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How much exposure should you have to unlisted funds?
Personal Finance
How much exposure should you have to unlisted funds?
How valuations are important for unlisted assets, and what you should look out for with unlisted funds.
Shani Jayamanne | 11 January 2024
Why bank bailouts may be making the financial system more fragile
Markets
Why bank bailouts may be making the financial system more fragile
Morningstar's James Gruber says the bailouts of SVB and Credit Suisse have received little pushback, yet they should as they make another financial...
James Gruber | 28 March 2023
Banking crisis not over as Deutsche Bank and Europe peers plunge
Markets
Banking crisis not over as Deutsche Bank and Europe peers plunge
Where are large, inscrutable exposures? Where are the profitability challenges? Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank will be popular answers due to their...
Lukas Strobl | 24 March 2023
UBS-Credit Suisse deal: This great banking nation now looks like a banana republic
Markets
UBS-Credit Suisse deal: This great banking nation now looks like a banana republic
Over years working in global capital markets, I transacted billions of dollars of bond issues with Credit Suisse, Swiss Bank Corp and UBS. I never...
Graham Hand | 23 March 2023
Why this is a must-watch Fed meeting
Markets
Why this is a must-watch Fed meeting
The Fed may raise rates again, but its signals on the banking crisis and future rate hikes will be key for the markets.
Jakir Hossain | 21 March 2023
Credit Suisse's Demise: A Timeline of Scandal and Failures
Markets
Credit Suisse's Demise: A Timeline of Scandal and Failures
Credit Suisse is the latest, and the largest, victim of a new confidence crisis in banking. Here is the timeline of scandals, failures and...
Johanna Englundh | 21 March 2023
The weird end of Credit Suisse: Do stocks outrank hybrids now?
Fixed Income
The weird end of Credit Suisse: Do stocks outrank hybrids now?
Holders of low-ranking Credit Suisse debt are getting wiped out, but its shareholders aren't. Does this change everything?
Lukas Strobl | 20 March 2023
Why the UBS takeover of Credit Suisse is bad for bondholders
Fixed Income
Why the UBS takeover of Credit Suisse is bad for bondholders
Some Credit Suisse bond investors’ stakes were wiped out as Swiss authorities facilitated the mega merger.
Antje Schiffler | 20 March 2023
UBS should benefit from Credit Suisse takeover
Stocks
UBS should benefit from Credit Suisse takeover
Credit Suisse shareholders will feel shortchanged, but salvaging at least something is the best outcome under current circumstances.\n 
Johann Scholtz, CFA | 20 March 2023
Another banking crisis, another call to Buffett
Markets
Another banking crisis, another call to Buffett
Any Berkshire Hathaway lifeline won’t come cheap to banks in need.
Greggory Warren, CFA | 19 March 2023