Profile
With the benefit of foresight: how Aspect Capital spotted the pension trend
As a swathe of reports on institutional interest in hedge funds are being published, Aspect Capital CEO Anthony Todd tells David Walker how they saw it coming, and prepared, back in 1997
Josef Bogensperger
Verbund's Josef Bogensperger talks to Oliver Holtaway about the impacts of harmonisation and the EU ETS on power trading
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
The third way
Cantor Fitzgerald's fixed-income research team
CNP
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Siemens
Practitioner profile
A new derivation
Profile: Rachel Hardee
Cognitive excellence and subtle insight
Copernico is among South America's better-known hedge funds. Ricardo Maxit, Copernico's CIO tells David Walker how the firm's two main funds work
How Manly Stanley raised a healthy hedge fund family
As Stanley Fink announces the forthcoming resignation of his CEO seat at Man Group in 2007, those who have seen the industry grow with him reflect on his achievements, and assess his legacy both for Man Group, and for the broader hedge fund industry
Antoine Halff
Antoine Halff talks to Oliver Holtaway about the pivotal role that political risk should be playing in energy risk analysis
Peter Bentley
Pimco's senior corporate bond manager gives an insight into the factors that affect the investment decisions of the world's largest fixed-income asset manager. Interview by Hardeep Dhillon
Sunay shah
The CEO and co-founder of CDO Software talks to Hardeep Dhillon about his aim to bring more transparency to the increasingly complex and opaque world of CDOs
Sainsbury's
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Pen-Sam
Practitioner profile
Coventry's cautious entry
Profiles
Private highs
A consortium of institutional investors bought a 27% stake in HSH Nordbank in August, making it the first part-privatisation of a German Landesbank. Duncan Wood talks to Hartmut Strauss, responsible for risk and finance at HSH, about the changes
PIPEs smoking as they head east
PIPEs are set to become more popular outside the US as firms list overseas to steer clear of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, PIPE fund managers Cornell Capital Management explain to Solomon Teague
Merrills sets sail for ever-expanding horizons
prime broking
Amine Bel Hadj Soulami
Amine Bel Hadj Soulami talks to Stella Farrington about his rise to global head of commodity derivatives at BNP Paribas
Swiss restructuring
As regulatory pressure on insurance companies to improve their solvency requirements increases, one reinsurer's reaction stands out from the crowd. Hardeep Dhillon looks at how Swiss Re is using innovative structures in the debt capital markets to…
James Vinci
As hedge funds have grown, so too has prime brokerage. Market leader Morgan Stanley's prime brokerage MD James Vinci explains the challenges of this business to Saskia Scholtes