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Floating in a northerly direction...

As Polar Capital heads towards an admission to London's AIM market, its CEO Mark Kary explains to David Walker its plans, and how it has kept its entrepreneurial culture despite surpassing $3bn in assets

Behind Solent's towering success

Solent Capital Partners has won plaudits - and investors - for managing collateralised debt obligations, and also for its credit-based hedge fund product, reports Solomon Teague

Foot on the gas

Gazprom Marketing and Trading entered the UK in 1999 with ambitious plans. Today it has a presence in six European countries and trades power, oil, coal and liquefied natural gas. Roderick Bruce meets head of trading Keith Martin and business development…

CATHERINE FLAX

Catherine Flax, global head of commodities marketing at JP Morgan talks to David Watkins about what makes the energy sector so unique

Jonathan Laredo

Change is in the air, says Jonathan Laredo, partner at Solent Capital in London. He tells Nikki Marmery how Solent is structuring CDOs this year to take advantage of spread widening

A mid-level playing field

Many banks across Europe are increasingly peddling derivatives to smaller corporate customers, and Lloyds TSB has been as active as any other, expanding its structuring and marketing teams in the UK to reach these mid-level clients. The Lloyds expansion…

Que sera, sera, but will you make money?

"If only we knew what was around the corner, we'd all make so much money." As such, our very own oracle, Solomon Teague, has dusted off his crystal ball to find out what 2007's markets may have in store...

Christopher Allsopp

The Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies talks to Oliver Holtaway about his fresh approach to energy analysis

GMO's emerging market high-flyers

Bill Nemerever and Tom Cooper, co-managers of GMO's emerging markets debt portfolio, have made their names sourcing cheap debt in unusual locations. Shunning roadshows and local currencies, they barely even travel to the countries they invest in. Dalia…

Geoffrey Gwin

The clues to bond selection are in a firm's income statement, says the chairman of hedge fund Group G Capital Partners. He talks to Dalia Fahmy about his $115m long/short high-yield fund

The Wild East

The fall of the Soviet Union and the end of its rule over the satellite states of eastern Europe came as a surprise to the industrialised nations of the West. But within a short time they had reacted: backing projects to secure Soviet nuclear technology;…

The woman and Man with a pension plan

Ros Altmann says it's only a matter of time until a large UK company is pulled under by its troubled pension plan. Is that a bird? A plane? No, it's Super Man (Investments) with a plan for the plans, writes David Walker

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