Securitisation

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…

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

BBVA poaches Isla from BarCap

BBVA has hired Lorenzo Isla from Barclays Capital (Barcap) as head of credit derivatives structuring. Isla will be based in Madrid and he joined from BarCap in London where he was head of structured credit strategy.

Beyond stock loan and margining

Merrill Lynch's Jeff Penney explains why the leading prime brokers have gone beyond talking about margin and lending, and why those such as Merrill Lynch have moved into the more elegant sphere of financial engineering for their hedge fund clients

Voldstad on the birth of DPCs

Connie Voldstad was head of JP Morgan's first dedicated swaps desk, established Merrill Lynch's AAA-rated derivatives product company, and was one of the six-strong team charged with winding down Long-Term Capital Management. His latest project is a new…

At your service

Hedge Funds Review gathered 10 of the administration industry's great and good to share their thoughts on the most pressing issues facing the industry today...

The CDO manager hit parade

With nearly 300 CDO managers plying their trade in today's global markets, investors are hard-pressed to decide who's top of the pops and who's a one-hit wonder. Rachel Wolcott speaks to influential investors to find out which managers they really rate

Repricing the loan market

The advent of loan CDS trading has highlighted a huge differential between yields on cash and derivatives in this asset class. Laurence Neville asks whether loan CDS will force a major repricing of the cash loan market

Back to basics: sukuk

We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask ... In part 2 of our special Islamic finance back-to-basics, the chairman of Moody's Middle East co-ordination committee, Khalid Howladar,…

Tranche warfare

Many investors have taken a negative view on US subprime mortgages over the past year through credit default swaps. But with the US Congress putting pressure on servicers to modify the terms of loans to help borrowers avoid default, those trades might…

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