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Defence claims Adoboli condemned by 'sneaky' ex-colleague

Defence lawyer tells a London court that the ex-UBS trader has been condemned to take sole blame for a $2.3bn trading loss by a 'sneaky and sinister' former colleague and others

Record lows in funding levels prompt rethink on protecting assets

Corporate bonds, alternative long-dated assets, infrastructure investments and repos are all looking more attractive de-risking strategies as schemes seek to protect assets

A strong third quarter and apparent recovery in the industry’s fortunes this year cannot disguise the turbulence ahead

Recipes for risk-weighted assets smell a bit fishy

Regulators seem to be coming round to the view that allowing some recovering alcoholics to monitor their own abstinence isn’t such a good idea after all

Schemes search for ways to make infrastructure pay

Project finance debt is riskier than index-linked gilts, but it may still help pension schemes de-risk

Businesses negotiate the auto-enrolment maze

Financial News talks to those on the frontline, employers and their advisers, and asks them two questions about their auto-enrolment experience so far

Competition in the pensions race begins to hot up

Nest was formed to provide a service to those perceived as the unpensionable. Since then, its ambitions have angered rivals

Hybrid pension plans have gained little traction among businesses but could become popular if defined-contribution schemes fail to deliver

Schemes invest directly in small hedge funds

Large pension schemes are investing directly with hedge fund managers that would once have been considered too small and risky to deal with

Hedge funds prepare for Goldilocks solution

Fundamental change is about to hit the hedge fund industry, exposing, in particular, the limits of size

Rosenberg applies the brakes on risk control

He arrived in the UK the year the world’s markets collapsed. FN finds out how Cardano’s UK chief executive has been applying probability theory

Fast-forward: fresh case for speedier settlement

The twin benefits of cost and risk reduction are becoming clearer, but not all parties to a trade are sufficiently prepared

Schemes cast doubt on MyCSP’s solution to 99 problems

The government’s first provider of mutual administration services for civil service pensions could save local council schemes a collective £60m a year, but some of them have questioned whether it can reduce costs to that extent

Wall Street survives one storm but now faces another

Investment banks must get to grips with three tough issues but can expect little sympathy from the Oval Office

Five years on from record acquisition activity in the metals and mining industry, corporate executives face a landscape pockmarked with sinkholes

Samurai bonds remain a magnet for western issuers

Five years ago, banks and corporations fled to Japanese bonds when western markets froze. Despite the barriers to entry, they have learnt to love them

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