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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
Features
A political matter
Cover story
Oechslin new Munich Re CRO
People
The expectation game
Practitioner profile
Positive profit
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