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Poachers strip UBS of London wealth management staff
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Blue Sky appoints managing director and chief investment officer
Investment boutique Blue Sky Asset Management has appointed James Chu as managing director and chief investment officer, based in London. Chu, who co-founded Blue Sky along with Chris Taylor, chief executive, will work alongside former HSBC Asset…
S&P offers commodities and natural resources
Index provider Standard & Poor’s has launched two new indexes: the S&P Global Natural Resources and PMI Commodities and Resources indexes, which are designed to provide exposure to the commodities and natural resources sectors.
ETF expert Deborah Fuhr steps down from managing director role
Deborah Fuhr has stepped down from her position as a managing director based in London at Morgan Stanley this week, according to the investment bank. While Fuhr remains at Morgan Stanley, the bank offers no comment on what role she will now occupy.
Merrill Lynch fervent on equity volatility
Merrill Lynch Global Research has launched the Merrill Lynch US Forward Equity Variance Rolling (FEVR) index, which measures the performance of a long S&P 500 volatility strategy. The index tracks volatility using a strategy designed to minimise the…
JP Morgan debuts in Singapore; launches first Asian structured funds
JP Morgan has launched its first structured product for Singapore retail investors and has also brought to market two retail structured funds in Asia for the first time.
SocGen backing the return of credit
Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking (SGCIB) has launched the SGA Series 15 Emerging Asia Retail Notes, a first-to-default credit-linked offering to retail investors in Singapore. The notes provide exposure to China, India, Korea, Thailand…
Krein moves into the mainstream
David Krein has joined Dow Jones Indexes as senior director, institutional markets, moving from DTB Capital, a financial services firm that he founded in 2006. Krein will be a representative of DJ Indexes to the institutional investment community…
Marking to market, to model or to matrix?
10. Mark-to-market
CDOs: Weathering the subprime storm
1. Introduction
Arbitrage, super-senior and single-tranche CDOs
4. Other CDO types
The benefits of balance sheet management
2. Balance sheet management
Monoline insurers and the super-senior bombshell
9. Monolines
The spread of collateral in the CDO market
5. Other collateral types
CDS and synthetic CDOs
3. Credit default swaps
Summer 2007: When the music stopped
8. Credit crisis
CDOs and the subprime mortgage market
7. Subprime mortgages
The future for CDOs: An end to complexity?
12. The outlook
Secure that data
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FSA speaks out on data security
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Meteor launches new property and commodity products
Meteor has launched two new products to UK retail investors. One is a property index-linked plan, and the other is a commodity-linked product which offers two risk options. Both have a six-year maturity.