People
Deutsche Börse loses CFO and COO in restructuring
Deutsche Börse’s chief financial officer Matthias Hlubek and chief operating officer Matthias Ganz have resigned, as part of a restructuring that could see capital distributed to shareholders.
RBS hires European ABS & CDO sales head
Steven Hulett has been appointed to the new position of European head of debt markets asset-backed security and collateralised debt obligation sales at Royal Bank of Scotland.
Merrill Lynch International chairman moves to Hong Kong
Kevin Watts, the London-based chairman of Merrill Lynch’s international subsidiary, will move permanently to Hong Kong from April.
Merrill Lynch hires two senior traders from Barclays
Merrill Lynch has hired two senior traders in Hong Kong – Herr Ling Yeoh as head of proprietary local currency trading and Amit Bansal as director of south Asia rates trading, both moving from Barclays Capital.
CESR elects new chairman and vice-chairman
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has elected Eddy Wymeersch, chairman of the Belgian Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission (CBFA) as chairman of CESR, and Carlos Tavares, chairman of the Portuguese Comissão do Mercado de Valores…
Citi opens prime brokerage office in Singapore
Citigroup has opened a prime brokerage office in Singapore. The US dealer says the move underlines its commitment to Singapore and the growing importance and growth of the Singapore hedge fund industry.
Deutsche hires to expand prime brokerage
Deutsche Bank has appointed Jeff Dorman as head of global prime finance in North America, replacing Mark Haas who has been promoted to the new position of head of business development for global prime finance.
Brokering with a personalised approach
family offices and derivatives
European managers "never had it so good"
A confluence of positive factors has left the European long/short space practically bulging with opportunity
Independent thinker
It took Tim Haywood quite some time to buy Julius Baer Investments free from the Julius Baer parent group. Now, at the group renamed Augustus Asset Managers Limted, he is casting his eye forward, he tells David Walker over a cuppa
More than painting by numbers
correlation
Swings and roundabouts...
Investment trust shareholders may once have been told to take the good of liquidity with the bad of wide discounts to net asset value. London arbitrageur Carrousel Capital takes a different view as its chief executive Bruno Sanglé-Ferrière explains...
The view from the top
asset allocation
Hanging in the balance
Cover story
Defending pensions
Profile
In for the duration
Liability-driven investment
Jeffrey Sprecher
IntercontinentalExchange's JEFFREY SPRECHER talks to Roderick Bruce about the inspirations and motivations that have driven him to the top of the energy trading business
Staging a comeback
A change in public perception, energy supply concerns and green issues are all driving a nuclear power revival in the US. Technological advances, financial incentives and licence standardisation look set to smooth the process of new build, finds Neil O…