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Bank deleveraging has barely started

Bank deleveraging has barely started

Banks lending money to governments to help fund bank bailouts looks horribly circular

Abigail Hofman:

Abigail Hofman:

I wonder if ______ is an extremely optimistic person or in a cocoon of senior management denial

July 2006

Private client investment: Cheviot poaches 50 pros

Little-known London-based Cheviot Asset Management has poached 50 investment management professionals from UBS and other leading investment firms as it relaunches itself as an independent private client asset management group.




Before the relaunch, Cheviot was a UK stockbroker of some 20 years standing owned by accountancy firm Kingston Smith. It was acquired in May by Old Oak, a financial services group run by Martin Hughes, who separately runs hedge fund Toscafund.

Many of the 50 staff poached were formerly with Laing & Cruickshank Investment Management, which was bought by UBS in 2004 in a...


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The Fitch approach is good. They are now a serious player, and best for covered bonds

So says a German Pfandbrief specialist. Well, as Fitch is maintaining triple-A ratings, while Moody’s makes severe downgrades, he would say that wouldn’t he?

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