Investors have long been urged to spread their ... This quasi-hedging strategy is fine in theory, but ... US investors who have tried to diversify abroad ... Over the 12 months to the end of ... Fortunes for UK investors, however, are in marked ... The overall data, however, masks a sharp difference...
Insurance entrepreneur Clive Cowdery had secured £600m (€691m) ... There were two large orders of £80m placed ... A second banker said this morning: "There is ... The initial public offering will be the largest ... The order book is mainly made up of ... Pension fund managers M&G, Standard Life, Legal and...
HSBC has launched a service that allows its ... HSBC said it started offering direct market access ... Kevin Bourne, HSBC's global head of e-equities, said ... He said: "Direct market access increases operational efficiency ... HSBC plans to extend DMA to other emerging...
UK corporate brokers could face unfair competition from ... Oliver Hemsley, chief executive of Numis, said that ... One example is Hoare Govett, the corporate broking ... "There could be a serious competitive issue in ... There has also been market speculation that Lloyds...
Independent bank and stockbroker Numis has hired 12 ... Since September 30, there have been two new ... Herecles Economides, has joined Numis as a managing ... Tim Rowntree has been hired as a managing ... Marcus Chorley joins the company on December 10 ... Mark Landa has been hired as a director...
UK broker Execution has hired the global head ... Simon Brookhouse, global head of equities at HSBC, ... Brookhouse joined HSBC in April 2006 as deputy ... He will report to Finegold and will take ... Brookhouse said: “The dramatic changes in markets and ... Finegold, a former head of equity sales and...
Hedge funds shorting UK financial stocks have made ... Since September 19, speculators have not been allowed ... However, Odey Asset Management, BlueRidge Capital and Tiger ... Barclays Global Investors has almost halved its position ... Barclays Global Investors did not return calls. Paulson...
When Barclays issued £1.25bn (€1.5bn) in mandatory convertible ... Although MCNs are not strictly comparable with convertible ... However, there is a question over the extent ... The 23% collapse in the UBS European Convertible ... After a brief fillip at the start of ... Similarly, equity investors can buy equity with downside...
Investors have long been urged to spread their ... This quasi-hedging strategy is fine in theory, but ... US investors who have tried to diversify abroad ... Fortunes for UK investors, however, are in marked ... The overall data, however, masks a sharp difference ... The Camradata rankings show even the top performing...
Here is one for historians. What was the ... The Somerset company’s share price started that day, ... But it turned out that the share price ... The lesson in how market prices are set ... One thing you can be sure of is ... So, it may be true, as Newton Investment ... Equally, as Investec Asset Management points out, the...
Hedge fund RWC Partners is to launch a ... Convertible bonds are securities that offer investors the ... The UBS European Convertible Bond Index fell by ... Peter Harrison, chief executive of RWC Partners, said: ... He said that the implied default rates on ... Convertible bond arbitrage funds, which buy a convertible...
The Financial Services Authority has proposed the creation ... Under the proposals, UK listings would be clearly ... There were concerns that secondary or global depositary ... Sally Dewar, FSA managing director of wholesale and ... Premium listings will have to meet the UK’s...
The UK Financial Services Authority has proposed the ... Under the proposals, UK listings would be clearly ... There were concerns that secondary or global depositary ... Sally Dewar, FSA managing director of wholesale and ... Premium listings will have to meet the UK’s...
Hedge fund RWC Partners is to launch a ... Convertible bonds are securities that offer investors the ... The UBS European Convertible Bond Index fell by ... Peter Harrison, chief executive of RWC Partners, said: ... He said that the implied default rates on ... Convertible bond arbitrage funds, which buy a convertible...
A large number of senior London-based equities traders ... Although the bank has indicated it will be ... Morgan Stanley made its last round of job ... Several of the latest cuts are at the ... Wunibald Gürtler, head of European programme trading, has ... In stock loan, several people have left the...
Merrill Lynch’s head of equity capital markets for ... UK Financial Investments, which was set up this ... As UKFI’s head of market investments, Crompton, who ... He will also devise and execute strategies for ... The move marks a return to Government work ... Crompton is the first senior appointment made by...
Analysts have three rating boxes – Buy, Hold, ... At the beginning of last month, analysts at ... Analysts are also issuing a record level of ... Despite their increased bearishness, analysts still rated only ... The last time there was a significant rise ... While the number of Sells has risen with...