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| Issue 2 focused mainly on alternatives to the US sub-prime market. Topics discussed covered; insurance risk, investment classes and products largely unscathed by the credit crisis, FAS 157, prime brokerage systems, oil and inflation and volatility arbitrage indices.
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| On the spot - Barney Schauble, a principal at Nephila Capital, talks about his early start in the catastrophe risk business, his firm – an investment manager specialising in the reinsurance industry – and the future for the asset class it specialises in |
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| Open to interpretation - Islamic finance is booming with a number of countries around the globe this year announcing that they plan to promote the sector. But, while the industry may be enjoying explosive growth and increasing product innovation, it also seems to be finding it hard to stick to the letter of the law, William Rhode discovers |
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| Swimming against the tide? - The non-real estate ABS markets have suffered less than most other securitisation markets from the sub-prime and CDO crises. However, cautious investors have become pickier about where assets are coming from and which originators are bringing them. Denise Bedell explains |
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| Long-term shift - Commodity markets are no longer the exclusive domain of short-term traders. Instead, a wide range of investors is moving into an array of commodity-based investments. Michael Marray reports |
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| Finding value - Representatives of Markit, accounting firms and the buy- and sell-side met at The Yale Club, New York, on 12 May to assess the story so far on Financial Accounting Standard 157 The key issues that emerged ranged from the definition of exit price to where Level 2 ends and Level 3 begins |
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| Brazil, oil and inflation - Cristiano Souza, senior economist at Banco Real, looks at the interrelationship between the Brazilian economy and oil |
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| Pushing the right buttons - Winning hedge funds’ business has become trickier than ever for the major prime brokers as IT providers, as well as other banks, look to increase their market share. Rachael Horsewood finds that technology is the central issue in this changing market |
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| Volatility arbitrage indices - a primer - Keith Loggie, director, Standard & Poor’s Index Services, looks at the instruments and their context |
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