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CDOs reunited
Hybrid CDOs
Josef Bogensperger
Verbund's Josef Bogensperger talks to Oliver Holtaway about the impacts of harmonisation and the EU ETS on power trading
Biomass back on track
Generating power through biomass – corn, soybeans, trees, plants and animal waste – looks set to receive a boost in the US, after stagnation during the 1990s, finds Elisa Wood
Trading opinions
Energy risk professionals from all over Europe gathered in London last month at the Energy Risk Europe conference to debate the hottest topics facing the industry today. The Energy Risk team bring you some highlights
Platform for production
While a healthy flow of new oil is forecast to come on stream over the next few years, there's concern that projects will be held up by a lack of infrastructure, particularly rig availability and personnel, finds Roderick Bruce
Frédéric Desclaux
The co-head of fixed income and derivatives at Société Générale is swapping his suit for his sou'wester as part of his latest project: sailing across the Atlantic. He talks to Nikki Marmery about his
CDS volumes hit new record ... but processing backlog spikes back up
UK regulator, the FSA, talks tough on the backward step in CDS processing that has resulted in unconfirmed trades rising to 20,000 from 16,000
The third way
Cantor Fitzgerald's fixed-income research team
The great CDS debate which corner are you in?
Credit default swaps have become the instrument of choice for scores of credit investors - both for risk management and as another way to get exposure to credit. Yet there still remains a hardcore of sophisticated clients who continue to avoid CDS out of…
The LDI makeover
For all the hype surrounding liability-driven investing, few UK pension funds have actually taken the plunge and implemented the technique. The London Pension Fund Authority is one notable exception. Nick Sawyer reports
Changing hats
CHANGING HATS
Hartsoe leaves HDI
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Nish joins Standard Life
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Practitioner profile
Synesis boosts its team
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A mutually exclusive proposition
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Implementing choice
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