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  • In November, boutique investment firm Exotix shattered the benign market consensus that the repayment of a bond issued by Nakheel, a debt-laden Dubai real estate developer, due in December 2009, would come through thanks to a bailout from Abu Dhabi.
  • At the heart of the investment challenge this year is getting to grips with the new reality: emerging market growth is outperforming – and in this respect is decoupling from – the developed world, and yet global asset price correlations are stronger than ever. Enter Bank of America-Merrill Lynch’s monthly Global Fund Manager Survey – the most eagerly awaited sell-side report in the global equity community.
  • At the heart of the investment challenge this year is getting to grips with the new reality: emerging market growth is outperforming – and in this respect is decoupling from – the developed world, and yet global asset price correlations are stronger than ever. Enter Bank of America-Merrill Lynch’s monthly Global Fund Manager Survey – the most eagerly awaited sell-side report in the global equity community.
  • After being forced to sell, in the grip of Russia’s September 2008 market meltdown, a 50% stake in RenCap for a modest $500 million, CEO Stephen Jennings’s appetite for risk is back with a vengeance. In July, the bank bought South African brokerage BJM Securities for $27.3 million to beef up its research, sales and trading capabilities in Africa’s largest economy.
  • After being forced to sell, in the grip of Russia’s September 2008 market meltdown, a 50% stake in RenCap for a modest $500 million, CEO Stephen Jennings’s appetite for risk is back with a vengeance. In July, the bank bought South African brokerage BJM Securities for $27.3 million to beef up its research, sales and trading capabilities in Africa’s largest economy.
  • EM Achievement awards are not designed to trumpet those banks with a full-service, pan-regional franchise. HSBC’s balance sheet strength, its 19th-century roots in Asia and its unparalleled global presence are now almost unremarkable facts of global finance. But HSBC is chosen for particular praise because of its aggressive plan to re-attach itself firmly to Asia’s growth engine.