IMF responds to Nielsen accusations

It’s Vietnam, but not as we’ve known it. The country’s financial markets have promised much in the past and delivered little but disappointment. Reforms are now for real and initially most apparent in the banks. Significant opportunities are there for the taking. Chris Leahy reports.

Q&A with Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, the biggest foreign investor in Russia.

Vietnam’s first flirtation with western fund management ended in an embarrassing exit for all but the die-hard few. Now that money is queuing to get in again, those who stuck it out through the downturn advise caution. Chris Leahy reports.

After having been unseated as CEO of Deutsche Börse by hedge funds, Werner Seifert has concluded that the hectic race for alpha will destroy capitalism. Euromoney looks at Seifert’s passionate espousal of good old corporate values.

Structured credit investors rushing to list residual income funds need the capacity to accurately price this esoteric risk.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon wants a clear, new structure for the bank, without personal fiefdoms and superstars. But what does this mean for one of its most important franchises – the structured credit business that JPMorgan once dominated – now in the hands of a new generation of managers? Alex Chambers reports.

Is the single-minded pursuit of alpha as smart a strategy as conventional wisdom would suggest?

US bank is surprising frontrunner in league tables.