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Company: Exane
Position: Facilitation Trader - UK
City: London

EVENTS
Valuation of Early-Stage Technologies
This seminar will unveil the application of the Competitive Advantage Valuation (CAV) method of valuing embryonic technologies and patents.
Date: Jul 31
City: Tel Aviv
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Regulatory Arbitrage Presentation
Course Title: Regulatory Arbitrage Opportunities after Basel II and the 8th Company Law Directive of the European Union (Statutory Audit Directive, the European Sarbanes-Oxley)
Price: $1940
City: Zurich
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Trader Monthly 100
April/May 2007

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The Trader Monthly 100
You needed to make £25 million last year to make our fourth annual list. Capitalism's ultimate honour roll.

Shanghai Nights
After a decade of spectacular boom, China's financial capital has been transformed into an empire of indulgence and excess. On the Town in China's Trading Capital.

Master of Time
When Marcus Margulies sells a watch, it matters. We talk timepieces with London's premier trendsetter.
OPEN

Driving in Style
Wheels of Fire
| Page 22
THE CONCEPT OF asset-sharing car clubs is well and good: A yearly fee gives you an allocation of points you can use against a fleet ... > read more

Royal Yacht
Open Waters
| Page 26
AS THERE IS little half so much worth doing as messing about in boats, yacht fractionals seem a good idea: Why spend 100 percent of ... > read more

Master of Time
Wrist Worthy
By Tolga Kadioglu
WHEN MARCUS Margulies sells a watch, it matters. The owner of Time Products Luxury Watch Division, including the prestigious Marcus store at 170 New Bond ... > read more

The Cruelest Twist
Is yoga killing you?

NEED EVIDENCE THAT yoga — for eons practiced mainly by boneless circus freaks and elongated Abbie Hoffman types — has gone thoroughly mainstream? Look no ... > read more

Insider Info
Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish

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Grieving by Giving
How Marathon Asset Management’s Andrew Rabinowitz channeled his sorrow into saving the lives of newborns
By Eric Capper | Page 24
ON JULY 13, 2006, Andrew Rabinowitz’s wife, Phyllis, gave birth to a girl named Rebecca, the couple’s second child. But their joy lapsed into grief ... > read more

Cape Crusaders
Trading Spaces
By Andrew Barber | Page 20
NO COUNTRY IN AFRICA — even the continent’s economic powerhouse, South Africa — is typically included on any list of global trading hotspots. Determined to ... > read more

English Lessons
Recapture the scintillating sounds
| Page 22
WITH CITY TRADERS snapping up all the posh real estate and British markets overtaking those of New York in the public-listing standings, London’s a pretty ... > read more

High/Low

Pipeline Surfing
Check your fear at the door and get ready to ride the wild waves
By Jonathan Hoenig
Check your fear at the door and get ready to ride the wild waves of natural-gas volatility. They don’t call it “the widowmaker” for nothing ... > read more

Buyer’s Remiss
When Time Warner announced its historic deal to merge with AOL, the entire world took notice. I took a bath
| Page 32
AS THE OUTLANDISH stock-market surge of late 1999 continued into early 2000, I had my sights set on California. My mission: to become a successful ... > read more

Iron Man
He’s the most durable man in commodities, a walking testament to the sheer joy of trading. Trader Monthly
By Lizbeth Scordo
FIFTY YEARS IS a long time to be in any business. It’s an extraordinary amount of time to spend trading, a vocation in which even ... > read more

Fightin' Fuld
Whether trading blows with an obnoxious hockey fan or locking horns
| Page 42
ABOUT EIGHT YEARS ago, around the time Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld was fighting off yet another batch of rumours that his firm was on ... > read more

Stay Hungry
A winning streak can affect your judgment — and, paradoxically, cause you to miss out on even bigger opportunities
By Johnny Chan | Page 46
I SEE A LOT of players quit a game way too soon. I’m not just talking about leaving the table. More often than not, “quitting” ... > read more

Just Eat It
Anyone can make money. But how effective are you at losing it?
By Doug Hirschhorn | Page 48
Anyone can make money. But how effective are you at losing it? Many traders fail to grasp this part of the game. It’s time to rediscover the lost art of taking losses By Doug Hirschhorn > read more

Fat-Cat Tilt
The investment field is becoming so overly skewed toward the biggest players
By Ken Grant | Page 50
The investment field is becoming so overly skewed toward the biggest players that it’s only a matter of time before there’s only one skin left in the game By Ken Grant > read more

DIRECTIONS

Welcome to the Boomtown
Home Equity
| Page 78
During the past decade, Manhattan’s luxury real-estate market has enjoyed history’s most prolonged — and profitable — bull market. Today, with dozens of spectacular high-end high-rises shooting skyward from the island, it shows little sign of slowing. Behold New York’s newest castles in the sky > read more

About the Trader Monthly 100

You needed to have made £25 million in 2006 just to gain admission to this list. You needed £500 million in annual comp to crack the Top 5. Behold capitalism’s ultimate honour roll — the Trader Monthly 100. > read more

The Trader Monthly 100: #1-10

It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business. > read more

The Trader Monthly 100
| Page 55
You needed to HAVE MADE £25 million in 2006 just to gain admission to this list. You needed £500 Million IN ANNUAL COMP to crack the Top 5. Behold capitalism’s ultimate honour roll — the Trader Monthly 100. By Rich Blake, Robert LaFranco and Leah McGrath Goodman illustrations by Adam Walko > read more

The Trader 100: #11-20

It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business. > read more

The Trader 100: #21-30

It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business. > read more

The Trader 100: #31-40

It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business. > read more

The Trader 100: # 41-50

It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business. > read more

The Trader 100: # 51-60

It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business. > read more

The Trader 100: # 61-70

It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business. > read more

The Trader 100: # 71-80

It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business. > read more

The Trader 100: # 81-90

It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business. > read more

The Trader 100: # 91-100

It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business. > read more

Armed and Dangerous
| Page 86
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Shanghai Nights
The Life

After a decade of spectacular boom, China’s financial capital has been transformed into an empire of indulgence and excess. Behold our user-friendly guide to the Far East’s new Wild West > read more

Porsche Versus Plane
Wheels

Just how fast is the 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo? We set it up in a 240-mile race against an equities trader and . . . a DC-9 > read more

Laptops of Luxury
| Page 106
Meet the year’s sleekest, most revolutionary notebooks — the supercars of the computer set > read more
Keywords: GadgetsUK

Clear Winners
Liquidity
| Page 110
These new super-premium vodkas may be, by definition, odorless and flavorless — but they still manage to taste exceptional > read more

Hot Times in the CIty
By Lauren Lawrence | Page 112
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