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The right choices
Due diligence is essential when selecting an administrator to ensure a life-long relationship
Changing aspects
Trading in over 100 markets brings in an estimated long-term capital growth of more than 20% pa
Getting the low down
What are the benefits of covered warrants, the newest kid on the leveraged product block?
Hancock, Merton and Mendoza launch Integrated Finance
Integrated Finance (IFL), the brainchild of Peter Hancock, Robert Merton and Roberto Mendoza – and one of Wall Street’s worst kept secrets – has officially opened for business.
AIB promotes capital markets head
Allied Irish Banks (AIB) has made its capital markets head, Colm Doherty, an executive director of the bank.
CLS hires ABN Amro’s Butterfield
Jonathan Butterfield has joined CLS Bank in New York as executive vice-president, marketing and communication.
Facing the Quest
With returns of 8.22% in the past year, Collins Stewart's strict portfolio decisions are made through its own ranking system
Nine out of 10 long/short hedge funds fall below their watermark
Tremont survey spells bad news for industry as most hedge funds, globally, show big shortfalls
Finding the right balance
Rebalancing hedge fund of fund portfolios for optimal performance in a treacherous bear market poses difficulties
Shariah Funds Inc introduces the first Islamic hedge fund aided by scholars
Islamic hedge fund market could be worth trillions in assets under managemenT
Uncertain Latin America adds to current difficulties for year ahead
Brazil's economy is not growing, making its situation unsustainable
Talent spotting
With the competition growing within the markets, looking for experienced salespeople is proving difficult
BofA pushes out Goldie-Morrison
Duncan Goldie-Morrison, head of the global markets group at Banc of America Securities in New York, has become the latest high-profile casualty in the long list of Wall Street redundancies. His position has been abolished as part of another large…
Mark-it plans to offer data pricing service for structured credit
Mark-it Partners, a two-year-old company founded by senior bankers at Canada’s Toronto Dominion, is in advanced negotiations to set up a data pricing service for collateralised debt obligations (CDOs). If successful, this could become the first such…