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Future imperfect

Hedging physical deals with derivatives may be active risk management, but if the physical contract is breached, it can result in unnecessary losses. Andrew Meads looks at whether the innocent party can recover these losses

Western congestion

Despite huge strides to improve power transmission efficiency in California since 2001, the region is still flagged a 'critical congestion area' by the US Department of Energy. Neil O'Hara looks at the state of play

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HYBRIDS: BACK ON TRACK

The hybrid securities market has recovered from the twin setbacks of excessive volatility in the European market in the spring and a negative regulatory ruling in the US. But what have investors learnt from these hiccups? Laurence Neville reports

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New dawn for India's securitisation market

India's structured finance business ground to a halt earlier this year after the introduction of the country's first securitisation guidelines. But with the changes now digested, new issuers are coming to market, says Sarfraz Thind

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Winner:NXP

In our monthly look at the credit market's most innovative deals, we focus on NXP's mammoth high-yield issue, the Alcentra CLO and Bouygues' 20-year bond

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The LDI makeover

For all the hype surrounding liability-driven investing, few UK pension funds have actually taken the plunge and implemented the technique. The London Pension Fund Authority is one notable exception. Nick Sawyer reports

Credit model meltdown

Dealers are trading increasingly high volumes of bespoke tranches of synthetic credit risk with each other, yet there still appears to be little consensus on the application of credit models. Is there a danger the house of cards may come tumbling down?

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