Infrastructure
Icap launches improved credit trading platform
London-based interdealer broker Icap has launched an upgraded credit trading platform, including pricing information on OTC derivatives from Markit.
Why illiquid instruments need no longer leave investors high and dry
illiquid instruments
Automating the derivatives dilemma
derivatives
More than just an academic interest...
private equity from universities
Managing the mortgage maze
Uk Mortgages
Hot property
Derivatives
Reinventing the fund
Funds of Hedge Funds
Bulking up
Annuities
A successor to VAR?
Strees Testing
Bright forecast for weather derivatives
To attract more corporate end-users, purveyors of weather derivatives are creating new products in search of the perfect hedge, as Catherine Lacoursiere finds
L Sankar, Jure Skarabot
Citigroup credit derivatives specialists explain why the Gaussian copula model, despite its flaws, is still the market standard for analysing correlation
Credit derivatives: the next generation
Now that credit default swaps and other credit derivatives are moving into the mainstream of financial trading, a new range of products and structures are being developed using synthetic techniques. Calyon's Loic Fery and Ally Chow review some of these…
Convertibles are back in fashion ... but how can they avoid the pitfalls of the past?
Convertible bonds are back on investors' radars after an overvalued market imploded early last year. But how sustainable is the recovery - and how can it avoid repeating the pattern of the last bloodbath? Jean-Paul Carbonnier investigates
Thomas Huertas
The director of the wholesale firms division and banking sector leader at the Financial Services Authority in London outlines the progress made in resolving the operational problems in credit derivatives processing. Interview by Nikki Marmery
Swiss restructuring
As regulatory pressure on insurance companies to improve their solvency requirements increases, one reinsurer's reaction stands out from the crowd. Hardeep Dhillon looks at how Swiss Re is using innovative structures in the debt capital markets to…
The outlook for Ford
Talking point
James Vinci
As hedge funds have grown, so too has prime brokerage. Market leader Morgan Stanley's prime brokerage MD James Vinci explains the challenges of this business to Saskia Scholtes
Back to Basics
We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask ... Dominic Pegler, head of fixed-income strategy for Europe at Barclays Global Investors in London, explains how a bond is priced
Are we nearly there yet?
Amy Falls wonders when credit spreads will widen enough for investors to feel that credit risk is being priced appropriately