Stories The Greek crisis : the Danaides’ barrel ?
Back on the Greek saga or the largest bankruptcy in the 21st century without credit event trigger (to date). The succession of bailout plans shows that we do not simply resolve the insolvency of a country by emergency (...)
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Stories How Nick Leeson caused the collapse of Barings Bank
In 1995, the financial markets were shaken by a massive scandal. Barings, one of the most prestigious banks in the United Kingdom is bankrupt following losses caused by Nick Leeson, one of its traders, aged 28 (...)
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Stories Peter Cruddas, 2007 richest selfmade man in the City and U.K entrepreneur of the year
Launched with just £ 10 000 by Cruddas 18 years ago, CMC Markets has managed to develop its business on the derivatives market to private investors and is now a major global brokers on CFD ...
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Stories JP Morgan (1837-1913), founder of a leading institution
As one of the most influent American businessmen at the beginning of the 20th century, John Pierpont Morgan saved the US financial system more than once. He also initiated several important mutations of the US financial (...)
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Stories Axa Rosenberg: a $217 million bug.
The American quantitative management firm is struggling to get over a scandal that originated from an IT error and which lead 600 of its clients to lose money.
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Stories Key Quant: New revelation of systematic management
"Key Quant”. The saga of Robert Baguenault de Viéville and Raphael Gelrubin could be summarized in these two words, the name of the company they run. Specialized in systematic trend-following management strategies (trend following (...)
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Stories Bill Gross, The king of bonds
At sixty-seven years old, the founder of Pimco is one of the most acclaimed financiers. His secret lies somewhere between Vietnam, blackjack and yoga.
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Stories Frozen Libyan Money
The conflict between the rebels and the regime of Muammar Khadafi has lead authorities of different countries of the Western world to freeze Libyan assets and have hindered the development of hedge fund FM Capital (...)
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Stories Enron, the story of a resounding bankruptcy
The most innovative company in the United States during several consecutive years, Enron went bankrupt in 2001 prompting an evolution in financial and accounting regulation in the US.
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Stories George Soros : « The Man who caused the fall of the pound sterling »
Born in Budapest in 1930, George Soros became world famous for speculation of the pound sterling on a grand scale! He became a legend in finance and today is retired.
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Stories Jim Simons : Geometry Professor and CEO of Renaissance Technologies hedge fund
Recently named IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year 2006, Jim Simons, brilliant mathematician and founder of Renaissance Technologies, became one of the richest men in the world, in only a few years.
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Stories Capital Fund Management: Simply the best?
Discus Fund, one of CFM flagship funds, posted 23 percent year-to-date positive returns as of october end, the best performance amongst all the global systematic funds. This is the confirmation the know-how of the French manager which has shown exceptional trackrecords for (...)
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Stories The wonderWomen of the City
While the debate on gender inequalities within British companies has never been so frank, a few “ladies” have taken high-level positions. Who are these pioneers?
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Stories Bernard Madoff, swindler of the century
Former chairman of Nasdaq is accused of having set up a fraudulent operation which would have cost its clients, individual investors, pension funds and banks more than 50 billion dollars. The blow could have been fatal to the world of investment (...)
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Stories Warren Buffet : Investor of the century?
After having bought Berkshire Hataway in 1962, a struggling textile manufacturing company, 40 years later Warren Buffet became one of the richest men in the world.
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