Profile
The yield extractor
Fundior
Rainy day in Georgia
Smith & Howard Wealth Management
Bucking the trend
Unlike most US distributors, Foldes Financial Management has serviced its high-net-worth clients by avoiding the main staples of reverse convertibles and principal-protected notes, with the aim of providing a low-risk and tax-efficient means of managing…
Tapping Tokyo
Profile
Curbing controls
BOCHK's chief risk officer, Alex Cheung, talks to Kathleen Kearney
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
Hold steady
Management
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…