Credit/Opinion
The outlook for Ford
Talking point
Back to Basics
We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask ... Dominic Pegler, head of fixed-income strategy for Europe at Barclays Global Investors in London, explains how a bond is priced
Are we nearly there yet?
Amy Falls wonders when credit spreads will widen enough for investors to feel that credit risk is being priced appropriately
Legal Spotlight
US Congress is considering new legislation that could enable CDO issuers to sell greater chunks of their CDOs to pension plan investors. Todd Garvelink and Howard Mulligan explain
Understanding LDI
Selling LDI 'products' can be misleading, warns Peter Knez. Managing liabilities and assets is much more complicated than these 'solutions' suggest
European high yield
Marketgraphic
Back to basics
We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask... Rob Pomphrett, head of structured product syndicate at RBC Capital Markets in London, explains how CDOs work
Emerging markets sell-off
Talkingpoint
The eternal quest for returns
In the City
What's the difference between ABS and ABS?
Toby Nangle on the lessons the credit market can learn from a road safety experiment
Street Cred - Judgement day
Our new US column, StreetCred, suggests there may soon be a day of reckoning for the structured credit market
Unwanted orphans
In The City
Remixing helps managers get back in the groove
Peter Knez explains how to sort out your alpha from your beta
All risk, no reward
Don't be fooled by tight spreads in emerging markets, warns Amy Falls. Just because you're not being paid to take on risk doesn't mean there isn't any
The Godfather rule
New columnist Toby Nangle on why pension funds are playing with fire
Risk and reputation
As the post-bonus season's departures get under way, our regular In the City column asks whether we see evidence of a deepening fear of reputation risk at the top banks?
Fed up with hedge funds
Milton Ezrati wonders how the Fed can combat hedge funds' unregulated use of derivatives
Editor's letter
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Asset or afterthought?
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Editor's letter
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