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  • Casey: 2012 and the cult of inverse equity

    26 January 2012

    What does it say of equities that inverse ETFs have become good long-term bets? Flawed construction aside, Theo Casey notes short EURO STOXX funds gained steadily in 2011. Here he shares a short selling candidate for the year ahead.

  • Grob: Poachers turned gamekeepers

    05 January 2012

    Fidessa's Steve Grob responds to CME chairman emeritus Leo Melamed's defence of HFT.

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  • CRD 4: Out of the frying pan and into the fire for pension funds

    23 December 2011

    Pension funds were about to celebrate their exemption from the costly clearing of OTC derivatives trades, when the banks pointed out the increasing costs of non-cleared trades that were heading their way finds Dan Barnes.

  • Review of the year: exchange mergers

    23 December 2011

    In the depths of the coldest European winter for 300 years, the announcement in February of the proposed merger between Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext sparked a storm of debate and set the scene for a deal jamboree across global exchanges. However the merger mania was soon met with the cold wind of reality as deals collapsed in the wake of protectionism and competition concerns.

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