January 2007

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World economic forum special report

The world on the cusp

Savings glut - the end game and the last bubble?

Global imbalances: The bears zero in on Goldilocks

China: The pitfalls of playing catch-up

Europe: Will Europe burst asunder?

Pensions: How much for the baby boomers?

India: Asia’s new giant emerges

Geopolitics: The Hegemon stumbles

Global warming: Stern’s suspect spanking of the sceptics

Conclusion: The ultimate bubble?

Private Banking Survey

Private banking and wealth management awards 2007: The world's best private banks

Private banking

Wealth management: Why performance matters

Rothschild: Risk and reward

Lombard Odier: High performance from low risk

Dresdner: Bias and balance

North America: US battle for rich pickings grows fiercer

Europe: UK regions offer the key to growth

Asia: Is Japan still a tough nut to crack?

Credit markets

CDS investors step up the fight for their rights

Emerging Europe

Credit boom puts pressure on Balkan banks

Emerging Europe: Friends reunited - getting back together

Vienna bourse sows the seeds of good neighbourliness

Almaty: A new Canary Wharf rises from the Steppes

Kazakhstan: Investment banks mining a rich seam

Russia: Bonanza or bust for banking IPOs?

Russian investment banks scrabble for a strategy

Retail growth focuses Ukraine’s funding needs

Debates

FX debate (part one of two): Alpha quest drives FX market growth

Cash management debate: Doing more with less – the treasurer’s lot

Debt markets news & analysis

Leveraged finance: Barcap’s US team wins first leveraged mandate

Regulation: FSA reprieves fixed-income market on Mifid’s best execution

People moves: Jentzsch wields the axe

Debt market round-up: Lloyds TSB builds debt capital markets

Debt market round-up: Ford pledges assets

Debt market round-up: Moody’s hybrid threat

Structured finance news & analysis

Corporate securitization: BAA faces tight turnaround

Citigroup securitizes Lone Star’s German NPL book

US fixed income: Mizuho raids Calyon

SF market round-up: CDPC launches: And then there were three

SF market round-up: Exchange traded CDS to launch

Derivative markets news & analysis

Derivatives market: LDI drives US funds to long-dated swaps

Derivatives market: New drivers for US dollar inflation swap activity

Foreign exchange news

FX: Market turns the volume up

Kazakhstan ready to float its currency

FX market round-up: FX index use is increasing

Alternative investments news

Risk management: Hedge funds take stress test

What? Hedge funds like hedge fund indices?

Hedge fund strategy: Top-down or bottom-up? What should FOHFs be doing?

AI market round-up: Will they, won’t they? Probably the latter

AI market round-up: SEC to increase HF wealth requirement

AI market round-up: ECB proposes central HF register

AI market round-up: G8 to examine hedge fund risk

Equity markets news

Investment banking: Bulge bracket banks squeeze out agency brokers

Trading systems: Canada makes the crossing

France: Natixis raises the roof

Exchanges: EDX uses LSE’s popularity

Equity market round-up: The month in numbers

Equity market round-up: Equity indices beat hedge funds

Asia news

Asian private structured finance: Growth capital in a flavour other than vanilla

Private structured finance: In through the out door

Australia: Qantas private equity deal gets mixed reception

Hybrid securities: Not many deals yet, but Japan still confident

Asia market round-up: Singapore Reit pioneer heads overseas

Latin America news

Borrower view: Argentine province opens door to debt markets for sovereign

Colombia: Equity issuance moves into a boom period

Mexico: Cemex paves way for emerging markets hybrids

Hedge funds: Brazilian fund bonanza piques foreign interest

GDP warrants fly on Argentina’s recovery

Argentina: Banco Macro issues first hybrids under new rules

Latin America market round-up: Hugo Chávez watch

LA market round-up: Morales takes control

LA market round-up: Latin Americans more optimistic

EEMEA news

Bank Hollandi sale points to ABN restructuring

Russia: High-yield issuance set to rise

Croatia: INA flotation captures investors’ imagination

Debt capital markets: Barcap misses out on sterling debut deals

Russian investment banks scrabble for a strategy

Zenit issues first local-currency Russian CDO

EEMEA market round-up: IFC issues local currency bond

EEMEA market round-up: RZB hires Russia specialist

EEMEA market round-up: Iran dumps US dollar

Market leaders

Citigroup’s management window dressing

Private banks seek new alternatives

Why Ken Lewis should beware the gung-ho analysts

Insider trading rumours hit credit

Argentina blazes a trail

Feel like you’ve been scrooged? DK redundancies

Southeast Asian markets: A new focus for Asia?

Columns

Editorial: Corporates and the CDS market – Know your market

VAT fears will not stall German growth

Inside Investment: Hangovers from 2006

ECB Watch: The future might look rosy but rate rises loom

Front End

The wonderful world of financial PR

Another take

PR awards

Citigroup takes a haircut as Berman squeals for charity

Luxury living that’s way über the top

Off the Record