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Eagle-eyed regulators make compliance and control allocators' key in loan market
loans/distressed debt
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…
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…
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...
Basel bonanza a boon for cold hard cash
While hedge funds may be used to holdings in cash management funds for investor redemptions, Basel II has given banks a greater incentive, to allow their use as collateral as well, Solomon Teague reports
The new foundation for hedge funds
Foundations and endowments are keen on hedge funds, but you've got to know what they want, write Jamie Wynn-Williams and Phyllis Feinberg...
The easy path to permanent capital Nirvana...
Listing funds is one way of raising capital that sticks, Alpha Strategic shows managers there's more than one way to skin this cat, as Solomon Teague writes
HSBC hires Miller from Natixis
New York-based Eric Miller has joined HSBC Global markets as a managing director, responsible for distributing and marketing structured products to third parties. Miller reports to Todd Fruhbeis, HSBC’s head of wealth management and structured products…
Credit Suisse joins global warming index world
Credit Suisse has launched a new global warming index, offering the opportunity to invest in renewable energy and carbon controlling stocks which are selected by the bank’s equity research and Holt teams.
BarCap investor solutions in Italy hires Boaron
Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank, has hired Fabrizio Boaron as a managing director and head of private bank coverage, Italy for Investor Solutions, the retail distribution arm of BarCap.
Foreign exchange - Algos a go-go
Structured products
Foreign exchange - Carry on regardless
Carry trade
Lufthansa
The German airline group stresses strong communication between those handling the physical and financial sides of the business as paramount to energy price risk management
Tales from the sell side
Asia, and in particular China and India, represents the largest source of project-related emissions reduction credits going into the UN's Clean Development Mechanism system. Oliver Holtaway speaks to Asia Carbon Exchange's N Yuvaraj Dinesh Babu about the…
AstraZeneca
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has restructured its supply contracts towards a more flexible model
Edward Morse
Previously a professor, a politician and now chief energy economist at Lehman Brothers, Edward Morse talks to David Watkins about his accidental career in energy
Tentative decisions
Private equity has shied away from investment in energy assets in the past. But as Ian Bagshaw and Charles Jacobs, partners at Linklaters, explain, some players are now starting to show an interest
South Korea hedges its bets
Corporate hedging of energy and commodity price risk in South Korea used to be the purview of a handful of large conglomerates. But a recent change in regulation has opened up the door to a whole new tier of potential hedgers. Local banks are now teaming…
Matchmakers
Post-trade confirmation in the energy market, once slow and prone to error, is becoming increasingly efficient due to the successful rollout of trade confirmation standards. David Watkins looks at how two of the competing standards have developed
End-user forum
Energy procurement and price risk management is an increasingly vital function for energy intensive companies, from airlines and cement manufacturers to supermarket retailers. Roderick Bruce investigates the challenges facing such companies in Europe and…