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Perpetual in motion
Perpetual
Structuring with caution
Zurich
Bonding exchanges
The Bond Exchange of South Africa has been taking tentative steps towards expansion since its demutualisation in 2007. Now, its future looks intimately intertwined with that of its former rival, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Mark Pengelly reports
A debt of duty
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From Scratch
Vincent van Pelt, global head of equity derivatives andcommodities, Standard Chartered, talks to Rachel Morison
Vincent Van Pelt
Vincent Van Pelt is recognised within the banking industry for establishing businesses from scratch. Rachel Morison finds out what drives Standard Chartered's head of equities and commodities to keep starting again
CF Carbon Fund: CF Partners
Carbon trading set to yield high returns
Profile: Conrad Hewitt
The widespread belief that fair value accounting somehow contributed to the financial crisis is ill-informed - or so the SEC's chief accountant explains to Alexander Campbell
Chasing the new
Management
Fund fusions
Assenagon
Riding the storm
The Structured Product
A fistful of dollars
Actinver
Bridging the divide
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All in Accord?
Klaas Knot, head of the Basel Committee's risk monitoring and management group, talks to Alexander Campbell
LGIM Japan Alpha Fund: Legal & General Investment Management
A promising outlook for Japan
Eddington Macro Opportunities Fund: Eddington Capital Management
Searching for stellar managers
Aida Fund: Aida Capital
Safety found in classical investing
The matchmakers
Evolution Securities, a London investment bank previously associated with the equities market and its advisory work with small- and mid-cap clients, has branched into fixed income with the recruitment of two credit market stalwarts, Guy Cornelius and…
The City's boy in blue
For all the recent talk amongst banking chiefs and lawmakers of a return to a more 'vanilla' world of high finance, the sophistication of modern markets provides a fertile ground for fraudsters and insider dealers to operate without detection. To combat…
Nick Themelis
The CIO at e-trading platform MarketAxess tells Matthew Attwood how the company's technology helps clients achieve regulatory compliance
Aggregate wins
Pershing, the broker-dealer subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon, has consolidated its position as an industry heavyweight with the August launch of an online portal giving investment advisers access to hundreds of products. So how does it see the…
A simple plan
Changes to capital gains tax and the spectre of counterparty risk have done no favours for the German structured products market in the latter half of 2008. But with a level tax landscape due in 2009 and a move towards simple structures, Berenberg Bank…
Trimming the tenor
The Hong Kong market is undergoing a massive shift in the type of products that are distributed as investors opt for simple, short-dated, capital-protected investments because of uncertainty about long-term trends. Hang Seng Bank is even offering…
Brought to account
Conrad Hewitt, chief accountant of SEC, talks to Alexander Campbell