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FPP expands Ukrainian investment-management team
Fabien Pictet & Partners (FPP), a London-based fund-management company, has recruited Daniel Rutz to head its Ukrainian investment-management team.
RBS appoints credit derivatives structurer
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has hired Marc Freydefont as senior credit derivatives structurer.
ISE announces succession plan
The International Securities Exchange (ISE) has announced its senior management succession plans, following the news that David Krell, president and chief executive, will retire on January 1, 2008.
DBRS strengthens EMEA structured finance group
Toronto-based ratings agency DBRS has appointed Niclas Sandstrom to its structured finance quantitative group in London. His appointment continues the growth of DBRS’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) team.
Dresdner Kleinwort makes forex hires
Dresdner Kleinwort, the investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank, has made a number of new additions to its foreign exchange team.
Calyon bolsters global high-yield team
Calyon has added to its global high-yield team by hiring David Weinstein and Stephen Elliott.
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Independents' Day
hedge fund administration
Hold your horses! debt managers advise
distressed debt
ABCDSreaching their (sub)prime
instruments
Why eclectic excellence is the key unlocking 3C's success
3C has an interesting range of funds and is launching into another based on options and futures trading, so bringing its investors returns from private equity, through to a Japanese product focused on the China growth story, as David Walker reports
The aspects of uniformity
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Due diligence for independent administrators
hedge fund administration
Man Group sets sail with Pemba into credit
RMF's European leveraged finance team now goes by another name, swapping the acronymically rich Man Group divisions' monickers for the name of an island in the Zanzibar archipelago, writes David Walker
Taking the inside track
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A turning point
Nordic Risk - Profile
Nowhere to run
Equity derivatives - Non-recourse financing
The hidden costs of climate change
The business risks posed to energy companies by climate change go well beyond compliance with emissions reduction schemes. Most companies that have taken climate risks into account have only considered half the picture, says John Firth