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Stoxx has launched an additional currency hedged version of its European benchmark index to add upside and reduce the risk of currency fluctuations. Designed to act as a proper benchmark for actively managed...
Morgan Stanley’s hybrid tracks eurozone equities and inflation and offers a fixed coupon in some years of the investment regardless of underlying performance. In return, investors may have to give up...
Investment in commodity markets is at record highs on the back of indexes, exchange-traded products and structured products. With appetite set to remain strong this year, working out investor trends is...
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Dow Jones launches currency-hedged versions of Dow Jones-UBS Commodity...
Dow Jones has integrated a currency hedging mechanism into its benchmark commodities index to meet demand from non-US dollar investors
S&P launches additional risk control indexes using bonds to add upside
Standard & Poor's has launched a second series of its popular risk control indexes, this time using a bond component while targeting a specific level of volatility
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Credit Suisse is offering a six-year, knock-in structured product with a low, 30% barrier. The unfettered upside and a likely minimum 18% return are balanced by the risk to capital
Banks and index providers mixing and matching strategy and benchmark...
Traditional index providers that focused on the creation of benchmark indexes and banks that focused more on the creation of strategy indexes are now crossing over into each other’s territory. Magda Ali reports
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Meteor offers a four-way index play
Meteor is offering UK investors a play on four indexes, with the lowest weight applied to the least correlated. There are fixed returns after three, four and five years, as long as the growth product does not kick out
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