Last month, Arnaud Apffel joined Lehman Brothers as managing director and co-head of European equity corporate derivatives.
Disappointing American weekly jobs data had sent European equity markets to a close in the red on Thursday.
With the euro, and continuing integration of European equity markets, arguments for a pan-European regulator are likely to strengthen.
European equity funds and pure-play bond funds posted outflows this past week for the first time since late August.
European equity funds recorded outflows for the sixth week in a row.
"In the near term the fortunes of the European equity market and the credit market are interlinked, " ABN Amro analyst Ian Richards told Forbes.com.
"We find a reasonable number of German companies to be enthusiastic about, " said Stan Pearson, head of European equity at U.K. fund manager Standard Life.
For a user who has identified himself as an equities trader, it first offers European equity indexes, followed by news, economic news, debt news and political news.
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David Thwaites, European equity analyst at Paribas bank, believes the introduction of the euro notes and coins will not have a lasting impact on the European equity market.
Steel worked his way up at Goldman, starting in Chicago in 1976 and moving a decade later to London, where he founded the firm's European equity capital markets group.
Guy's Gartmore Capital Strategy Continental Europe fund charges total expenses of 1.59% annually, less than the 1.86% average for the 558 offshore European equity funds tracked by Fitzrovia International.
Investors are more focused on the short-term problems in Europe and a slowing economy in the US. European equity markets closed around 3% lower on average, with Germany down 10% in a week.
In anticipation of the euro, institutional investors are already starting to allocate their European equity portfolios by sector, rather than by country, and they will compare the quality of information provided by listed firms.
Cohen, who has been knighted by the queen, was fortunately early in the European private equity business.
He was perfectly suited to thrive in the more genteel, insiderish early years of European private equity.
In February GMB sent protesters to Frankfurt, Germany to picket the SuperReturn 2007 conference, a European private equity and venture capital summit.
Conversely, European private-equity firms are not seriously trying to crack the American market.
The bill could reach a trillion Euros with major European banks needing massive equity infusions to cover write-offs and remain solvent.
As the European recession unfolds, the equity markets are likely to wake up.
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Various studies have shown that, during the 1990s at least, European-based private-equity funds (mostly concentrating on buy-outs) delivered better returns than their American counterparts.
It would gain a vital equity stake in European upstream, mid-stream and down-stream plays, which by implication, includes trading activities given physical volumes ultimately impact virtual trades.
Clearly, the markets continue to perceive that Europe is a much riskier place to invest than the US. For example, based on equity market valuations European stocks sell at a substantial discount to US stocks.
Rather than borrow, Hines recruited equity investors such as European pension funds and the investment office of Kuwait.
It may yet produce some fireworks on bonuses, but not on any of the deeper issues: a forced wave of equity-raising by European and Japanese firms is highly unlikely.
In terms of the greatest threat to the various asset classes, equity investors believe that European banking crisis contagion will be the key risk to global equities, while rates investors view the biggest risk to US, German and UK sovereign debt markets to be uncertainty over the creditworthiness of these countries.
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Getting the U.S. working again is as important to the global equity markets as solving the European sovereign debt crisis.
Angels will require these communication tools and the European trend reflects this as crowdfunding for equity is legal in certain countries in Europe.
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About one-fifth to one-third of current European merger activity is generated by private-equity firms.
On Monday, the global equity markets reacted positively to the European Commission saying it is discussing plans to extend the European Financial Stability Facility.
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There is no equity inflow to speak of in European stocks.
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