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Société Générale and Calyon launch new brokerage
Société Générale and Calyon have merged the brokerage activities of their respective subsidiaries, Fimat and Calyon Financial, and launched a new brokerage house called Newedge, based in Paris. The two banks will equally control Newedge and have…
Cool-headed and anything but distressed
David Walker met Mellon Global Alternative Investments' directors Derek Stewart and Scott MacDonald to find out how they coped last year and their plan for 2008
Single stock futures financing and the synthetic cash yield
Single Stock Futures
Staying cream of the crop
Domiciles
Taking the risk out of pension planning
David Walker spoke to Dawid Konotey-Ahulu and Robert Gardner, founders of Redington Partners, to find out how they aim to do just that ..
A prime time to invest
Choosing a prime broker can be a daunting task for any hedge fund manager. David Walker met Lehman Brothers' Gunner Burkhart for some tips on how to make the right decision and avoid the political pitfalls common in some investment banks
Employer beware!
Staffing
Fighting with firing
Staffing
The right moves
Staffing
A simpler way of life
Administration
Foster Smith
Foster Smith, head of US gas and power trading at JP Morgan, tells David Watkins his fast-track career path is par for the course in commodities
Emissions trading in New Zealand
The recent policy framework put forward for New Zealand's emissions trading scheme (ETS) make it the most ambitious and stringent scheme yet proposed worldwide, but concerns over implementation have sparked fierce debate, finds Roderick Bruce
Transmission possible?
US grid operators are hoping that a new stance on transmission planning will act as a hedge against an uncertain energy future. Yet such a strategy comes with its own challenges, writes Elisa Wood
Mercurial talents
Led by oil traders Marco Dunand and Daniel Jaeggi, Mercuria Energy Group's turnover has grown fivefold in only three years. Roderick Bruce talks to Dunand, Mercuria's head of global trading, about the company's rapid expansion and its plans for 2008 and…
The year ahead
From widespread house price falls and increases in foreclosures, to funding innovations and alterations in regulation, 2008 will be a year of unprecedented change and adjustment for mortgage banks. Mortgage Risk, together with a select panel of leading…
Storms brewing
Litigation
Protecting commercial real estate portfolios
Commercial property
A platform for success
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