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Merrill Lynch: Four legs good, two legs bad

The professionals who left Wall Street firm Merrill Lynch last year compare it with George Orwell's Animal Farm. It's a pretty successful farm, and more human than most. But have the guys at the top pushed their teamwork ethos and those catchy slogans a little too far? Michelle Celarier reports

January 01, 1996

Poll of polls 1995: On top of the world

Which were the world's most successful investment banks last year? Euromoney's unique poll of polls has the answers. The winners: Merrill and SBC Warburg.And a wooden spoon for Goldman Sachs, which slips from first to fourth. By Charles Piggott.

January 01, 1996

Market Monitor

Maastrickery, NYSE raps Nomura, Equity placements, EIB's yen handout, Switzerland's test of strength

January 01, 1996

Equity new issues: Selling the family silver

Family businesses have long been the engine of European growth - if not of European stock markets. But the deaths of the founders and the need for capital are encouraging an increasing number of family businesses to list. Steven Irvine and other Euromoney writers analyze the trend and talk to six family companies being eyed by the bankers.

January 01, 1996

Portfolio theory: The human factor

Computers can do a lot to process today's explosion of information in financial markets - but they're only a tool. The ultimate processor and user of the information is man. Man is the subject and the object of financial analysis. Markets are a theatre of human behaviour. More and more quantitative analysts are redirecting their study of markets to the study of man. David Shirreff reports.

January 01, 1996

Slipping through the net

Netting makes bankers' eyes glaze over. But close-out netting can make them money. By Christopher Stoakes.

January 01, 1996

Emerging Markets

A sleight of hand, USExim cans the Kazakhs, Shrinking the discount, The battle for Asia, The communist spectre, Jezek fathers more reform

January 01, 1996

Pfandbriefe market: Can a jumbo give birth to a baby?

Optimists believe the new market in jumbo Pfandbriefe could become sophisticated, liquid and efficient enough to be regarded as a kind of baby Bund. Pessimists think overcoming image problems in the eyes of international investors will prove too difficult. Philip Moore reports.

January 01, 1996

Opinion

Front end

Banking's real climbers, CSFB's football field, Rich man, poor man, Australian elephant, The Euro-Euro

January 01, 1996

Japan: A game of catch-up

After a disastrous few years, Japanese securities houses have begun to rediscover how to make money in international business. They are cutting costs, building up proprietary trading operations and taking advantage of the demand from Japanese retail investors for foreign bonds. But can they ever catch up with their US and European rivals? Garry Evans reports.

January 01, 1996

BANKING

Why Barings was doomed

It wasn't just the Singapore futures operation that was badly managed. The lack of controls that allowed Nick Leeson to lose $1.4 billion was symptomatic of the lousy way Barings was run throughout Asia. The culture clash between the traders of Baring Securities and the merchant bankers of Baring Brothers meant that most executives cared more about protecting their own departments than about making the group work.

March 31, 1995

CAPITAL MARKETS

Searching for greenshoots

Heavily indebted and with puny domestic savings, Africa ought to offer attractions for interested foreign equity investors. Inflows have increased but local equity markets are thin and illiquid, privatizations halting and company research scanty. Funds with an Africa label feel obliged to buy something Africa-related. Have they always chosen wisely?

Ben Edwards, May 01, 1994

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