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Armageddon averted – at 3.30pm tomorrow
The time to get back into the equity ... Taking his cue from charts of share price ... He said investors should be ready to reinvest ... Griffiths, a portfolio manager at Cazenove Capital Management, ... The FTSE 100 fell 8.85% to 3932 on ... Griffiths is unwilling to forecast price movements beyond...
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Ukraine becomes 'China of eastern Europe' after market falls
Ukraine's equity market has become one of the ... Ukrainian’s leading PFTS index yesterday suffered a continued ... This has taken the market's total year to ... Some of the worst hit stocks have been ... The decline comes as Russian equity valuations have ... However, the sharp selloff in Ukrainian equities has...
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European selloff ends as buyers return
Fund flows into European equities have turned positive ... According to UBS analysis of clients' trading, institutional ... UBS said that the net selling seen in ... The analysis was made from the Swiss bank's ... Broken down by sector, UBS found that energy ... Consumer staples and financial sector stocks have seen...
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FSA plans clampdown despite no evidence of HBOS manipulation
The UK's Financial Services Authority said today it ... On the afternoon of March 19, the FSA ... These rumours focused on a British bank that ... Market commentators speculated that the fall in HBOS's ... The FSA said today that its investigation of ... The regulator said that the rumours were circulated...
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Hunger for excess returns drives systems development
With unprecedented volatility in financial markets, funds and ... Traditionally, alpha generation, returns above an index, was ... John Jay, an analyst at consultancy Aite Group, ... As these front-office duties fuse with quantitative analysis, ... Aite Group puts the market for these alpha-generation...
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UBS beats the field in survey of European broker-dealers
UBS dominated this year’s Financial News Buyside Trading ... The survey provides a rare bright spot for ... The bank was named the top counterparty for ... Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley also performed ... Merrill Lynch was nominated the top bank for ... UBS and Morgan Stanley replaced each other in...
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Fund managers count cost of Mifid implementation
The markets in financial instruments directive has long ... The survey of 123 fund managers, who represent ... Rob Boardman, head of algorithmic sales for brokerage ... Clare Vincent-Silk, a principal consultant at Investit, added: ... The vast majority, 89%, of the respondents said...
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Fund managers shun conflicted brokers
More than two thirds of European fund managers ... Sixty-five per cent of respondents to the 2008 ... The heightened desire among institutional investors to punish ... The report, conducted by Richard Davies Investor Relations ... Of those who said they had detected conflicts...
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Hedge funds need luck, not tools
Almost a quarter of hedge funds were shown ... Olivier Le Marois, chief executive of French consultant ... Le Marois’ firm has published a study of ... It found that 729, or 23%, experienced unusually ... Le Marois said: “Nothing in their record of ... The study contrasted the 389 funds that did...
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World's first regulated fine art hedge fund
A new fine art hedge fund is being ... The Art Trading Fund, described by its owners ... Founders Chris Carlson and Justin Williams are corporate ... The fund managers will buy and sell a ... In 2005 Saatchi sold his Damien Hirst 'Shark'...
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Ivy League star Clapacs tackles change in Europe
The introduction of the markets in financial instruments ... On November 17 1984, Brent Clapacs represented Harvard ... Some 25 years on, however, Clapacs, now the ... Clapacs said: “This is undoubtedly an extraordinarily exciting ... Only one new trading system – Chi-X, the...
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