Cleanbiz Asia.com May 14th, 2011 Private equity companies, banks and funds are throwing money at cleantech projects in China but other parts of Asia are also set to get large amounts of investment. A slew of recent announcements back up a report just released by World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) that China spent...
FT Mandate, October 2008 Volatility trading is no longer the preserve of hedge funds as traditional investors look to exploit the huge spikes in the market. By Gerry O’Kane. The one consistency the markets have been showing in recent months is volatility. Where there is movement, the investment sector finds opportunity and in recent...
FT Mandate, November 2005 Equity derivatives have made massive progress in traditionally untapped markets partly due to institutions having to reduce their equity allocations but not wanting to. Gerry O’Kane charts the rise of the asset class and provides an insight into the different types of products on offer. It is always bad for...
Benchmark, Fourth Quarter 1999 London, Friday December 31, 1999: 17.10pm: James Bufton-Tufton, head dealer at Securities 2000, looks panicked as a call light begins flashing on his desktop satellite phone – it’s the satellite line from Jakarta. The office stops. He reaches across and flicks the switch, “Yes.” “Hidiyat, here in the Jakarta office,”...
