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The White stuff
JW Advisors was established earlier this year by Joseph White, one of a growing number of intermediaries leaving investment banks to go independent. Now White is constructing credit diversified portfolios for institutional clients, who are reaping the…
Capinordic expansion
Capinordic Asset Management, part of the Denmark-based Capinordic Bank, is planning to launch a structured products distribution business in Sweden. Pierre Cooper talks to Johan Tjeder, the fund manager who has been brought in to help set up the operation
Starting from scratch
Zahid Molla, head of risk management, Afghanistan International Bank, talks to Alexander Campbell
Provisioning for the future
A growing number of regulators have highlighted dynamic provisioning as a means of lessening pro-cyclicality in the financial system. José Mar√≠a Rold√°n, director-general of banking regulation at the Banco de Espa√±a and chair of the Standards…
Eye on Asia
Alain Papiasse took over as chief executive of corporate and investment banking at BNP Paribas in April this year. Christopher Jeffery met with him in Hong Kong to talk about the French bank's strategy in Asia
Insparo Africa and Middle East Fund: Insparo Asset Management
Frontier of investment
Oakley Absolute Return: Oakley Capital
Growing a good idea
Tamalpais Global Partners Master Fund: Tamalpais Asset Management
Agile and prudent strategy pays off
Firm or flexible?
Fonchim, Italy's largest occupational pension scheme, has been spared the worst of the fallout from the credit crunch thanks to tough investment laws. But the question over whether to loosen asset restrictions may be back on the table. Blake Evans…
Profile: Henrik Raber
Standard Chartered's new head of capital markets in Europe, America and Africa speaks to Credit about where he sees growth opportunities in the months ahead
Highly cultured
Patricia Jalleh, head of group operational risk at United Overseas Bank Group, says that to achieve a robust op risk framework, a risk culture must be well and truly embedded within the firm. And no risk culture is perfect - it's a matter of constantly…
Benoît de Vitry
Our 15th anniversary profile series continues as Roderick Bruce talks with Benoît de Vitry, head of commodities at Barclays Capital, about his memories of the past 15 years and thoughts on the future
GAM Trading Strategy: GAM
Prudent approach to trading strategies
Martin Currie Absolute Return Fund - Japan Fund: Martin Currie Investment Management
Ignore Japan at your peril
Open dialogue
Profile: Rob Wainwright
In the zone
Operational risk
AA for effort
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Reinforcing regulation
Carlos Montalvo Rebuelta, secretary-general, Ceiops, talks to Rob Davies
Pimco's Pacific heights
Pimco (or Pacific Investment Management Co, to give it its full, somewhat unwieldy name) is the eight hundred pound gorilla of the fixed income markets. When the firm makes a major investment decision, like when it switched out of MBS in 2006, the world…
Michael Cosgrove
Our 15th anniversary profile series of key energy industry figures continues as Pauline McCallion talks with with Michael Cosgrove, head of commodities and energy brokerage, North America at GFI
The price isn't right
Former Saudi oil minister and head of Opec, His Excellency Sheikh Yamani, speaks to Roderick Bruce about his views on the past, present and future of the global crude oil markets
Full marks
Michel Marks, former chairman and board member of Nymex, tells Roderick Bruce about his role in taking the exchange from small potatoes to a cross-commodity powerhouse
In the zone
Profile: Chris van Aanholt
National participation
National Bank Financial in Canada hopes a new generation of exchange-traded funds, which break new ground in the way the products work, will prove as popular as leveraged ETFs and propel the bank to another successful year