Insurance
Where change equals opportunity
Flux is a good thing if you know what to do with it. In changing markets that produce evolving opportunities, some of the hedge fund managers at Threadneedle Investments sat down in London recently, to discuss the challenges and opportunities the markets…
Tentative decisions
Private equity has shied away from investment in energy assets in the past. But as Ian Bagshaw and Charles Jacobs, partners at Linklaters, explain, some players are now starting to show an interest
AFT to the fore?
Sovereigns
The Shape of things to come
Tetragon is one of a new breed of hedge funds trying their luck as a publicly traded company. Following its IPO in April, it hopes to bring its specialist brand of highly managed CLOs to a wider pool of equity investors. Dalia Fahmy speaks to the firm's…
Legal Spotlight
Powers extended to the new pensions regulator in the UK may make it more difficult for some merger and buyout transactions to take place. Bob Buhr explains how credit investors may stand to gain
Q&A - Robert Gardner
Under pressure to improve transparency, pension schemes are increasingly seeking to manage deficit/surplus volatility. The co-founder of consultancy Redington Partners in London explains how credit can play a part in that drive
Issuer Focus - Network Rail
Network Rail's head of corporate finance, Samantha Pitt, talks to Nikki Marmery about the company's unique historical legacy, its plans to start issuing debt from its own balance sheet and its renewed focus on index-linked bonds
Short investing for the long haul
Today's short selling processes may be more refined, but industry best practice is still a way off, says Michael Marburg of Ramsey Asset Management
Operating optimally
The increase in energy trading in recent years has brought significant opportunities but also a rise in operational risk, leaving systems struggling to keep up. Barney Brown at Detica identifies some areas of operational risk deriving from both internal…
Investors go green
More and more private equity firms are entering the renewable energy space. For some firms, this means adjusting their traditional investment approach. Tom Murley of HgCapital speaks to Oliver Holtaway about the prizes and pitfalls of investing in…
The Parthenon freeze
Features
Betting against the firm
Editor's Letter
Uncharted waters
Practitioner Profile
Risk Sharing - Constructing sustainable pensions
Technical papers
