Lehman brothers
08 May 2012
BlackRock’s Will Landers on the prospects for a rapidly growing market spurred by commodity demand.
08 May 2012
Senior executives at Lehman Brothers knew of the risks which led to the investment bank’s collapse, and chose to ignore warning signs as early as 2007, according to new documents.
11 April 2012
Fund managers are snapping up cheap portfolio insurance ahead of an expected market pull-back, after the VIX index hit pre-recession lows in March.
07 March 2012
Kames Capital bond manager Stephen Snowden said liquidity in the investment grade corporate bond market has fallen 80% since 2007, which could create difficulties for managers trying to manoeuvre out of larger positions in this space.
07 March 2012
Lehman Brothers has emerged from bankruptcy and is now a liquidating company that will begin the process of paying back its creditors and investors before finally being wound up.
09 January 2012
Managers voice optimism single currency will survive the sovereign debt crisis.
09 December 2011
Lessons learned from 2008 should go some way towards protecting investors from another hedge fund crisis in the current market turmoil.
22 November 2011
The FSA has banned a hedge fund manager and fined him £14,000 for failing to spot attempts by an employee to hide huge losses caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
16 November 2011
The eurozone debt crisis has forced the managers of the Waverton Asia Pacific fund to abandon their growth strategy in favour of defensive stocks after a dire period for performance.
08 October 2011
The problems with the European debt market are a cause for concern for UK income funds that still have exposure to the banking sector.
26 September 2011
Invesco Perpetual’s Mark Barnett has warned the present financial crisis is worse than the turmoil seen in 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed.
15 September 2011
It has been an uncomfortable summer for investors as the credit crisis from 2008 continues to plague markets, this time in the guise of a sovereign debt crisis. But how have markets really coped?
15 September 2011
Three years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Laura Miller revisits the shocking events and asks if any lessons have been learned.
15 September 2011
On the third anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and subsequent credit crisis, Investment Week looks at the best and worst performing funds and sectors over the last three years.
15 September 2011
Home secretary Theresa May has written to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme about its decision to compensate some Lehman-backed NDFA structured products but not others.
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