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December 2002

Main

Cover story

And now for capital structure arbitrage

A model is simply a tool

Hanson is as Hanson does

Weinstein’s Household management

Bank mergers

HSBC helps tidy up Household

Private equity

Can Hands maintain his grip?

Latin review of the year

Small is bountiful

Asian review of the year

Humiliation tempered by small successes

Asia's best companies

Asia's best companies 2002: Hong Kong takes the cream

Asian 100

Asia 100 2002: Australia and Korea lead as others struggle

Leveraged finance

Boom pulls the right levers

Bahrain

Old leader plans a comeback

Greece

Rosy view gets a rethink

Private placements

Sheltering from the storm

MTNs

How to build a corporate deal

Financing banks

Bond market bites back

Bank capital

Basle II prompts strategic rethinks

Internet awards

UBS Warburg: Best bank on the internet

Internet awards 2002: How the banks shape up

Editorial

Pay for performance

Front End

It’s so bad it’s good

By Jorge, it’s time to seek more action

Get rid of the fat and floppy

Morgan Stanley’s 10Q blunder

Ill-fated room jinxes China Telecom deal

Spitzer bombs at analysts’ dinner

Market Monitor

Battle royal verges on full-scale war

Europe looks set for surge of high-grade big issues

Fund managers losing billions

Merit puts investors in the driving seat

Dividends come back into favour

Emerging markets

Tax uncertainties dampen foreign investors’ ardour

Deficit forces early showing for global bond

Aeroflot’s Airbus deal delayed not grounded

Oil test for Putin’s regime

Against the tide

Greenspan’s forever blowing bubbles

Deal Insider

Unlucky timing turns out to be Core problem

Financial Lawyer

Securitization bankers baulk at Basle II

People

Iqbal Khan

Fred Bisset

Flipside

Our man in Asia bravely goes mission critical