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September 2003

Main

Cover Story

The new breed

Boutiques revive a reviled industry

Consensus-shy Violy starts afresh

The new advisers reinventing investment banks

The new fund managers

Specialists

Emerging markets

Technology firms

Fund management

Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian: The emerging markets heavyweight

Middle East

Slim pickings for Iraq's neighbours

Liberalization takes a firmer grip

Dilemmas of diversification

Finance minister of the year 2003: Taking stock of a volatile situation

Equity market set for a boost

Shariah-compliant banking takes centre stage

Arab 100 2003:On the mend after a poor year

Egypt keeps going its own way

Opportunity knocks on the Islamic front

Taint of controversy

Money-laundering controls look all washed up

Somali financial network hit hard by hyperbole

Debt markets

Making the right move in fixed income

What are you really worth?

RBS steps hiring up a gear

Global financing guide

Global financing 2003: Selling more products to fewer clients

Emerging Europe

Electoral imperatives

A mini boom bust cycle

The foreign investment mystery

More heat than light

Oligarchs pile up away goals

Investors delve at margins for yield

Reform stumbles as Dinkic falls

Surviving the resource curse

Zero margin for mistakes

Sinking or sailing together

A coincidental bargain

Corporate governance poll

Corporate governance 2003: Good practice boosts performance

Asia Pacific

China's currency conundrum

A lot of steel to build steel plants

Foreigners climb on board China's A-train

Mongolia's uncertain future

Could the Philippines fall to the Pac Man?

World Bank/IMF

Raghuram Rajan: The oxygen of competition

IMF Delegates - Africa

IMF Delegates - Asia Pacific

IMF Delegates - Emerging Europe

IMF Delegates - Latin and North America

IMF Delegates - Middle East

IMF Delegates - Western Europe

IMF Handbook - Useful numbers

Finance Minister of the Year

Saudi Arabia moves beyond oil

Central bank governor of the year

Central bank governor of the year 2003: Kazakhstan sets CIS banking standard

Country risk

Country risk Sep 2003: Measured enthusiasm on east Asian boom

Latin America

A hunt for new dictators of growth

Latin 100 2003: Brazilian banks profit as foreigners quit

Editorial

Why bank merger mania looms

Front End

Allianz still half in love

Russians find joys in junk

Here comes debt swap man again

A vice little earner

Bankers get in guitar groove

Breakingviews

Breaking views: Till the bulls come home

Breaking Views: Insurers close ranks against fair value

Market Monitor

When reality is incredible

Base metals offer futures alternative

Emerging markets offer safe harbour

Companies at a loss about financing

Better info flow will keep costs low

Trains, planes and bond market deals

Correction

Emerging markets

Renovation of a pariah

$1 trillion says that EM is back

Star manager test case as regulator turns eye offshore

Peacekeeping dividends

Deal Insider

WPP's debt gambit captures Cordiant

Islamic finance moves on with debut Eurobond

Against the tide

The market cannot live by financials alone

People

Simon Cooke