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Measuring success
A cutting-edge survey by McKinsey & Company reveals which types of trading are most prevalent and successful among utilities. Using survey data, McKinsey's Jörg Doege, Sven Heiligtag and Peter De Wit suggest guidelines for creating successful trading and…
Commissioning change
Ferc chairman Joseph Kelliher talks with David Watkins about his views on the US energy markets, the Ferc's competition review and what needs doing next
Société Générale
Oil and Products House of the Year
JDA analysis: Moody’s fights back
Moody's senior execs Ray McDaniel and Brian Clarkson speak out about the JDA debacle
The Big Interview: Chris Flanagan
Following the crisis in subprime mortgages in the US, the head of global structured finance research at JPMorgan in New York talks to Dalia Fahmy about spillover risks for auto loans
CPDOs: riding the wave
11. CPDOs
The CDO Factory
CDO boutique Cohen & Company has emerged as a major force in the structured credit market. But as a niche operator, it has to think and act fast to stay ahead of the competition. Dalia Fahmy talks to senior management and discovers that the key is…
Russia wakes up to ABS
After years of being the 'next big thing', the Russian asset-backed securitisation market has finally arrived. Laurence Neville looks at the factors that have caused this sleeping giant to awaken
Q&A: Laura Fazio
The head of media and entertainment in the Americas at Dresdner Kleinwort in New York explains what film distribution securitisations offer investors
Canaras Capital
Anthony Clemente, chief executive of New York-based investment manager Canaras Capital, talks to Victor Anderson about the challenges facing a start-up business in the 'alternative' fund management space, including the thorny issue of transparency
CDOs: what does the future hold?
12. the outlook
Banks scramble to set up illiquid trading desks
The tight spread environment has forced banks to seek out ever more esoteric assets to structure, setting up specialist trading desks in the process
Florence Lombard
The executive director of the Alternative Investment Management Association in London talks to Nikki Marmery about the current challenges of representing the hedge fund industry
May 2007
CHANGING HATS
The mystique of structured products
Editor's letter
CDO managers - Do the ends justify the fees?
Credit Risk
The challenge of diversity
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