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Senior Executive with 29 plus years of broad based International banking experience in Corporate finance, Investment banking, private and commercial banking. He has worked in professionally challenging positions with major [...]

Ashraf brings with him over 33 years of International banking experience serving in senior positions in United Kingdom, United States of America, Middle East and Pakistan. Ashraf is a Fellow [...]

Ministry of Finance through the notification has announced the appointment of Syed Iqbal Ashraf, SEVP and Group Chief of National Bank of Pakistan, as Managing Director/Chief Executive Director of PAAR [...]

BANKING DAY NEWS BITES With two weeks to go until the New Year shutdown, banks are steering the last of this year's business prospects through the routines of capital market [...]

Investors can get better access to specialist exchange-traded funds and sophisticated autocall investments after a batch of launches from Source and Societe Generale. ETF provider Source has brought out three [...]

Ruffer has appointed David Benson as investment director. Mr Benson will join the institutional team with responsibility for absolute return and diversified growth mandates for UK pension schemes. He was [...]

GLG Partners has appointed Mark Diab to its Middle East and North Africa equities team replacing Mark Krombas who left earlier this year. Mr Krombas moved from Societe Generale Asset [...]

Deutsche Bank has become an executive member of the UK Structured Products Association. The association said Deutsche Bank shared its objectives and would be a welcome addition to an increasingly [...]

The City watchdog has slapped a GBP1.58m fine on Societe Generale for failures in transaction reporting. The penalty, which came just one day after the FSA fined Zurich Insurance GBP2.3m [...]

The FSA has fined the London branch of Societe Generale (SocGen) GBP1.57m for failures in transaction reporting. The regulator said the bank had failed to provide accurate transaction reports for [...]

The UK banking sector has showed signs of recovery after Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays reported strong profits. Lloyds Banking Group has hailed a return to profitability after reporting pre-tax [...]

Summer party season is in full swing, and so networking opportunities abound. Not so much, it seems at Societe Generale's annual summer bash at the Victoria & Albert Museum last [...]

FUND NEWS: Plus more evidence of value in European blue-chips Societe Generale (SG) has recently launched SG Football 2010 - a tracker fund investing in 16 shares listed on European [...]

OPM Fund Management has added a new one-year reverse convertible bond linked to Lloyds, RBS and Barclays to its Fixed Interest and Equity High Income funds. Tony Yousefian, chief investment [...]

The credit crisis - it would seem - has given amateur novelists the chance to flourish after yet another 'master of the universe' secures a publishing deal. The latest offering [...]

BANKING DAY NEWS BITES Amid the conjecture over which European banks are most exposed to the debt of Greece and the rest of the so-called PIGS, several banks in France [...]

Sales of structured products have soared this year. Societe Generale, for example, traded three times the amount of structured products in January and February compared with the same period last [...]

Hanoi (VNA) Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) and three foreign banks signed a credit contract worth 80 million USD and 8.8 billion JPY (95.2 million USD) in Hanoi on March 30 [...]

The Bureau of Customs will avail of the services of Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS), the world's largest inspection company, for a non- exclusive new trade facilitation program on bulk [...]

Curtain closes for draper at Lyxor Former iShares employee Dan Draper has left his role as global head of ETFs at Lyxor, the Societe Generale asset management unit. He is [...]

Canadian investment manager RBC Global Asset Management has snapped up former Societe Generale Asset Management emerging market head Philippe Langham as a portfolio manager. Mr Langham, who will be responsible [...]

The exchange-traded fund industry has benefited from the credit crunch, according to Dan Draper, global head of ETFs for Lyxor Asset Management. Assets under management at Lyxor, Societe Generale's wholly-owned [...]

BNP Paribas joined the ranks of other major global banks when it announced in September that it would be closing down operations in Panama. Chase Manhattan was the first to [...]

GLG Partners will be taking a more unconstrained approach on its Global Emerging Markets fund, introducing new charges after acquiring it as part of its purchase of Societe Generale Asset [...]

