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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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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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Bulls v bears: what does the future hold for banks?
One of the biggest debates in the investment ... Huw van Steenis, Morgan Stanley ... Q2 and beyond is likely to be stronger ... Our industry discussions and the datapoints we track ... Take the following data points: ... - ECM is running over 3.5 times the ... - Debt issuance is running 7% up on...
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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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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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Compensation consultant predicts pay boost for traders
Bankers working in equity and fixed income will ... According to compensation consultants Johnson Associates, equities and ... However, it said the improvement in market conditions ... Nevertheless, Johnson Associates' sample of seven major investment ... In contrast, its analysis of eight public asset...
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Dimon points to competition as guaranteed bonuses return
Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive of ... Financial News revealed this week that banks including ... Speaking at the Sanford C Bernstein strategic discussions ... Dimon said: “We have some very smart tough ... A string of smaller boutiques including Moelis &...
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Top duo exit Russian broker after rocky nine months
Two senior managers have left Troika Dialog after ... The chief executive of Troika Dialog’s UK business, ... Snell resigned from Troika this week but will ... Pukas, who is leaving along with two colleagues, ... His responsibilities as managing director and chief investment...
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‘Hire me, I’ll work for free’
Some laid-off workers in the financial services industry ... Christophe Chouard, head of sales at French fund ... Headhunters said redundant financial services staff, particularly those ... It is not just the prospect of cheap ... Although the fund of hedge funds industry is...
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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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Investment manager hires former Stanford team
A US investment manager has hired three former ... Baird, which runs practices including private equity and ... Vollen worked at Stanford Group from April last ... US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission filed ... Federal agencies had had Stanford on their radars...
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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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European banks 'overvalued' after market rally
The recent stock market rally that has driven ... Since the beginning of March, stock markets have ... The European banks sector has led the rally, ... However, Credit Suisse said in a report today ... Analysts at the Swiss bank said: “We think ... This would mean an equity multiple of no...
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Top executive remuneration drops 91% at Macquarie
Top executives at Macquarie Group, the Australian financial ... Macquarie Group's top two executive directors, along with ... Including earnings from a restricted profit share programme, ... The company also announced that A$500m in deferred ... The company said in a statement today that...
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UBS' head of quant analysis and research quits
A member of UBS's fixed-income, currencies and commodities ... Steve Dugdale, who was put in charge of ... UBS declined to comment on the departure. Dugdale ... Dugdale worked at UBS for 19-years. Before becoming ... Felce left UBS last year and helped found ... Dugdale's resignation is the latest in a line...
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French private bank loses managing partner
Laurent Mignon, a managing partner at French private ... Mignon was head of asset management and corporate...
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UBS hires new chief of European credit in week of departures
UBS has hired the former head of European ... Derrick Herndon, who left Credit Suisse last year ... UBS has confirmed Herndon’s appointment. ... Kengeter, formerly global head of UBS’ fixed-income currencies ... Other senior departures from UBS in the past ... ... Raber’s other co-head was Michael Schmidt, who, as...
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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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Global downgrades hit record levels
Downgrades to the credit worthiness of governments and ... The previous record of 91% was set in ... Standard & Poor’s published its findings in a ... Diane Vazza, head of Standard & Poor's global ... In the US, downgrades represented 95% of all ... Downgrades of financial institutions also continued in the...
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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...
