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It took Tim Haywood quite some time to buy Julius Baer Investments free from the Julius Baer parent group. Now, at the group renamed Augustus Asset Managers Limted, he is casting his eye forward, he tells David Walker over a cuppa

Swings and roundabouts...

Investment trust shareholders may once have been told to take the good of liquidity with the bad of wide discounts to net asset value. London arbitrageur Carrousel Capital takes a different view as its chief executive Bruno Sanglé-Ferrière explains...

The Guarded State

New Jersey's pension fund, under the direction of Orin Kramer, is implementing a relatively modest allocation to hedge funds, yet even that was too much for some trustees in a fund that had never used an outside manager before, as Phyllis Feinberg reports

Jeffrey Sprecher

IntercontinentalExchange's JEFFREY SPRECHER talks to Roderick Bruce about the inspirations and motivations that have driven him to the top of the energy trading business

Purva Sule

The head of the financial services practice at Pipal Research in Chicago explains why more investment banks are offshoring credit research

Floating in a northerly direction...

As Polar Capital heads towards an admission to London's AIM market, its CEO Mark Kary explains to David Walker its plans, and how it has kept its entrepreneurial culture despite surpassing $3bn in assets

Behind Solent's towering success

Solent Capital Partners has won plaudits - and investors - for managing collateralised debt obligations, and also for its credit-based hedge fund product, reports Solomon Teague

Foot on the gas

Gazprom Marketing and Trading entered the UK in 1999 with ambitious plans. Today it has a presence in six European countries and trades power, oil, coal and liquefied natural gas. Roderick Bruce meets head of trading Keith Martin and business development…

CATHERINE FLAX

Catherine Flax, global head of commodities marketing at JP Morgan talks to David Watkins about what makes the energy sector so unique

Jonathan Laredo

Change is in the air, says Jonathan Laredo, partner at Solent Capital in London. He tells Nikki Marmery how Solent is structuring CDOs this year to take advantage of spread widening

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