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Securitisation touted as answer to '€4 trillion' funding gap
Securitisation industry group claims Europe faces big financing shortfall – and pushes securitisation as the answer
The rally in equity markets is shifting demand to principal-at-risk structured products, say US banks
Despite the lifting of a moratorium by the Securities and Exchange Commission last December, active ETFs have more hurdles to overcome before they're ready for the mainstream. Skittishness from the US...
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Market snapshot: US investors pile into leveraged return notes
Tim Mortimer analyses the latest monthly trends in the US and UK structured product markets
Meteor defensive autocall links to FTSE 100 and Euro Stoxx 50
Meteor Asset Management is offering the newly popular defensive autocallable to UK investors, linked to the FTSE 100 and the Euro Stoxx 50. The product's American barrier has been set at a relatively safe distance from the strike levels
No kickout for UBS autocallable note but returns beat direct investment...
UBS sold an optimised autocallable structured note to US investors in February 2012 that has so far not kicked out but has paid back better than a direct investment in the underlying, the stock of Haliburton
Korean regulator allows synthetic ETFs
Issuance of South Korean ETFs to remain largely from local managers despite changes to allow synthetic ETFs
Prospectus Directive consultation: ‘Comprehensibility’ concerns top...
Prospectuses for retail structured products should not be ‘legalistic’ or ‘overly mathematical’, says the UK Listings Authority, but can include payout formulae presented algebraically and examples to explain complex securities. It is perhaps...
Goldman Sachs angling for retail wallets in latest deal
Bank partners with online platform to bring its structured products directly into the hands of independent advisers
Euro Stoxx 50 leveraged return note from Goldman Sachs offers 67% maximum...
Goldman Sachs has offered a leveraged buffered two-year note linked to the Euro Stoxx 50 that offers potential return of 67.5% and full capital repayment
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