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Bank of America CFO quits over Sarbanes-Oxley
Alvaro de Molina will leave Bank of America early next year after resigning as chief financial officer.
Rist joins Fortis acquisition team
Chris Rist has joined the London-based acquisition and leveraged finance team of Benelux bank Fortis.
West LB targets UK IFA market
German investment bank West LB has re-entered the UK distribution market with a product targeted at independent financial adviser (IFA) networks. The SSG Capital Protected Income Plan is the first product released by West LB's recently rejigged…
The woman and Man with a pension plan
Ros Altmann says it's only a matter of time until a large UK company is pulled under by its troubled pension plan. Is that a bird? A plane? No, it's Super Man (Investments) with a plan for the plans, writes David Walker
"My oh my oh my, look how you've grown!"
tete à tete: challenges for start-ups
Seizing the hedge funds' day
The Carpe Diem Group is setting up to capture the growth of the hedge fund industry in a number of ways, not least of which is building a Swiss bank and listing on London's AIM
Managers beware of US exposure in UK stocks
US long/short
Five positions you may find interesting...
traders' corner
Stop the presses!
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Multi-strategy: the flexible alternative
multi-strategy roundtable
Editor's Letter
Editorial
Lessons learnt
This year was one of unprecedented volatility for energy markets, yet it also marked a step-change in market maturity. Energy Risk asked some key players what they see as the defining events of 2006 and how they will affect behaviour in 2007. By Stella…
More than just talking about the weather
Energy Risk launched the Environmental Risk brand on October 17, with an e-symposium on the weather risk market, which attracted over 500 online delegates. A range of other online conferences on emissions and renewables will follow
iTraxx launches leveraged loan cds indices
The two new indices, LevX Senior and LevX Subordinated, which began trading at the start of November, are referenced to a basket of 35 European leveraged loans
The tools investors use to price securitisations
Evaluating ABS
Jilted Argentina bondholders appeal to World Bank in final throw of the dice
Creditors holding $20 billion in defaulted Argentina bonds are taking their case to the World Bank in an effort to force the sovereign to pay up, or at least return to the negotiating table
A covenant for change
A sharp rise in LBO risk - thanks mainly to private equity funds' groaning warchests - has forced credit investors to look to protect themselves by pressurising issuers to include more robust covenant language in their offerings. So does this mean that…