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Defence in diversity
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A two-pronged approach
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Building liquidity
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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…
Caliburn Capital rears the next generation of fund of funds thoroughbreds
Caliburn Capital's has a top-down focus on its institutional FoHF products, pursuing themes and those managers it deems most likely to exploit them successfully, as David Walker reports
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...
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A positive correction
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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
HKMC focuses on fixed income
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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
Seizing the hedge funds' day
The Carpe Diem Group is setting up to capture the growth of the hedge fund industry in a number of ways, not least of which is building a Swiss bank and listing on London's AIM
Keeping one step ahead of the innovators
Kilkenny Capital Management has been making healthy returns out of the biotechnology sector for more than a decade. Jay Blanche met up with the top brass while they were in London, to find out how they do it
Gearóid Lane
The Weather Risk Management Association's Gearóid Lane talks to Oliver Holtaway about the bright prospects for managing weather risk
Jim Kauffmann
The head of fixed income at ING Investment Management explains to Dalia Fahmy why it sometimes pays to play it safe. He should know: he is in charge of $65bn of investors' cash
From Paris to Asia
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Sovereign remedy
The World Bank, the lender of last - and often first - resort for the poorer nations of the world, uses derivatives to hedge its own risk book much as any other bank would. But it has another important role in the risk business: acting as an intermediary…
A feast of futures
Associated British Foods is significantly exposed to commodity price fluctuations. Anna Gordon-Walker asks the company's finance team how it manages these diverse risks
Plus ça change - how Polo Fund unlocks value
David Walker profiles Polo Capital Management's Polo Fund, the seekers out of catalysts for change and new paradigms to profit in the event-driven strategy