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Barclays Wealth seeks aggressive expansion in the Americas
Barclays Wealth intends to recruit as many as ... Since purchasing Lehman Brothers’ private investment management arm, ... Tom Kalaris, chief executive of Barclays Wealth, said...
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Barclays must give more data on Lehman
Lehman Brothers received the blessing of a judge ... Lehman said liabilities assumed by Barclays in the ... US Bankruptcy Judge James Peck on Wednesday approved ... Judge Peck said the extraordinary speed of the ... The ruling subjects the deal, approved at the ... Terms of bankruptcy sales are often considered final...
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The British investment bank is back
It is one of the ironies of the ... As with the Wimbledon tennis championships, which start ... But that could soon change. Just when Britain ... Barclays Capital, HSBC and Standard Chartered are all ... The past 10 years have seen a rapid, ... Fast-forward to the end of last year and...
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Europe’s star performers guide clients in turmoil
To describe the past year as “difficult” for ... As if that weren’t enough, laws aimed at ... Electronic trading specialists had to guide their clients ... Head of European client trading and execution, UBS ... UBS led the pack at Financial News’ buyside ... Allison joined UBS in 1997 as an options...
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Boutique wealth manager benefits from Monaco growth
A Monaco and London-based wealth manager, formerly owned ... Pier-Alberto Furno, who runs and owns Nemesis SAM, ... Furno reckons the tougher tax environment in the ... High end agent Knight Frank estimated in a ... Nemesis is the holding company of Furno’s asset ... Furno said: "There was a niche for providing...
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Barclays Wealth eyes swift acquisitions for global expansion
Barclays Wealth is weighing swift acquisitions as it ... Tom Kalaris, chief executive of the UK wealth...
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Broker snatches UBS credit team for European push
The UK subsidiary of a US electronic broker ... In a statement, Knight Libertas, part of US ... Robertson has been joined at Knight Libertas in ... The other four hires are Tom Goodale from ... All of Libertas' new hires under Robertson are ... Gary Katcher, executive vice-president, head of global institutional...
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Sizing Up the Rally
When financial advisors get together with their clients ... In view of the epic financial crisis and ... There is hardly unanimity among the top 100 ... She adds: "This seems like a stronger rally ... But Meyer and other upbeat advisors have their ... "Changing that mindset is going to take time,"...
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Hedge funds to face more scrutiny after Europe squeeze
Regulators will this week agree broad principles for ... At the 34th annual meeting of the International ... “The key issue will be to set high ... Consultation periods that lasted several months have now ... Hans Hoogervorst, chairman of Dutch market regulator AFM ... Tanzer said the conference would also look at...
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Wooing the wealthy
To paraphrase novelist Jane Austen, it has become ... A Dow Jones After The Crunch survey of ... The worth of the wealthy has fallen by ... But plenty of people have retained their wealth ... Advisory departments at several investment banks are, unusually, ... Ambitious young advisers have been quitting large firms...
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Barclays Wealth aims for top five position in global wealth management
Every year, Tom Kalaris, chief executive of Barclays ... The books he is currently reading may not ... They include Persian Fire, by Tom Holland, which ... He said: “We have a big opportunity to ... “There is a tectonic shift happening in the ... It should surprise no one that Barclays has...
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Derivatives go back to the drawing board
When the most powerful man in the world ... US President Barack Obama’s verdict on derivatives, in ... The collapse of Lehman Brothers, the AIG affair, ... At the same time, derivatives volumes have fallen ... Credit derivatives have received the most negative publicity....
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How to lose money and alienate people
At the opening of a smart art gallery ... Then she turned white. She had forgotten that ... The social dilemma is clear for all to ... Martin Lewis, founder of UK website MoneySavingExpert.com, says: ... Peter Wiman, a Stockholm-based venture capital investor, says: ... Wiman has seen friends lose their jobs and...
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US boutique prime broker hires from UBS
Boutique US prime broker Conifer Securities has continued ... Joseph Young, a former managing director of prime ... The past eight months have brought immense flux ... In this turmoil, hedge funds sought out new, ... Boutiques have benefited both from funds adding brokers,...
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Wealth-Bulletin’s 40 Rising Stars in European Wealth Management 2009 Part 2
The Rising Stars List – in alphabetical order ... Edward Allen, investment manager, Thurleigh Investment Managers, London ... Charles MacKinnon, chief investment officer at Thurleigh, a ... Piers Barclay, partner, Macfarlanes, London ... Appointed a partner in 2005, Barclay’s name is...
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Fuld eyes $32m from sale of luxury New York home
Six months after selling his $13m (€9.4m) Florida ... Despite the continuing fall in US property prices,...
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Fund managers set for bonus cuts
Asset managers will cut bonuses in a bid ... The impact of the market fall on asset ... Fund managers are already reporting revenues between 30% ... Paul Trickett, European head of investment consulting at ... Since markets began to fall in the wake ... A spokesman for the investment consultant said it...
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Ospraie unveils commodities-focused funds
Ospraie Management is unveiling two funds focusing on ... In a letter to investors, Dwight Anderson, the...
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UBS bucks trend with leveraged finance hires
UBS has made three European sales and trading ... According to a statement from the Swiss bank, ... Palamara joined from Citigroup, and will cover hedge ... McGuinness joined from agency broker Mint Securities, and ... On the trading side, Gomez will report to ... The hires come as US leveraged loans prices...
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Is JP Morgan now the best bank in the world?
It is always hard to say when one ... A glance at the investment bank’s record first-quarter ... Perhaps more importantly, the bank is sitting at ... One head of investment banking at a big ... Another senior banker talked of “near-obsessive JP Morgan-envy” ... Rivals reluctantly accept that JP Morgan will not...
