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Quantum UK Absolute Income Fund: Quantum Asset Management
Investors hungry for low-risk fund
Bonding exchanges
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Swap shop
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, under its chief executive Bob Pickel (right), is the trade body for dealers of, amongst other things, credit derivatives. As such, Pickel and his members are at the centre of a storm raging around the…
Rick Watson
Securitisation has been damned as the carrier that took the subprime contagion to institutions across the world, but the head of the European Securitisation Forum insists that the real economy needs this funding source more than ever. Matthew Attwood…
Central lessons
Central Coast Wealth Management
Perpetual in motion
Perpetual
Structuring with caution
Zurich
Bonding exchanges
The Bond Exchange of South Africa has been taking tentative steps towards expansion since its demutualisation in 2007. Now, its future looks intimately intertwined with that of its former rival, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Mark Pengelly reports
A debt of duty
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From Scratch
Vincent van Pelt, global head of equity derivatives andcommodities, Standard Chartered, talks to Rachel Morison
Vincent Van Pelt
Vincent Van Pelt is recognised within the banking industry for establishing businesses from scratch. Rachel Morison finds out what drives Standard Chartered's head of equities and commodities to keep starting again
CF Carbon Fund: CF Partners
Carbon trading set to yield high returns
Profile: Conrad Hewitt
The widespread belief that fair value accounting somehow contributed to the financial crisis is ill-informed - or so the SEC's chief accountant explains to Alexander Campbell
Chasing the new
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Fund fusions
Assenagon
Riding the storm
The Structured Product
A fistful of dollars
Actinver
Bridging the divide
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All in Accord?
Klaas Knot, head of the Basel Committee's risk monitoring and management group, talks to Alexander Campbell
LGIM Japan Alpha Fund: Legal & General Investment Management
A promising outlook for Japan
Eddington Macro Opportunities Fund: Eddington Capital Management
Searching for stellar managers
Aida Fund: Aida Capital
Safety found in classical investing
The matchmakers
Evolution Securities, a London investment bank previously associated with the equities market and its advisory work with small- and mid-cap clients, has branched into fixed income with the recruitment of two credit market stalwarts, Guy Cornelius and…
The City's boy in blue
For all the recent talk amongst banking chiefs and lawmakers of a return to a more 'vanilla' world of high finance, the sophistication of modern markets provides a fertile ground for fraudsters and insider dealers to operate without detection. To combat…