Euromoney's coverage of past short selling regulations and questionable events is worth a look today
Testing times in the search for alpha
January 2008
by Alex Chambers and Jethro Wookey
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Goldman Sachs has appointed Jim Esposito as global head of investment-grade financing, a new role that incorporates both the syndicate and origination businesses. Esposito was previously the head of US debt syndicate.
At the same time, Goldman has made the former head of its European investment-grade business, James Garvey, chairman of investment-grade financing. Garvey will focus on a purely client-facing role looking at the SSA and FIG area. He will no longer have responsibility for the day-to-day syndicate and origination businesses.
If the shoe was on the other foot, if these were sovereign wealth investors in France, Germany, the UK or the US earning fabulous returns, reducing national deficits, funding social security costs and investing into the rest of the world, would they think it was an issue? I suspect not
Simon Israel, executive director of Temasek, takes critics of the sovereign wealth funds head on