Craig Douglas, Stanley Black & Decker’s treasurer, is renowned for his financial acumen. Whether it was a novel floating-rate convertible bond in 2007, the reopening of the bond market at the height ...

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In November 2009 European structured equity bankers were, for once, happy. For years the market had been shrinking, as had the number of bankers employed. Yet at that point eight months of solid ...

Our firm, FP Transitions, keeps a database on thousands of advisory firms, looking at data such as valuations. Our recent look into this data revealed a powerful truth: The most valuable firms are ...

A recent analysis of the FP Transitions database—backed by over 17,000 firm valuations—revealed a powerful truth: the most valuable financial advisory firms are those that invest in next-generation ...

Analysis: For some time now, financial punters have prescribed passive investment as the low-cost panacea for investors bloodied by years of underwhelming active management. S&P data indicates that ...

Barx (Barclays automated real-time execution) clients can now trade equity structured notes online as well as access secondary market prices, trade ideas and research, says Barclays Capital. “As the ...