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Collins Stewart Wealth Management hires senior banker from Credit Suisse
The wealth management arm of UK broker Collins ... Simon Whittley joins as an intermediary sales manager ... Whittley has over 12 years of industry experience...
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Goldman buoyed by 140% fee forecast
Goldman Sachs has recorded the largest quarter-on-quarter increase ... Revenues from debt and equity underwriting, and mergers ... Equity capital market was largely responsible for the ... Goldman is due to release its second quarter ... The world’s largest fee earner remains JP Morgan,...
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UBS makes big upgrades to investment banks
Analysts at UBS have made a significant upgrade ... The five banks, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, ... The analysts made the biggest upgrade to Barclays' ... Explaining the decision to increase earnings forecasts by ... The analyst wrote: “We now expect 2010 to ... Analysts at several banks, including JP Morgan and...
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Credit Suisse's Berchtold has big ambitions in global wealth management
Credit Suisse received more money from the rich ... In an elegant walnut-panelled meeting room in Credit ... He says: “We have a clear advantage over ... Berchtold, chief executive of Credit Suisse’s private banking ... It has succeeded in reassuring most of its ... Credit Suisse’s recent relative success came after a...
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Banking rivals battle it out to be Swiss champion
Little does as much good for national pride ... The celebrations don’t stop there: Much like Federer, ... Despite refusing government help and relatively little share ... Of course, where there are winners, there must ... In recent months, several high-ranking names have defected...
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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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Credit Suisse makes top pick among investment banks
Credit Suisse is expected to be the best ... JP Morgan's bank analysts said in a note ... However, they said it is clear that UBS’ ... JP Morgan has Credit Suisse and UBS overweight, ... The analysts added that they believe Credit Suisse ... “Although Credit Suisse is not a tier one...
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Credit Suisse subsidiary hires director
JO Hambro Investment Management, an asset management subsidiary ... Jeff Keen joins from TriAlpha Investment Advisors where ... Keen will be working with David Gibbs as...
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Credit Suisse engulfed in $400m ‘share-pushing’ scam
Credit Suisse faces civil proceedings for compensation concerning ... Victims of the scam accuse the Swiss bank ... The scandal was perpetrated by Trans-National Securities and...
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Credit Suisse PB hires Deutsche Middle East and Africa head
The private banking arm of Swiss bank Credit ... Mark Hirst starts as head of market area ... He comes from Deutsche Bank where he was ... Prior to this role Hirst was chief executive ... In this capacity he was responsible for a ... Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2005, Hirst...
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Top-performing convertible funds face 'bumpy' road
Investors in the best-performing hedge fund strategy of ... Convertible bond arbitrage lost 24.5% as a strategy ... During the first quarter of this year the ... However, Credit Suisse/ Tremont warns: "Convertible arbitrage...could be ... Convertible arbitrage hedge fund managers have been taking...
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SG investment bankers take pay hit as writedowns drag on profits
Compensation for staff in the corporate and investment ... Revenues from trading, led by the fixed income, ... This meant that despite the strong performance from ... Société Générale said the fall in operating expenses ... Analysts at Credit Suisse wrote this morning in...
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Credit Suisse PB hires senior bankers for Italy and Africa
Credit Suisse's private banking unit has hired a ... Anthony Richardson has started as a client adviser ... Richardson joined in January from Deutsche Bank. ... Last November, Raffaello Nemni was recruited from Swiss ... They both report to Julian Deasy, who now...
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Global banks alert to swine flu threat
Some of the biggest banks in the US ... The World Health Organisation yesterday raised its pandemic ... The number of deaths related to swine flue ... Banks in London and US are responding. ... A spokesman for Bank of America-Merrill Lynch said: ... A source familiar with Credit Suisse said several...
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News analysis: Credit Suisse oozes confidence at AGM
Just days after shareholders at UBS’ annual meeting ... While Peter Kurer was bizarrely confronted by a ... Kielholz had already partly won over shareholders attending ... On Credit Suisse’s Sfr10bn tier one fundraising from ... He noted the recent outperformance of the bank’s...
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Bank warns of 'false dawn' in fixed-income rally
Credit Suisse has become the second bank this ... Banks, such as Goldman Sachs and Bank of ... In a report yesterday, Credit Suisse analysts wrote ... Daniel Davies, lead European banks analyst at the ... He added: “Even in such a strong quarter, ... The report comes two weeks after European banks...
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Credit Suisse plans Middle East play
Credit Suisse is preparing for a push into ... Credit Suisse will start offering so-called direct market ... Such services can allow fund managers to improve ... Rob Maher, head of advanced execution services sales ... However, the launch comes amid a sharp decline ... The Middle East has been particularly hard hit...
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Art Loans Get Ugly
Of all the crazy loans handed out by ... As art exploded in price, both banks and ... But there are two problems with art: it’s ... Evidence of the first problem became apparent last ... UBS says it has never offered art loans. ... “Art banking does not belong to our core...
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Credit Suisse hires UBS head for ultra wealthy push
Credit Suisse has poached a head for its ... Blake Shorthouse has been appointed head of ultra-high ... He joins from Switzerland's largest bank UBS, where ... He will report to Alois Bättig, head of...
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UBS hires ex-Credit Suisse banker for restructure
UBS said Wednesday it hired a former high-ranking ... The Zurich-based bank said it will hire Ulrich ... Until August, former McKinsey consultant Koerner was head ... In hiring Koerner to oversee the streamlining of ... There, he noted that the bank's management is ... Wednesday's statement contained no specifics on job cuts,...
