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Middle East crisis revives demand for VKOs – with a twist
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Middle East crisis revives demand for VKOs – with a twist
Equity investors balance fear and optimism by pairing 2022’s best hedge with lookback options
15 Apr 2026
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News
Markets
Small bond fund breaks ranks with bumper sovereign CDS bets
Counterparty Radar: Boston Management and Research builds sizeable protection-heavy positions across narrower set of issuers
14 Apr 2026
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News
Views
In the age of GenAI, why do we still need good models?
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud says models can guide artificial intelligence through regime shifts and away from overfitting
13 Apr 2026
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Opinion
Our take
Iran confusion makes the case for causal modelling
A new test model built using Claude suggests oil prices may surge back above $100
10 Apr 2026
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Opinion
Markets
Mutual funds are trading inflation like it’s 2022 again
Counterparty Radar: USD CPI notionals hit record levels even before March’s jump in energy prices
07 Apr 2026
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News
Investing
The MIT professor giving LLMs a ‘brain scan’
Hui Chen’s research is yielding new ways to interpret – and steer – AI models
06 Apr 2026
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Interview
Markets
Russell’s flexi hedging aims to tame jumpy yen
Japanese clients can dynamically switch hedging profile based on USD/JPY movements
03 Apr 2026
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Profile
Our take
Credit market maths seems not to add up
Today’s investors would appear to be better off buying ‘riskier’ debt
02 Apr 2026
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Opinion
Markets
How the Iran war wreaked havoc on consensus US rates trades
Hedge fund steepeners, swap spreads and vol-selling strategies were hit as conflict forced stop-outs during March
01 Apr 2026
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News
Markets
Two fund managers behind surge in ETF options
Counterparty Radar: New data shows notional for the instrument rivals that of equity index options
01 Apr 2026
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News