Credit markets
MFS Investment Management: Smoothing out the bumps
As seasoned investors will tell you, putting your money in emerging markets can be a rough ride. The highs may be high, but the lows can be even lower. The emerging markets debt team at MFS Investment Management are aiming to give their investors a…
Q&A: Dennis Tracey & David Dunn
Banks are braced for a wave of litigation arising from the subprime crisis. But, as partners at law firm Hogan & Hartson point out, it won't just be subprime lenders that are facing law suits
Column: Andrew Kasapis
Hedge funds are using correlation strategies to take advantage of widening CDS spreads
Column: Nigel Sillis
The structured products that were once viewed as the F1 cars of the financial world - complex, efficient, high-performance - are now looking more like exhibits from Wacky Races
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…
Legal Spotlight
ABS investors may shudder at the mention of the word 'subprime', but that shouldn't deter issuers from using securitisation to raise capital. In our special extended feature, Neal Handa and Bruce Bloomingdale look at how the credit crisis has affected…
Clearing house for derivatives back on the agenda
Widespread uncertainty over counterparty risk, crystallised by the collapse of Bear Stearns, has prompted dealers to resurrect talks aimed at setting up a clearing house for credit derivatives
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…
The AMA maze
OPRISK EUROPE
Calling time
Pension Buyouts
The lone star
Tri-Star Financial
Escaping the fees maze
Cover Story
Mifid in the risk mix
Regulation
Accumulated risk
Markets
Discorso chiuso?
Cartolarizzazioni
La tabella della discordia
Basilea 2
Copule archimediane implicite nei dati di mercato
Approfondimenti. Derivati creditizi
