Book contributions by Risk Staff
Portfolio Construction and Management
Edited by Brice Benaben and Julien Jarmoszko
Articles by Risk Staff
Smart money
ION Asset Management has made quite an impression managing its Israel long/short equity fund, chalking up 34.7% net in its first year to 30 June. David Walker spoke with ION's co-founder Stephen Levey (pictured below) to find out more...
The best possible outcome...
Whether trading on exchanges or outside their boundaries, managers will find themselves compelled by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive to ensure they are measuring, achieving and monitoring 'best execution.' But London lawyers counsel…
Best of breed
Hedge Funds Review honoured Europe's most successful single hedge funds managers and hedge fund groups in July, in London, at its annual single-manager European Performance Awards. The envelope please, and the winners were…
Eagle-eyed regulators make compliance and control allocators' key in loan market
loans/distressed debt
Where change equals opportunity
Flux is a good thing if you know what to do with it. In changing markets that produce evolving opportunities, some of the hedge fund managers at Threadneedle Investments sat down in London recently, to discuss the challenges and opportunities the markets…
The magic of macro...
While getting the strategy and manager mix right may be the 'visible' end of a successful fund of hedge funds house, Permal's Omar Kodmani explains to Solomon Teague advances, such as those in technology are also allowing the $35bn London house to…
Market Graphic - Subprime haircuts
Matt King, global head of credit products strategy at Citigroup in London, explains how CDOs of ABS will be vulnerable to forced selling if subprime haircuts rise
Allen Sinai
The president of Decision Economics in Boston has advised five US administrations on economic policy. He tells Dalia Fahmy why he's turned more bullish on the global economy
Issuer Focus - Network Rail
Network Rail's head of corporate finance, Samantha Pitt, talks to Nikki Marmery about the company's unique historical legacy, its plans to start issuing debt from its own balance sheet and its renewed focus on index-linked bonds
Q&A - Robert Gardner
Under pressure to improve transparency, pension schemes are increasingly seeking to manage deficit/surplus volatility. The co-founder of consultancy Redington Partners in London explains how credit can play a part in that drive
Legal Spotlight
Powers extended to the new pensions regulator in the UK may make it more difficult for some merger and buyout transactions to take place. Bob Buhr explains how credit investors may stand to gain
The Big Interview - Tim Polglase
As a massive increase in covenant-lite loans sends jitters through the investor community, the head of leveraged finance at law firm Allen & Overy in London tells Nikki Marmery that cov-lite merely reflects a changing market dynamic
