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Reality check
Equity hedged portfolios with a bias toward the US are popular in the market at present
GHK's debut hedge fund targets institutions and funds of funds
the GHK first equity hedge fund lists on the irish exchange
Getting a head start
COO of Avocet Capital sets out five lessons to follow when starting up a hedge fund
IMF seeks scrutiny of insurers' credit risk
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says greater information about insurers' financial markets activities – including credit risk transfers – is needed before their implications for financial stability can be clearly ascertained.
Firms Voice Frustration over FSA Continuity Plans
Firms say "toothless" disaster recovery guidelines will result in inconsistent plans.
Boom time for distressed debt
Distressed debt
CLNs come of age
Technical
Credit analysts of the year 2002
Credit awards 2002
Bondholders versus shareholders
Sponsored article
RBS hiring spree
People news
Equity poses the big questions
Roundtable
The market bondsman
Profile
Why won’t banks grasp the op risk nettle?
OP RISK MANAGEMENT
Banks must nourish sound risk culture, Spanish central bank chief urges
OP RISK MANAGEMENT
Banks clambering to set up FX shops in Boston
Bear Stearns and Royal Bank of Scotland are among a raft of international banks setting up forex sales desks in Boston. The banks are attempting to take advantage of the centre's established pensions and mutual funds client base, market participants told…
KWI joins national energy committee
Software provider KWI has become the latest company to join the executive committee of the National Energy Marketers Association (Nem), a trade body representing energy, telecoms and financial services marketers and consumers.
Q1 scapegoats: energy and weather
Risk’s second quarterly round-up of corporate risk disclosures provides some evidence that companies are becoming more forthcoming. But losses on hedgeable exposures, especially energy and weather, continued to plague many
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “Chairman Harvey Pitt [of the US Securities and Exchange Commission] and I are in close contact, and I sometimes hope that every conversation I have with him will be the last on the single-stock futures issue” James Newsome,…
Getting the deal done
Falling equity valuations have made funding a merger or acquisition with stock difficult. Equity derivatives dealers are devising and updating hedges to ensure deals get done despite the bear market. Rob Dwyer examines the latest techniques