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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...
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Financial stocks lift fund returns
“It’s time for us to put this period ... Hedge fund managers focusing on financials stocks have ... These returns are reported in US dollars, and ... Investors in Barclays enjoyed a further boost on ... As markets have started to climb in recent ... Banking stocks have done well from the rally...
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Listed private equity sector shows signs of confidence
Confidence in UK-listed private equity firms has shown ... The average trading price discount to net asset ... The average discount increased steadily after the bankruptcy ... The narrowing of the discount will be welcome ... One analyst said market prices had come down ... Two sets of results out today have shown...
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Barclays follows one-bank model in Middle East
Barclays has brought its wealth, asset management and ... The UK bank's operations across the region will ... The new role should help the bank to ... Investment banking revenues in the Middle East and ... Barclays already has strong links in the region ... Vitalo, a 43-year-old US national, has a strong...
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Survival of boutiques under threat
The chief aspiration of many a talented but ... Instead, boutiques espoused rapid decision-making, a more collegiate ... Large institutions spotted the prospects for the model ... Then came last year, when boutiques were not ... Practitioners fear that pressures facing boutiques threaten the...
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FSA probes Lehman structured products
The UK's Financial Services Authority is launching an ... The FSA and Financial Ombudsman Service said in ... The release said: "As a result, while the ... The FSA and Ombudsman have agreed that the ... Therefore, they have agreed that the FSA will ... Many in the industry concede clients have not...
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Exchange volumes signal return of market confidence
Europe’s stock and derivative exchanges have given the ... Transatlantic exchange NYSE Euronext said it performed 1.6 ... The London Stock Exchange performed 1.05 million per ... Meanwhile, Germany’s Deutsche Börse performed 750,000 trades per ... The value of shares traded remained significantly lower...
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The Other Shoe
AMERICANS IN THE PAST TWO YEARS have been ... But all the while, another important part of ... You can get a good idea of the ... But the commercial-property sector remains fraught with peril. ... Why has the value of REITs tumbled an ... Optimism about REITs has increased lately, in part...
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Neuberger Berman declares completion of staff-led buyout
Neuberger Berman on Monday declared the completion of ... A group of portfolio managers and senior professionals...
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After the credit crisis it’s the Not-So Rich List
It may not feel like a great time ... According to the annual Sunday Times Rich List, ... The number of billionaires on the list fell ... The financiers’ fortunes also compared favourably with the ... Philip Beresford, who compiles the annual Rich List, ... Across the board, super-wealthy hedge fund managers, such...
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Asset managers boldly go to new frontiers
The exploration of space, the final frontier, is ... Describing the lengths managers will go to looking ... Halbis, the active fund management arm of HSBC ... However, the voyage to these new frontiers, previously ... Strong emerging market performance in Brazil, Russia, India...
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Credit Suisse attracts strong wealth inflows
Credit Suisse managed to grow net new assets ... Inflows were up from the SFr2bn achieved in ... Credit Suisse chief executive Brady Dougan said: “Wealth ... The inflow numbers look even more encouraging when ... Despite the strong inflows, profit before taxes at ... Nevertheless, profits at the wealth unit were above...
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US investors fuel risk revival
Global investor confidence has returned to levels of ... State Street's Investor Confidence Index, which measures investors' ... The index, which was developed by State Street's ... Ken Froot, who helped develop the index, said: ... He added: “For example, monthly flows into US...
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Credit Suisse offers compensation to clients for Lehman losses
Credit Suisse on Tuesday offered cash reimbursement to ... In what is expected to be viewed as ... To qualify for the compensation, clients must have...
