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Little Rock, Ark.-based Stephens has named John Baumgartner as managing director and co-head of equity capital markets along with Wilbur Ellis.
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Michael Clarke, global head of counterparty risk operations and market infrastructure strategy at UBS in Stamford, Conn., has left the firm.
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Since the beginning of the subprime crisis, the world has experienced a long and sustainable high volatility environment. In effect, the risk embedded into every asset class has drastically increased. After the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the credit crunch became a global financial crisis, where we witnessed historic volatility spikes that generated huge losses within financial institutions. The crisis evolved into a sovereign debt crisis in the second quarter of 2010—an escalating issue as Derivatives Week went to press. The stage seems to be set to once again see investors’ money dwindling further, casting doubts on whether risk management is adequate across the asset management industry.
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—Clifford Davis, head of equity derivative flow sales for the Americas at BNP Paribas in New York, on the reason for the spike in short-dated tail-risk protection trades.
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Structured products that allow investors to profit from the depreciation of developed currencies against gold, as well as the direction of the underlyings within the product, have spiked in recent weeks according to asset managers. -
Carefully worded public statements that skate around the heart of controversial issues have been the norm for some U.S. industry associations and lobbying groups.
