People
Fortis CRO moves to Asia
People
The lure of insourcing
Features
SPA newswire
North America
Structured moves
People
Forward thinking in Benelux
Roundtable
Taking the long view
Cover story
France's hedge fund face-off
Hedge funds
Trading begins at the DME
After months of setbacks, the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), the Middle East’s first international energy futures and commodities exchange, opened for business today.
On the move
People
CDO managers under scrutiny
Collateralised debt obligation
Raising the stakes
Second generation
Brown to join AQR Capital
Applied Quantitative Research Capital (AQR), a $37.5 billion Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, has hired Aaron Brown as a risk manager. Brown is due to start in his new role in late June. He joins from Morgan Stanley in New York, where he was head…
In the shadows
Counterparty Credit Risk
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…
Against the grain
While UK and Danish pension funds have been frantically buying up long-dated government paper, German funds have begun to do the opposite. Gareth Gore talks to the country's largest scheme about its own portfolio revamp
Cross-border confusion
Basel II
The pipeline cleaner
Chris Whitman, group treasurer of Deutsche Bank, talks to Alexander Campbell about maintaining bank liquidity
Collateral crisis
Collateralised loan obligations