Profile
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
Profile
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
Delighted with deposits
Newcastle Building Society has been gradually building up its structured deposit business, including the launch of a new intermediary services arm in 2008. With the FTSE 100 index climbing and deposits backed by the government, the society is right to be…
Clear benefits
Mark Yallop, chief operating officer, Icap, talks to Alexander Campbell
Investor profile: Credaris
Scott Dowle, chief technology officer at London-based credit hedge fund Credaris, talks to Credit about 50%-plus returns in a bear market and the kind of tech infrastructure the firm deploys to manage its CDO holdings.
No looking back
Profile: John Whittaker