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Corporates disenchanted with outsourcing, according to study

Many large organisations that outsourced information technology and other services are bringing some operations back in-house, according to a new study by Deloitte. The organisations who participated currently spend $50 billion on outsourcing and they have found the outsourcing process is much more complex than initially anticipated. Dissatisfaction with cost savings and reduced flexibility were found to be the primary reasons behind participants' responses.

April 25, 2005

CAPITAL MARKETS

CDO roundtable: Innovations in structured credit

The market for CDOs continues to boom. But which of these products suit which types of investor? And which developments are genuine innovations?

April 25, 2005

Streetwise: Playing the long game

How do fund managers aim for long-term performance when they are assessed over the short term? Henry Blodget offers an answer.

Henry Blodget, April 25, 2005

BANKING

M&A's new dealmakers set to take the stand

As US takeover activity booms again, corporate executives and their advisers are spending as much time weighing the legal implications of their decisions as the strategic benefits of bids. Welcome to M&A post Enron and Sarbanes-Oxley. Ted Kim reports.

Ted Kim, April 25, 2005

CAPITAL MARKETS

The new barbarians?

A flurry of big private-equity bids by hedge funds has sparked a turf war between two of the hottest growth sectors in recent years. Although some private-equity players reckon the threat to their business has been overstated and that hedge funds are ill equipped to handle private-equity deals, others are taking drastic steps to see off the competition. Joanna Hickey reports.

Joanna Hickey, April 25, 2005

Hedge funds size up to Japanese demand

Japan's institutions are increasingly investing in hedge funds. But getting a fund off the ground in Japan is a tough task – institutions prefer large funds, but with few individual Japanese willing to invest it's hard to boost size. Helen Avery reports.

Helen Avery, April 25, 2005

Who works at a new boutique?

return to San Francisco retells the growth story

April 25, 2005

The fall and rise of the Bay Area

return to San Francisco retells the growth story

April 25, 2005

BANKING

San Francisco retells the growth story

US smaller-cap growth companies lost much of their investment banking support after the tech boom collapsed in 2000. But three firms with a solid research base and San Francisco roots are working hard to fill the gap. Antony Currie reports.

Antony Currie, April 25, 2005

Fernández struggles to rebuild

Leonel Fernández, the Dominican Republic's new president, is a man with a thankless task. After overhauling the Caribbean nation's economy during his first presidency in the late 1990s and laying the groundwork for rapid growth from 2000 onwards, he watched as his work was undone by his successor, Hipolito Mejía, who led the country into economic collapse and default in 2003.

April 25, 2005

The rise of the unpronounceables

Analysts were scrambling for their atlases last month after Khelb Altaya (Altai Bread), floated on the RTS. The small flotation, even by Russian standards, of the federation's biggest grain processor is the latest of a wave of "no name" corporates to pop up on investment bankers' radar from the flourishing ranks of second-tier companies.

Ben Aris, April 25, 2005

Local currencies keep riding high

Latin Americans learned long ago that they should not put too much trust in their currencies. Since the 1970s, hyperinflation, capital flight and economic collapse have been commonplace and many businesses have realized that holding their assets in US dollars was the only sure way to protect them. Currencies have been more stable in recent years, but even so between 2000 and 2003 they lost about half their value against the US dollar and Argentines still hold billions of dollars in savings abroad.

Leticia Lozano, April 25, 2005

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