Investment Management
Review - Volume 3 : Issue 4

What's in Volume 3 : Issue 4?

CRISIS DEEPENED BY ACCOUNTING?

A fierce debate is raging as to whether use of market values is worsening the credit crisis

UNIVERSAL REACH FOR REGULATORS

Regulators join forces to control the world.

THIEF DAMAGES OFFSHORE INDUSTRY

The negative impact might be irreversible.

JAPAN BACK TO OLD WAYS

Two developments, one positive, the other negative, hark back to the Japan before its calamitous passage through the ‘90s.

CHINESE VETO POWER OVER GLOBAL M & A

Already an economic powerhouse, it is fast acquiring financial superpower status.

DERIVATIVES DRIVE CHICAGO

Chicago’s new global prospects.

GLOBAL UCITS BONANZA

Mutual funds sink in the US and Europe, but UCITS III is a goldmine.

BLOSSOMING OF A NEW VEHICLE

A new innovative type of IPO flourishing in the US is catching on in Europe.

RESEARCH STILL EVOLVING

Honest opinion from mainstream analysts look like a pipedream. Companies are urged not to feed them too much. Except for a chosen few, it’s tough to be independent.

PROTECTING DAX FROM FOREIGNERS

Deutsche Börse acts to avoid an unwanted impact.

COUNTERPARTY NIGHTMARE?

Getting the market right is not enough. Dealing with the right people in the right way is crucial.

LIBOR CREDIBILITY SHAKEN

Suspicious behaviour highlighted.

ARE BANKS AT IT AGAIN?

New accusations of courting danger.

MONOLINES BECOMING SUPERFLUOUS?

Bond insurers threaten to bring down the system, but their roles might actually disappear.

GEEKS SHOULD BECOME BOSSES

The secret of credit crisis mastery.

MICROFINANCE TAKING ON THE US

Can tiny loans to the poor work in the US?

SHAREHOLDER FRIENDLINESS - A US CONUNDRUM

What friendliness really means.