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Retrospective: Morgan Stanley leverages the downside
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This Morgan Stanley product was aimed at bearish investors seeking to profit from declines in the Russell 2000 Index. Principal was at risk if the index performed above a certain level
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Dow Jones Indexes and UBS have launched a commodities index that measures diversified exposure to longer-dated commodity futures contracts spread across the commodity price curve. The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity...
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Poor equity market performance is driving investors into alternative asset classes such as utilities, gold and dividends in the search for stable returns
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Dow Jones Indexes launches commodity index with fuller curve exposure
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Dow Jones Indexes and UBS Securities have launched an enhanced version of the DJ-UBS Commodity Index to give investors fuller exposure to the forward curve through a single index
FVC custom indexes
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A PDF of this article is available here In the US, all three FVC indexes increased over both the month and the year to October 31. Although the income index has registered the best peformance, the accelerated index, which is the most volatile of the...
Exploring the alternatives to market cap weighting
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Indexes are increasingly investible, but while market cap weighting remains the dominant methodology for exchange-traded funds and structured products, debates about its inefficient risk-return trade-off are as prominent as ever. But do alternative weighted...
Tobam’s joint venture with FTSE set to open doors for ETF distribution...
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Tobam and FTSE have launched an index series based on diversification, offering a more risk-based view than the more traditional market cap weighting
Structured Products Advances in Indexing Guide & Directory 2011/2012
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The index business used to be very straightforward and dominated by a relatively small number of third-party providers. Those well-known index creators provided benchmark indices, and some taste of exotica, and sometimes delved into a little light calculation...
FVC custom indexes
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A PDF of this article with supporting data and performance charts is available here Europe's benchmark index the Euro Stoxx 50 fell dramatically in the three months to the end of September (with a 23.5% fall between end-July and end-September alone)....
Index roundup
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Barclays Capital has launched the Offshore Renminbi Bond Index, which aims to track the growing market of Renminbi-denominated bonds issued outside the People’s Republic of China. The index is offered as a standalone index that complements other Asia-Pacific...
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