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Sovereign remedy
The World Bank, the lender of last - and often first - resort for the poorer nations of the world, uses derivatives to hedge its own risk book much as any other bank would. But it has another important role in the risk business: acting as an intermediary…
A feast of futures
Associated British Foods is significantly exposed to commodity price fluctuations. Anna Gordon-Walker asks the company's finance team how it manages these diverse risks
Plus ça change - how Polo Fund unlocks value
David Walker profiles Polo Capital Management's Polo Fund, the seekers out of catalysts for change and new paradigms to profit in the event-driven strategy
Worlds apart? The differing needs of institutional and high-net-worth investors
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With the benefit of foresight: how Aspect Capital spotted the pension trend
As a swathe of reports on institutional interest in hedge funds are being published, Aspect Capital CEO Anthony Todd tells David Walker how they saw it coming, and prepared, back in 1997
Josef Bogensperger
Verbund's Josef Bogensperger talks to Oliver Holtaway about the impacts of harmonisation and the EU ETS on power trading
Frédéric Desclaux
The co-head of fixed income and derivatives at Société Générale is swapping his suit for his sou'wester as part of his latest project: sailing across the Atlantic. He talks to Nikki Marmery about his
The third way
Cantor Fitzgerald's fixed-income research team
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Siemens
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A new derivation
Profile: Rachel Hardee
Cognitive excellence and subtle insight
Copernico is among South America's better-known hedge funds. Ricardo Maxit, Copernico's CIO tells David Walker how the firm's two main funds work
How Manly Stanley raised a healthy hedge fund family
As Stanley Fink announces the forthcoming resignation of his CEO seat at Man Group in 2007, those who have seen the industry grow with him reflect on his achievements, and assess his legacy both for Man Group, and for the broader hedge fund industry
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
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Pen-Sam
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Coventry's cautious entry
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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
