Infrastructure
FSA chooses SAS and Detica to combat market abuse
Daily news headlines
Desjardins offers natural resource diversity
Desjardins Group, the Canadian cooperative financial group with more than $135 billion of assets under management (as at December 31, 2006), will launch the Natural Resource Guaranteed Investment (NRGI) on June 11.
OCC establishes Enterprise Governance Unit
New wing to focus on risk management
Vendors band together to build Mifid tools
40% of Directive requirements without software solution
ETG Capital opens energy hedge fund
Houston-based hedge fund firm ETG Capital Management has launched an energy fund.
ICE acquires ChemConnect's commodity business
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has agreed to acquire ChemConnect’s commodity trading business. ChemConnect is an electronic marketplace for the $150billion US natural gas liquids (NGLs) and chemicals markets.
Home ground disadvantage
Christopher Donoho and Marc Gottridge of Lovells discuss whether US Bankruptcy Court 'avoidance' powers bring up more risks for investors in, and prime brokers to, hedge funds
All software systems are Go! as Asia and Japan get algorithmically well connected
Some Asian exchanges have been less well equipped to handle algos, writes David Walker. Now, that is all changing - to hedge funds' delight...
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Hedge Funds Review gathered 10 of the administration industry's great and good to share their thoughts on the most pressing issues facing the industry today...
Even better than the real thing?
Hedge fund replication
Making up lost ground
Institutional Investor end-user Rankings 2007
The green question
Global carbon tradingPedro Moura-Costa, co founder of EcoSecurities, talks with Oliver Holtaway about his hopes for the future of emissions trading
Conference calling
This year's Energy Risk USA conference broke the record attendance of last year with more than 330 delegates gathering in Houston to focus on the latest issues in energy risk management. The Energy Risk team brings you some highlights
An air of uncertainty
As gasoline prices soar, the creaking US refinery system is once more under fire. Although today's healthy margins should encourage new investment, unresolved issues of green regulation appear to be curbing this. David Watkins investigates
The smart revolution
The smart grid is well on the way to becoming a reality, with some technologies already changing the economics of power supply. However, customers must be offered risk differentiated pricing for the real benefits of the smart grid to be realised, finds…
Islamic finance supplement - Chapter and verse
Derivatives
The CDO manager hit parade
With nearly 300 CDO managers plying their trade in today's global markets, investors are hard-pressed to decide who's top of the pops and who's a one-hit wonder. Rachel Wolcott speaks to influential investors to find out which managers they really rate
Bondholders turn up the heat in covenant battle
While 'covenant-lite' loans are grabbing headlines in the loan markets, issuers are being forced to add stronger covenant protection to get bonds away. Matthew Attwood reports
Column: Amy Falls
Markets are ignoring the likelihood of rate rises in the US. But inflation, dollar weakness and private equity exuberance may herald the sudden return of interest rate risk