Investment Banking

The American bank’s suggests the following strategies as its flagship trading recommendations in 2012: Short on the German bund with an expected 2.8% 10 year return and long EUR / CHF with 1.35 as target…

After having suffered the effects of the financial crisis of 2008, and contrary to Cassandre who announced the inexorable decline of the LBO industry, it must be said that LBOs have seen a revival of interest since 2010. Is it a real recovery or just a temporary upturn?

Deutsche Bank has entered into a longevity swap with the Trustees of the Rolls-Royce Pension Fund. Under the agreement, Deutsche Bank will hedge the longevity exposures of the scheme

Several opinion leaders have started a public debate regarding the possibility to breakup the Euro and return to the former local currencies. In light of this debate, we look at the possible implications of this break-up scenario for companies active on the Euro capital markets.

Back in the 1950s equities were seen as yield products, being as utility type assets. It was only from the 1960s that stocks were seen as growth assets. 2011 has been a watershed because yields have exceeded bond yields