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Manulife Asset Management has hired Oscar Leung, a former equities investor at ING Investment Management, to become a senior portfolio manager for equities in Hong Kong and China.
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Investment banks have taken tough decisions in 2012 — cutting costs and withdrawing from unprofitable businesses. With more upheaval likely in 2013, senior bankers without product responsibilities are vulnerable, writes David Rothnie.
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December is decision time. Do we participate in Christmas, party enthusiastically and power towards year-end with a pacey spurt all the way to The Finish? Or do we furrow our brows, disengage and push the Zimmer frame under the sign that says "Finished"? There are no prizes for guessing which camp I’m in. Get the Z-Celebrity sales-trader out of here.
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The cuts keep on coming in cash equities — with Citi on Wednesday singling out the business for its low profitability while announcing sweeping group-wide job losses. But some smaller players are spotting opportunities, writes Nick Jacob.
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While 2012 has been a year of strategic pain and contracting revenues for global investment banks, it has been one of continuing expansion for the independent Moelis & Co, set up in 2007, at the dawn of the financial crisis, writes David Rothnie.
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By far the nicest thing that Inn Securities has ever done for me — other than offering me a warm seat where I can sit out of the cold and see out the twilight of my career (it has been mostly twilight) — has been to buy me a pair of shiny, red ear defenders. They are the oversized variety sported by workmen wielding pneumatic drills or operating forklift trucks.