bank for covered bonds: Deutsche Bank
Best bank for non-core currencies: RBC Capital Markets
Best bank for non-core currencies: RBC Capital Markets
Best bank for euro bonds: JP Morgan
Best bank for euro bonds: JP Morgan
Best bank overall for credit: Barclays Capital
Best bank overall for credit: Barclays Capital
Credit Awards 2011: Methodology
Credit Awards 2011: Methodology
Greece debt volatility provides openings for basis trading
A basis for trading
Italy fiscal struggles raise new fears over creditworthiness
Mask of respectability
Eurozone bailouts exacerbating the problem – John Redwood interview
In conversation with...John Redwood
When ‘bad’ assets aren’t bad – Caveat Lector column
Bargain hunt
Bonds don’t always behave as their risk profile should dictate – Marty Fridson column
Right call, wrong outcome
Iceland returns to market with $1bn 5yr deal
Iceland returns to market with $1bn 5yr deal
CBOE relaunches credit event binary options
CBOE relaunches credit event binary options
Credit investors nervous over withdrawal of QE2
Credit investors nervous over withdrawal of US quantitative easing programmes
Credit markets people moves – July 2011
People news
Flame software demonstrates new risks to data security
New software could be "parallel project" to US-linked Stuxnet attack
Severity of fraud falling across Europe
Fico and Euromonitor collect European card fraud data and SAS Software tracks biggest op risk events
Cutting CVA's complexity
Cutting CVA's complexity
Model foundations of the Basel III standardised CVA charge
Model foundations of the Basel III standardised CVA charge
ID theft leads rise in US suspicious activity figures
Suspicious activity data