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Written by Robert Koller

Tuesday, 11 August 2009 11:27

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A new central planning era

Bill Gates wants to fund anti hurricane machine with Cat-Bonds

Travel companies should start looking into swine-flu ART

Next sovereign debt crisis around the corner!?

CDS, CDOs and arsonists

How state guaranteed bonds can help to free up capital in insurance companies

OECD recommends Cat Bonds

Cat-Bonds and PPP: An interesting financing idea in times of recession

Porsche, the index and a fundamental flaw

The CDS nightmare that was no nightmare

Starving out the locusts

Butterflies that whip the financial markets

Too much sovereign debt

Passporting 4.0

The devil, the hedge fund and the bankers

New best practice guidelines for hedgies

More conspiracy

Lehman aftermath

Offshore deposit protection schemes

To end with, obituaries

Consultation on Risk management principles for UCITS

The Banking Sector is insolvent

Hedge funds copying each other?

Staffing and organizational problems

Alternative alternatives

Follow up: Spain

Hedge fund beta

Who is the bad boy now?

Is the time ripe to look for opportunities in Spain?

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