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April 2009

Main

Top stories

Sub-prime, China style

Insurance

Insurance survey 2009: Insurers take cover to avoid capital crunch

Insurance: AIU comes out fighting

Insurance: Axa stays its course

Insurance - Zurich: Diversification works

Capital markets

Boutiques: Independents’ day

Infrastructure

Infrastructure boom hits capital desert

Chinese banking

China’s looming NPL crisis

Chinese banking: The search for fees

Life assurance

China Life toughs out volatile markets

Asia Pacific

PNG LNG: What could Papua New Guinea's pipeline project bring?

Philippines: Arroyo says bailouts are not the answer

Thailand’s lessons for the west

Corporate finance

Lazard sticks with its own advice

Investment banking

Banks raise earnings expectations

Cash management

Cash managers adapt to tougher times

Custody

Custody converges with prime brokerage

Real estate

CMBS: We can’t work it out

Emerging markets

Emerging markets: Fund stars ride out the storm

Capital markets news

ECB reveals multi-billion euro repo exposure

Liability management: Issuers bid for own sub bonds

CLO downgrades: CLO market teeters on the brink

Capital markets round up: King’s careless talk costs DMO gilt auction

Capital markets round up: Bond boom in Q1

Foreign exchange news

Central banks: Switzerland ups the ante

SDR vs the Dollar: China and Russia want SDRs

Quantitative easing: Dollar eases off

FX market round up: New boss for HSBC

FX market round up: UBS loses senior salesperson

FX market round up: Allington seeks greener pastures

FX market round up: EBS floored but gets up fighting

Alternative investments news

Hedge funds: Whistle-blowing or regulation?

Private equity: PE funds turn to MENA

Behavioural finance: Alpha emotion

AI market round up: UK’s universities turn alternative

AI market round up: MS predicts big redemptions

AI market round up: Newer funds lose less than older

AI market round up: Changes in top prime brokers

Hedge funds news

Hedge funds: Funds of funds will survive Madoff

Hedge funds: Investors seek bigger allocations despite fall

Asia news

China’s corporate bond market: China fills corporate pipeline

Convertible issuance: Nomura makes or breaks with bond deal

Zhu Min, Bank of China: What China’s banks have learned from the crisis

Asian market round up: Korea reopens Asian markets

Asian market round up: RMBS first in Philippines

Latin America news

Mexico set to relaunch Farac II

High-yield debt: Digicel reopens high-yield market

Mexico: Citi hangs on to Banamex

Chávez Watch: Chávez can’t pay

Latin American market round up: Cemex plans $14.5 billion refinancing

Latin American market round up: Electrobras plans $13.2 billion investment

EEMEA news

Turkey plays to its strengths

Saudi Arabia: Public Investment Fund to float NCB

Mansour Al Maiman: Saudi’s PIF to flex its financial muscle

Banking: Bahrain leads consolidation

Armenia: Yerevan floats hydroelectric IPO

EEMEA market round up: SABB appoints new chief executive

EEMEA market round up: Parex agrees loan restructuring

EEMEA market round up: UniCredit makes €4 billion profit

Market leaders

Boutiques: Talent will out

China needs a single regulator

The battle for Swiss banking

FASB and mark to market: A lack of joined-up thinking

Latin American DPRs: MT promises

Credit rating agencies' code of conduct: Rating for Godot

Saudi Arabia: Out of the gloom

Editorial

US rescue package: Geithner’s confidence trick might just work

Columns

Abigail Hofman

Inside investment: Lessons from Madoff

Against the tide: Two crises in one

Front End

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HSBC staff unsure on rights issue

Capital markets: Courting disaster

Geithner's PPIP: Jobs for the boys

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