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Investment banking: the political fallout

Story by: Philip Coggan, Investment Adviser

The global crisis of confidence in financial institutions raises key issues for govermment

• Time published: 00:01
• Date published: 22.09.2008
• Published in: Investments

Chinese whispers around the workplace

Information gap holds back stock ownership and performance-related pay for employees

• Date published: 22.09.2008

In-between sector - in-between returns

Funds' not too cautious or adventurous approach is reflected in performance

• Date published: 22.09.2008

Balancing act

Funds in the IMA's Balanced Managed sector are permitted to have up to 85 per cent in equities, making the sector name something of a misnomer.

• Date published: 22.09.2008

Pork chops may dry up, but there's always jam

The mood at the FT Fundlinks conference was both cautious and energised

• Date published: 22.09.2008

Last one out unscrew the light bulbs

In an investment bank full of enterprising workers who know a thing or two about selling everything, from bonds to structured product exotica, it came as no surprise to learn about latest whisperings emanating from “well-placed” sources and city drinking holes.

• Date published: 22.09.2008

Breaking up is hard to do

Parting ways with an employer is often bittersweet. But for some US financial advisers, it can be a downright nasty affair.

• Date published: 22.09.2008

Don't write off the easy trade

The apparent demise of the "easy trade" of “buy oil, sell financials” has had the obituary writers hard at work.

• Date published: 22.09.2008

Let them fail

Who will be next? That surely is the question on everyone’s lips as yet another esteemed institution is forced to surrender its independence.

• Date published: 22.09.2008

How the mighty have fallen

Shame, shame, shame. Just as news filters in of the vultures scooping up sections of Lehman Brothers at bargain basement prices from the administrators, a press release just in.

• Date published: 22.09.2008

Discretion the better part of valour

Imagine the scene: the stock markets are in meltdown, question marks are raised over the future of your firm, and yet stuck square and centre on your desk is an invite to a two-day FT conference dedicated to discussing the issues affecting your industry.

• Date published: 22.09.2008

Swinging through the wilds of Surrey

Back at the conference, IA’s intrepid reporter is about to realise the true meaning of intrepid.

• Date published: 22.09.2008

Sauvignon Blanc becomes the protest wine of choice

It’s curious how many good wines can remind you of something you wouldn’t normally dream of putting in your mouth, yet still taste delicious.

• Date published: 22.09.2008