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Eyes on the storm
Supranationals
The hunt for talent
Demand for experienced oil traders has never been fiercer with ever more companies competing for a finite talent pool. Securing oil traders in 2008 will be tough, and some firms may be forced to alter their business models in order to survive, writes…
Counting the costs
The cost of much needed oil exploration and production projects has spiralled recently. Roderick Bruce looks at what is driving the cost rises and what their effect may be
Closer to the asset
As physical oil trading is increasingly influenced by supply and logistics issues, integrating specialised operational aspects into commercial risk models has become key. David Newton, CEO of TradeCapture, looks at how these challenges are changing…
Weathering the subprime meltdown
While conventional markets have been battered by the subprime crisis, weather market players have enjoyed high returns. Investing in weather derivatives provides insulation from volatile, chaos-prone and unpredictable human decision-making processes,…
Doing the right thing
HBOS has been at the forefront of structuring mortgage finance deals in the European markets. During recent turmoil, the bank has twice issued covered bonds in a bid to reopen that sector. It seems that head of securitisation and covered bonds at Bank of…
Bleak news from Boston
Conference Coverage
Changing the rules
Regulation
Banking on a fall
Rates
Plugging the data gaps
Technology
Aussies show their backbone
Australia
Not stressed enough
Stress testing
Q&A: Rick McVey
In the wake of news that Thomson is to sell off part of TradeWeb, we ask the chief exec of e-trading platform MarketAxess how he sees the electronic bond trading landscape evolving
The subprime shake-down
The subprime mortgage market - the root of all the summer's troubles - may well be in turmoil but nobody is suggesting it is about to disappear as a source of financing for securitisations. The question is, what part will it play when the dust finally…
How bonus structures contributed to the credit crisis
For a fistful of dollars
Hedge funds: The bargain hunters
There are rich pickings to be had amongst the ruins of the summer's ravaged credit markets: hedge funds that survived the crisis are now putting together funds to invest in the wide availability of cheap securities. Nikki Marmery meets the executives at…
Funds of funds surge back into credit
Lured by the return of relative value, funds of funds are once again investing in credit. In these troubled times, they argue that the diversification of their strategies offers safer investments than single-manager credit hedge funds. Nikki Marmery…
The Big Interview: Andrew Feltus
The man who controls Pioneer Investment Management's $11 billion high-yield bond portfolio tells Dalia Fahmy how he plans to make money in 2008
Setting the scene
Scenario analysis is often used to plug the gaps that conventional data can't fill. But it might have more to offer. Duncan Wood investigates