Structured products
SPV Ruling: Counting the cost
The recent crop of high-profile accountancy scandals has forced the US accounting regulator to clamp down on the 'creative' use of special purpose vehicles to shift liabilities off balance sheet. Saskia Scholtes investigates the ramifications for firms…
Meeting Basel II head on
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Universal hedging
Comment
First Taiwanese offshore primary CBO to close this month
The first Taiwanese offshore primary collateralised bond obligation (CBO), worth nearly $170 million, is expected to price in the week of March 17 and close on March 21, sources familiar with the transaction said today.
Job moves
People
BarCap chief hits back at Buffett’s derivatives 'time bomb' comments
Robert Diamond, chief executive of Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of the UK’s Barclays Bank, has hit back at comments made by US investor Warren Buffett, who said on Monday that derivatives were “time bombs”. “[Buffett] should be wary of…
US Treasury department creates new financial institutions policy office
A new office that will focus on legislative and policy matters related to the financial services sector — including commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, credit unions and savings and loans — was announced yesterday by the US Treasury.
The SEC's E-mail Crackdown
Broker-dealers say vague wording in SEC rule 17a-4 will make compliance with the rule unnecessarily costly and burdensome.
Asset Alliance sues Beacon Hill for $500 million
Asset Alliance, a $4.5 billion hedge fund investor based in New York, has filed a $500 million arbitration claim against the mortgage arbitrage fund, Beacon Hill.
Serving the pension funds
Introduction
A hedge fund by any other name?
Regulation
Quantifying the op risk in investment fund valuation
Operational risk
The fashionable link
Inflation
New models for ailing pensions
Pension funds
Investors get real
Commodities
Securitising terror
Terrorism catastrophe bonds
The outsiders
Outsourcing
In need of reassurance
Insurance sector