Posts Tagged ‘ credit crunch ’

Hedge funds shaken up

March 2010 FT Mandate The ghost of Bernie Madoff is haunting fund managers, causing a chain reaction of transparency, regulation and a greater administrative role. In the past two years, the hedge fund management business has been shaken up like never before, with redemptions on an unprecedented scale, fund closures, asset values dropping and...

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Confused messages and idiot policies damaging economy

Finance Week, 13/01/2009 The latest interest rate cut is unlikely to help British business until people who work in offices actually do their jobs properly. While everyone closely watches Gordon Brown’s bizarre decisions, too many businesses allow idiots to stay in charge. Doing nothing at work is not a solution in this environment. Gerry...

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Cash scarcity for UK business while global private equity activity slows

Finance Week, 21/10/2008 New figures show that British businesses are suffering from a scarcity of cash while another survey shows that private equity activity is also reducing. Investment priorities remain with technology and training, writes Gerry O’Kane. New research shows that global private equity activity is continuing but is suffering from the weakest project...

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Lehman’s fallout on UK business

Finance Week, 15/09/2008 As Lehman’s affair drags global equity markets south and global banks find $70 billion for a bail-out fund, what are the ramifications for UK business? Gerry O’Kane takes a look. The rent-a-quote members of the City of London were remarkably quite on Monday following the news that Lehman Brothers had filed...

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Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

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Currency Investor, Active currency management is getting a new breath of life. As global economies lurch towards stagnation and the thermometer of equity markets...

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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

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Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they...

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Middle East: regional E-forex perspective

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Gerry O’Kane looks at growth in e-FX throughout the Middle Eastern markets and how resistance to electronic systems is changing rapidly in the fast...

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Timing: – just how important is it for achieving currency alpha?

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Currency Investor, Winter 2010 Within the equities world there has been some discussion over whether market timing is a viable investment strategy or simply...

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