News this month that the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) is to list three exchange traded funds (ETFs) provided by Lyxor Asset Management takes the Societe Generale-owned ETF manager's offering on [...]

Joint venture deal with French partner TCW enables refinancing of wind assets British Gas owner Centrica is to build a GBP725m wind farm off the Lincolnshire coast, having secured a [...]

Societe Generale has launched a FTSE-listed product which it says will take advantage of bull and bear markets. The FTSE100 Twin Win is a listed product aimed at investors seeking [...]

The sale of Societe Generale Asset Management UK (SGAM UK) to GLG Partners, finalised in April after months of talks, neatly illustrated some of the pressures facing the wider industry [...]

French banking giant Societe Generale (SG) is looking for local partners to help develop a full range of financial services in China, one of its top executives said. 'We are [...]

THE BUREAU of Customs (BoC) is expected to fully settle its obligations to Swiss inspection firm SGS (Societe Generale de Surveillance) this year in relation to a contract that the [...]

FUND PROFILE: French-registered fund aims to tracker broader blue-chip index Unlike the other Japan ETFs profiled here, Lyxor ETF Japan (Topix) is a French-registered Sicav (Societe d'investissement A capital variable), [...]

Patience may be a virtue, but it can be very costly. One of the reasons why I am so cautious about the stock market is that investors must endure a [...]

The collapse of Lehman Brothers last September made both private investors and distributors of investment products suddenly more aware of counterparty risk. 'For the first time ever, private investors now [...]

ECONOMICS: The efficient market hypothesis is being written off too hastily The efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) is getting a bad press. James Montier of Societe Generale says it is 'dead' [...]

GLG Partners, the US-listed multi-strategy asset manager, has unveiled its UK equities proposition following its recent acquisition of Societe Generale Asset Management UK. GLG's UK equities team will be led [...]

INVESTMENT GUIDE: The number and variety of accelerated tracking products is growing all the time We've already looked in some depth at RBS's UK Accelerated Tracker in 'Managing your risks [...]

Nusseibeh nets fresh role at Hermes Hermes Fund Managers has hired Saker Nusseibeh to the newly created role of head of investments. Nusseibeh joins from Fortis Investments, where he was [...]

OBSR has suspended its A rating on the GLG Technology Equity fund after the departure of manager Hugh Grieves. OBSR said it would meet Anthony Burton, Phil Pearson and the [...]

LONG-TERM TREND: Bull market SHORT-TERM TREND: A tired and worn-out 5-month intermidate bull market likely to take a dive Momentum IndeX: -75 Relative Strength Index: 45 OBSERVATIONS: The signs do [...]

Richard Phillips and Andrew Thatcher will play role in helping to grow the company's retail offering for UK investors GLG Partners has appointed Societe Generale Asset Management UK's Richard Phillips [...]

GLG Partners has appointed the head of retail at recent acquisition Societe Generale Asset Management UK to co-lead its new UK retail division. Richard Phillips will spearhead the asset manager's [...]

GLG Partners has unveiled the new team on the five UK equity funds it acquired as part of Societe Generale Asset Management UK (SGAM UK) as it aims to boost [...]

The Societe Generale Turbo Trading Challenge 2009 is a great way to improve your market skills Societe Generale's Turbo Trading Challenge in association with Investors Chronicle has got off to [...]

Managers should follow their stock-picking instincts and focus on their best ideas stocks Why do investors buy mutual funds? First, to get a diversified portfolio and then to benefit from [...]

Group to market UK retail version of Alpha Select hedge fund after acquiring SGAM Hedge fund manager GLG Partners will launch its first onshore retail absolute return fund within the [...]

Societe Generale Asset Management UK last week rebranded as GLG after SGAM successfully completed the sale of its London-based business to US-based hedge fund GLG Partners. The transaction, completed on [...]

French banks jump on the debt transfer bandwagon French banks that had previously not reclassified debts and assets under the revised International Accounting Standards (IAS) rules have finally followed the [...]