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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
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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
Universities Superannuation Scheme
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Kleinwort Benson stirs things up
Profiles
A new agenda
Profile: Commerzbank
Centralising the server
Yahoo! has been at the cutting edge of the internet revolution for the past 10 years, but its treasury risk management team has been relatively conservative in its use of derivatives. Jayne Jung talks to Yahoo! treasurer Gideon Yu
The ascent of Man
Profile: Stanley Fink
The weight of true institutional firepower...applied with a deft touch
Russell Investment Group runs more than $5bn in its funds of hedge funds, making it quite a hefty hitter in the FoHF universe, writes Solomon Teague. However, as Alex Trichot explains, size has not stopped the group from diverging from its peers on some…
Taking good care of investors' money
CARE Capital Group's CARE Offshore fund of hedge funds has produced 14.55% net annualised returns since inception. David Walker found out how
Gary King
Gary King, chief executive of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, talks to Stella Farrington about his hopes for energy trading in the Middle East
Vladislav Soloviov, chief financial officer, RUSAL
Born in 1973, Vladislav Soloviov, is the chief financial officer at Russian aluminium giant RUSAL. Before joining RUSAL he held key roles in The Russian Federation's Ministry of Taxes and Dues