| Talking Business - Bill Ford, chief executive officer of General Atlantic, talks about how his private equity firm drives growth as well as captures it, and where he sees new opportunities emerging |
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| Credit's next top model - With more new mandates and consistently higher risk adjusted returns, Aviva Investors remains one of the world's largest fixed income players. But its credit management team is attracting more attention thanks to a makeover by Mark Wauton. Rachael Horsewood reports |
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| Frayed around the edges - The eurozone sovereign debt crisis is testing the single currency to the extreme, with the fragile state of the peripherals putting strain on the core. Gavan Nolan at Markit assesses the likely shape of Europe’s landscape |
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| Tearing down the "maturity wall" - As the refinancing of a glut of maturing
loans collides with investors seeking high yields in a low interest rate environment, it is turning out to be a year of rapid growth for the leveraged finance markets, writes Mathew Cestar, head of leveraged finance, EMEA at Credit Suisse |
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| The Persephone complex - Intuitive acceptance of irrational ideas coloured the Ancient Greeks’ view of the world. It even persists today in the financial markets, skewing the arguments around transparency, writes Eugene McErlean, advisor to Transparency International Ireland |
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| Reddy steady go - February 2011 saw the first certification of a project in the $143bn-plus global carbon markets to earn carbon credits achieved by preserving forests. This was a landmark moment for Redd (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), which, it is hoped, will be a cornerstone of the fight against climate change. Mike Scott writes |
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| Ratio rationale - Tushar Morzaria, chief financial officer of J.P. Morgan Investment Bank, analyses how the new capital requirements and their timetable for implementation affect the major banks’ business models |
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| A QuIC revolution - Broad changes in market practice are combining with
technological advances to create faster, more accurate pricing and counterparty credit risk management, write Nosheen Khan and Paul Jones at Markit |
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| How to make money in microseconds - Last year’s “flash crash”, when tangled algorithms caused violent fluctuations in share prices, highlighted what a difference a fraction of a second makes, writes Professor Donald MacKenzie, chair in sociology at the University of Edinburgh |
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| Assets ascendant - David Chang, assistant president of Guotai AMC, discusses his views on China’s explosive growth |
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| Markit data with analysis - The Markit Commentary & Data team puts the events of the past few months into perspective |
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