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Lloyds' novel capital raising set to appeal to the wealthy
Lloyds Banking Group’s plans to raise about £7bn ... Contingent capital, which comes in the form of ... It will be marketed to institutions as well ... The common equity following the conversion effectively shores ... Amir Hoveyda, head of debt capital markets for ... Hoveyda, said: “Absent any major change in the...
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Senior HSBC Private Bank executive joins Citigroup
Richard Macfarlane, head of HSBC Private Bank’s Singapore-based ... Macfarlane, who will be based in Mumbai, will...
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Jupiter manager piles back into banks as outlook strengthens
Renowned financials investor Philip Gibbs has increased his ... Gibbs' £1.3bn (€1.4bn) financials fund at Jupiter Asset ... The latest figures published by Jupiter revealed a ... Gibbs last month predicted that bank shares would ... The news of Gibbs' dramatic turnaround on the...
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Investor confidence drops for first time in nine months
Global investor confidence has declined for the first ... Confidence fell by 4.7 points to 118.1 in ... The fall is the first in nine months. ... Ken Froot, Harvard University professor and co-author of ... State Street's index measures investor confidence on a ... The confidence of North American institutional investors fell...
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News Analysis: Are banks driving the equities rally?
The equities rally may largely be the result ... The equities markets have soared in recent months, ... In a statement today, Jeremy Charlesworth, chief investment ... “The banks have every right to use the ... It is very difficult to know for sure ... However, if Moonraker’s hypothesis is correct the upshot...
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Ex-Bear banking chief seals first deal with new boutique
The boutique investment firm co-founded by Bear Stearns’ ... BLM Partners, which was founded earlier this year ... AEG Power Solutions was previously owned by Belgian ... The acquisition was arranged through a rare reverse ... Lahnstein said: “We are delighted with the successful...
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Private bankers recommend equities push
Private bankers are increasingly bullish on the global ... Research conducted by Financial News of the investment ... Citi Private Bank’s chief investment officer Jeff Applegate ... Encouraged by the positive economic growth prospects, six ... Philipp Bärtschi, chief strategist at Bank Sarasin, said:...
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Independent research boutique launches in the UK
A Paris-based independent equity research boutique is planning ... AlphaValue, which was founded in 2007 by Pierre ... Last week Autonomous Research, an independent research boutique ... AlphaValue said it hopes to “revolutionise the equity ... Gabriel D’Assignies, head of institutional sales of AlphaValue,...
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Ex-Citi analyst leads new research boutique
A group of financial services professionals from the ... Consumer Equity Research received FSA authoristation this month ... The group will be chaired by Seth Peterson, ... The group has three other principals: Charles Allen, ... The business will be solely focussed on global...
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Goldman had 46 $100m days in second quarter
Goldman Sachs said it made $100m (€69m) in ... The New York-based investment bank said in a ... Goldman reported last month that second-quarter profit surpassed ... Trading and principal investments drove the firm's overall ... The company also said in the filing that ... A spokesman for Goldman Sachs declined to comment...
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Investors doubtful of IPO revival in Europe this year
Three-quarters of institutional investors are not expecting a ... The survey, carried out by UK-based investment bank ... The findings are based on a survey of ... European initial public offerings have a tendency to ... Shares in China State Construction Engineering Corporation shares...
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Q&A with Jim O’Neill: The architect of Brics picks the building blocks of recovery
Acronyms can often be the enemy of clear ... So it has been with the “Bric” acronym, ... The bank initially fashioned the acronym to make ... Here O’Neill talks to Financial News about how ... Financial News: George Soros was saying in March ... Jim O’Neill: The rebound has been due to...
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Analysts fear emerging markets equity bubble
Investors have been pouring money into emerging markets, ... Investors globally ploughed a record $35.5bn (€24.9bn) into ... By contrast, investors withdrew $61bn from developed market ... MSCI Barra’s index of 22 emerging market stocks ... However, the strong performance of emerging market stocks...
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Former BarCap banker sets up advisory business for wealthy investors
Barclays Capital's former head of strategic equities for ... Jérôme Laurre left BarCap in May to set ... These deals help companies or financial institutions with ... Some of the greatest demand this year has ... As reported by Financial News this week, bankers ... Laurre, who has more than 12 years experience...
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€4bn Barclays stake sale shakes up the market
The announcement at the beginning of last month ... In the event, the unprecedented sale was executed ... Barclays’ share price fell more than 10% at ... The shares were sold at 265p, higher than ... The largest take-up was in the UK while ... The spur for the Barclays deal was the...
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UBS rebuilds in equity sales
UBS has begun to rebuild in European equity ... Ben Watson returns to UBS as an executive ... Watson, who already has 12 years of service ... Another new addition to the beefed up team ... West, who has 24 years of sell-side experience ... In May and June, the Swiss bank suffered...
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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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Goldman ranks top in China
Goldman Sachs is set to pass the half-way ... The US banking giant has already earned $81m ... Its revenues have been bolstered by an estimated ... Bank of America Merrill Lynch is second in ... Overall investment banking revenues in Greater China total ... Goldman could further strengthen its league table position...
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Brokers stay long despite market recovery
Almost three-quarters of the trading ideas sent by ... According to the trade idea service managed by ... More than two-thirds of trading ideas logged by ... Trade Ideas Monitor is used by more than ... Despite this optimism about the market outlook, lower ... Credit Suisse sold a stake in brewer Anheuser-Busch...
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European investors upbeat on Russia
The majority of European investors believe Russian equities ... A recent survey of 30 European institutional investors ... However, the survey found that only 39% said ... The survey follows a spectacular rally in Russian ... The ruble-denominated Micex stock exchange has gained 115%...
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