"Why did Cabiallavetta, the CEO of the Union Bank of Switzerland, agree to such a deal?" asked The Economist on January 31, 1998. The deal was a merger between UBS and Swiss Bank Corp., a smaller riva

Mike Foster 23 Jun 2003 Ramy Goldstein, dismissed as head of UBS’s global derivatives unit in 1998 because of heavy losses the year before, is back in business in charge of a hedge fund operation

Ramy Goldstein’s Early Misadventures New documents shed light on Goldstein’s early disputes with former investors and COMEX, the New York Commodity Exchange. By Dirk Schütz Translated by Sigrid S

A VIEW FROM INSIDE GED Former employees of Ramy Goldstein's global equity derivatives group have their own perspective on how risk management functioned inside their department. Here is a composite o