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Source completes single-country Bric ETF range
ETF provider launches three ETFs linked to MSCI indexes for Brazil, China and India.
FVC's custom indexes compared with market benchmarks
Hong Kong will get a real-time VIX index in the first quarter next year, according to Hang Seng Indexes.
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Investec is offering an at-risk growth product in which upside comes from the performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and the downside is linked to the FTSE 100. Gearing is 1.1 times index growth
FVC Custom Indexes
There has been a distinct difference in the way that Japan and Europe’s benchmark indexes have performed over the last five years. FVC explains and expands on the reasons why.
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Volatility has become the darlinig of structured products and has become so favoured that it is now talked of as a pseudo asset class. Tim Mortimer explains
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Mergers and acquisitions activity picked up strongly in the third quarter of 2010, and as more companies seek attractive outlets for their cash the global M&A market is expected to rebound even further. Magda Ali reports on how product providers are targeting...
New index makes volatility investing more tradable
Investing in volatility as an asset class is taking off on a global basis, and Stoxx is the latest to tap the trend with a European index, created in partnership with Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). The Eurostoxx 50 Investable Volatility Index...
Standard & Poor's to introduce Vix volatility to Canadian investors
Index provider Standard and Poor’s (S&P) is to launch a volatility index in Canada following the success of the S&P 500 Vix futures indexes in the US, which form the basis of $3 billion of exchange-traded notes (ETNs). The S&P/TSX 60 Vix Index is...
Volatility: the next mainstream asset class?
Trading volatility used to be the domain of an elite group of sophisticated investors but this year pension funds and even retail investors started snapping up the latest generation of products. It could be a flash-in-the-pan fad but more likely volatility...
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