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Lehman launches MarQCus...

If its spate of hires throughout the year has not got its rivals thinking, the latest appointment at HVB, part of the UniCredit markets and bank operation, will do so. The bank, which is one of Europe’s largest companies by market capitalisation, has hired the well-liked and highly respected Ben Welsh as its co-head of global FICC; the other co-head is long-term HVB staffer Kurt Szesny.

Apparently it has taken six years to develop – and perhaps five minutes to come up with the name – so it’s no surprise that Jim McCormick, global head of foreign exchange research at Lehman Brothers, is pleased with the bank’s latest offering. Called MarQCus, which I guess is less of a mouthful than Macro Quantitative Currency Strategies platform, the service lets investors directly access Lehman’s quantitative strategies models. MarQCus is available via LehmanLive, Bloomberg and Reuters. Clients can select a portfolio using all six of Lehman’s systematic strategies in an equal weighting or they can create customized portfolios.

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