The Index provides a single, daily measure of fragility and can help portfolio managers to determine when they should consider hedging their portfolios or change investment strategies...

VIRGILE is a lawyers' office registered at the Paris Bar, which was created by highly specialized attorneys stemming from international law firms. The foundation of VIRGILE especially aimed at offering legal services to non-French companies seeking for a combination of broad-based proficiency and focused specialization. The firm advises and represents its foreign-based clients in almost any legal issue they may be faced with : business law, corporate law and capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, tax law, French and EU competition law, distribution, employment law, public and international law.

The Hong Kong-based prop traders of the famous "Principal Strategies" desk at Goldman Sachs are also preparing to leave the bank.

Stéphane Voisin, Head of SRI Research at CA Cheuvreux, discusses the importance of social responsibility issues in the current economy.

In his latest book, Philippe Herlin, in light of the crisis and following the work of Mandelbrot and Taleb, presents the agenda the question of the reliability of the classical models used in finance.