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An absorbing business for credit hedge funds
Analysts predict there will be a wave of consolidation in the credit hedge fund sector as battered funds look for ways to survive the market turmoil. Already a number of smaller managers have had to bow to the inevitable and merge with larger players…
Traders get a taste for pick and mix
Relying exclusively on third-party applications for trading, pricing and risk management of mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities does not make sense for all buy-side firms. Alternative investment manager Highland Financial Holdings Group has…
Mexico dances to a different tune
With US structured finance markets in the grip of the subprime squeeze, close neighbour Mexico might be expected to have suffered a similar fate. But strong investor demand for securitisation and homeowner-friendly government initiatives are combining to…
Mr Cultivator
PROFILE: MARCELO CRUZ
Crisis of confidence
MANAGEMENT
Insurance-linked securities to appear soon
MANAGEMENT
Use test irrelevant?
MEASUREMENT
Banking on compliance
MANAGEMENT
Transforming footprints
ENVIRONMENTAL RISK
EU project to deliver forward-looking data
MEASUREMENT
Analytics: the key
OP RISK SOFTWARE RANKINGS
Post-SG policing
ROGUE TRADING
Taxing times for ETNs
Exchange-traded Notes
Death by association
CFXOS
The best of both worlds
Hybrid Capital
Flotillas and battleships
Insurance Groups
Tree of Knowledge
Technology
Calling time
Pension Buyouts
Counterparty poopers
Markets
Escaping the fees maze
Cover Story
Regulatory burdens
Conference Report: Benelux
Mifid in the risk mix
Regulation