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June 2008 5 Min Read

Enhancing Balance Sheet Efficiency

Enhancing Balance Sheet Efficiency by Richard Bartlett, Head of Corporate Debt Capital Markets, RBS The growth of private equity (PE) fundraising, which increased every year between 2002 and 2007, and exceeded $100 bn in 2007, has been phenomenal. PE investors led the vast...

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June 2008 5 Min Read

Successful Eurobond Issuance in 2008

Successful Eurobond Issuance in 2008 By Mark Dodd, Managing Director, Co Head of Global Corporate Syndicateand Tim Muehlenbach, Director, Debt Markets Group, European Corporate Origination, RBS One of the most significant outcomes of the credit crisis is, without...

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June 2008 13 Min Read

Optimising Working Capital at Numico

Optimising Working Capital at Numico by Albert Hollema, VP Treasury, and Ramon Tolk, Treasury Accountant, Numico Numico is a high growth, high margin, specialist baby food and clinical nutrition company, acquired by Danone in October 2007. Acknowledged as the European and...

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June 2008 8 Min Read

Money Market Funds: A liquid asset in volatile markets

Money Market Funds: A liquid asset in volatile markets Normally, the summer is a time for relaxation and enjoyment… but not the summer of 2007!! The fallout and repercussions of the turmoil in financial markets continue, and as yet, there is no light at the end of the...

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June 2008 9 Min Read

The Time is Now for Money Market Funds

The Time is Now for Money Market Funds Helen Sanders, Editor Regular readers of TMI’s annual Money Market Funds Guides will have witnessed the almost meteoric rise in the popularity and acceptance of money market funds (MMFs), growing from US domestic instruments to...

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June 2008 4 Min Read

Cash as a Strategic Asset

Cash as a Strategic Asset As investors take a more active approach to their short-term portfolios, they must balance the potential for enhanced returns against risk and liquidity considerations. Cash, a previously under-utilised and overlooked component of most investment...

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June 2008 5 Min Read

Boosting Returns with UK Prime Mortgage-Backed-Securities

Boosting Returns with UK Prime Mortgage-Backed-Securities An Interview with Matthew Tatnell, Manager, Aaa-rated Sterling Liquidity Fund and Sterling Liquidity Enhanced Fund, Morley The Institutional Money Market Fund Association (IMMFA) recently announced that money market...

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June 2008 8 Min Read

Multi-fund Portals: Meeting the needs of sophisticated investors in a complex world

Multi-fund Portals: Meeting the needs of sophisticated investors in a complex world Justin Meadows, Head of Business Development, MyTreasury Ltd The last 12 months have seen the European money market fund (MMF) industry mature rapidly as it faced its first real, or to be...

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June 2008 4 Min Read

Why Risk Volatile Returns When You Can Generate Stable Cash Returns

Why worry about market volatility when you can have cash positive returns? by Adrian Grey, Head of Fixed Income, Insight Investment In late 2006, it was probably fair to say that most people had little idea what a sub-prime mortgage was, and even less that any problems with...

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June 2008 4 Min Read

The Growth of Government MMFs

The Growth of Government MMFs by Connie Bugbee, Managing Editor, iMoneyNet Since early August 2007 when investors became aware of problems with subprime mortgages, primarily in the United States, money-market funds both in the US and abroad have been the recipients of huge...

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May 2008 11 Min Read

Rapid Returns in Receivables

Rapid Returns in Receivables by Helen Sanders, Editor Those who remember the late 1980s and who also grew up in the United States (I can feel my audience diminishing as I write!) may remember Ken Hakuta, better known as ‘Dr Fad’, TV personality and inventor...

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May 2008 5 Min Read

Implementing a Best Practice Treasury at Richemont

Implementing a Best Practice Treasury at Richemont by Vassilina Lapteva Walford, Group Treasury Projects Manager, Richemont The mission of Group Treasury is to find the right balance between the business strategy of the Group as a whole and the treasury strategy. Richemont...

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