All Features articles – Page 434
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Surviving the e-revolution
Cross-border markets are nothing new. What has changed, however, is the technological infrastructure that underpins the activities of market participants throughout the globe. Whilst there are still relatively large swathes of the international financial markets that rely on and enjoy a physical market, participants in almost every area of the ...
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Slowdown fears unnerve Europeans
It’s nervy times as markets get through the first quater of 2001. “People are unsure about earnings and are therefore holding on to stocks with proven profitability and defensive characteristics,” says Neill Brennan, head of quantitative research at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney in London. “Market nervousness has seen defensives bounce ...
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Fighting the Fed
The wisdom on Wall Street is “Don’t fight the Fed”.Late in January the CEO of Cisco Systems announced that revenue growth had slowed abruptly in the New Year and that the next two quarters could be a rough ride. Press coverage was extensive on the Monday– but Cisco’s share price ...
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GPR's neat fit into Kempen
Amsterdam-based merchant bank, Kempen & Co, which has just over e600m in property assets under management, has acquired Global Property Research (GPR), the property research and index specialist in Amsterdam. Kempen is determined to develop its new protégée. “Joining Kempen gives us room to grow,” says GPR analyst, Jeroen Beimer. ...
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A seismic shift in FX trading
Foreign exchange markets, like many others, are undergoing a profound change. We believe the impact of the internet and its associated technology is causing a seismic shift that will transform the way currencies are transacted. It will also change the relationship between clients and banks. Banks that can fully utilise ...
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Myners gets UK pensions industry talking
The name of Paul Myners has been on the lips of pensions professionals in the UK for some months now, and all the more so in the last few weeks since his review of institutional investment practice finally saw the light of day. When Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown ...
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Giant step into a new world
Last year, PGGM, the Netherlands’ second largest pension fund, took the revolutionary decision to invest in the commodities markets with a commitment of between 3% and 5% of its total portfolio value of about e50bn. This was no sudden move, but came after an extensive asset and liability management (ALM) ...
