| On the spot - Richard Robb talks about his business - a hedge fund successfully investing in structured credit and wind energy - teaching at Columbia University, and his views on crises past and present |
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| Lessons to be learned - The sub-prime crisis has changed the global financial landscape forever. The new market environment provides opportunities to improve historic practices and business models. Andrew Cavenagh investigates |
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| The wealth of nations - The range of state-run vehicles that fall under the umbrella of sovereign wealth funds are increasingly making investments beyond their traditional instruments of choice - government bonds. This has broad-reaching benefits for the global capital markets, William Rhodes discovers |
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| Structurally sound - Troubled credit markets have impacted the private equity industry in recent months. Ross Butler assesses the strength of the sector’s business model throughout the economic cycle |
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| All part of the process - Plenty has been achieved in the field of OTC derivatives processing in the last few years, particularly with credit derivatives. However, more progress still needs to be made across the major derivatives asset classes, as Simon Boughey explains |
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| The race is on - Robert Barnes, md, equities at UBS Investment Bank and chairman of the securities and trading committee of the London Investment Banking Association, highlights the continuing impact of MiFID on the European financial landscape |
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| Reverse technicals? - Nosheen Khan, director of valuations at Markit, looks at the technical factors driving the corporate credit market |
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| Changing the rules - Michael Hampden-Turner, Ratul Roy and Matt King of the structured credit strategy group at Citi take a look at proposals for structured credit rating reform, and suggest some changes of their own |
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