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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
Profile
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
Joe Gold
Joe Gold, MD and co-head of commodities at Barclays Capital, talks to Katie Holliday about weathering the financial market turmoil
Galena Special Situations Fund: Galena Asset Management
Commodity fund targets upside
Fitzwilliam Commodity Plus Fund: BDO Stoy Hayward Investment Management
Value of common commodities
Dexia Carbon Fund: Dexia Carbon Fund Managers
Trading in the green market
Profile: Eddy Wymeersch
The chairman of the CESR and one of Europe's most senior regulatory figures talks to Alexander Campbell about oversight of the CDS market and fair value accounting
Beyond the AMA
Management
Looking up down under
Omniwealth