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Martin Fraenkel
Martin Fraenkel, the global head of commodities at Calyon, talks to Katie Holliday about the commodity he values most highly – people
Profile: David Slade
The chairman of the Loan Market Association, also leveraged finance head at CSFB, talks to Matthew Attwood about the path to recovery for the beleaguered loan market
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Legal advice
Legal & General is enjoying success in the retail UK market with its capital-guaranteed bond series. However, as signs emerge that customers are looking beyond the FTSE to emerging markets, the company's product offering could diversify away from vanilla…
The niche hunter
Retail investors in Germany have acquired a taste for sophisticated structured products amid a highly developed and long-established domestic market. But with so many alternative asset classes yet to be tapped, MPC Capital sees unique investment…
Incisive Itau
Banco Itau is one of the few banks in the Brazilian structured products market that is able to structure and distribute both capital-protected funds and synthetic structured notes. The fact that the bank can also hedge most of its products in-house has…
Buoyant bursa
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Spain reigns
BBVA's chief risk officer, José Sevilla Alverez , talks to Rob Davies
Winton Futures Fund - July 2008
Winton was founded by David Harding in 1997. Winton’s founding principle was the belief that robust statistical research provides the richest and most reliable source of information on market behaviour
Wyoming State - June 2006
Wyoming’s state treasurer begins searching for absolute return funds she offers some helpful advice on how to speak to uninitiated institutional investors.
Wessex Natural Resource Fund - July 2008
The Wessex Natural Resources Fund builds on the key strengths of Wessex Asset Management in the resources sector. WAM co-founder Peter Chesterfield is a geologist and mining analyst by background.
Vltava Fund - May 2008
Daniel Gladiš, the boyish looking director and lead portfolio manager of Vltava Fund, has never questioned his decision to set up in Malta.
Tulip Trend Fund: Progressive Capital Partners
Hedge Funds Review 2009 European Performance Awards: WINNER Hedge Fund of the Year
Trafalgar Catalyst Fund - July 2008
The Trafalgar Catalyst Fund is an event driven hedge fund focusing on strategies around corporate events such as takeovers, mergers, bond reorganisations, liquidations and other special situations.
Threadneedle Investments - August 2007
Flux is a good thing if you know what to do with it. In changing markets that produce evolving opportunities, some of the hedge fund managers at Threadneedle Investments sat down in London recently, to discuss the challenges and opportunities the markets…
Third Wave - March 2008
When Robert Birnbaum and Laurence Smith formed their hedge fund, they had a hard time deciding what to name it.
The Children’s Investment Master Fund - July 2008
The Children’s Investment Master Fund is a long-biased, value, opportunistic fund that looks for businesses in three situations: under-researched and undervalued; those waiting for a catalystan event to happen or those where there is a belief activism…
SVM Saltire Fund (EUR) - July 2008
SVM Saltire is an absolute return fund focused on generating alpha from long and short positions in UK mid and small cap stocks within a risk structure.
Stenham - February 2008
Stenham has made quite a skill out of making decisive and far-sighted decisions at the right time. Back in 1987 when long-only markets headed south, Stenham’s management decided to forego long-only completely in favour of multi-manager hedge fund…
Stanley Fink - October 2006
TAs Stanley Fink announces the forthcoming resignation of his CEO seat at Man Group in 2007, those who have seen the industry grow with him reflect on his achievements, and assess his legacy both for Man Group, and for the broader hedge fund industry.
Solent Capital Partners - February 2007
The structured credit area is again attracting the interest of investors, after many spurned the industry after the chastening experience of May 2005.
SilverStreet Captial - May 2007
SilverStreet Capital is looking to launch a pooled global funds of hedge funds product in summer, following on from the launch of its managed account service to institutional investors earlier in April.
Sabre Style Arbitrage Fund - July 2008
Sabre Style Arbitrage combines statistical arbitrage with quant equity market neutral strategies. This niche methodology is designed to capture longer term returns generated by economic cycling and short-term returns attributable to investor behavioural…
Resolution Cartesian UK Equity Long Short Fund (GBP) - July 2008
The Cartesian UK Equity Long Short fund is a variable bias fund targeting returns through both long and short alpha, in stocks across the broad spread of the UK market. Long positions favour companies offering premium growth which has been overlooked, or…