Issue: May 2013
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COVER STORY
Structured Products Americas Awards 2013: JP Morgan takes top spot
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We reveal the winners of this year's awards celebrating excellence in the Americas
EDITOR'S LETTER
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You know when it's after the event, because all the talk is of buy low, sell high as the fear about whether or not the moment of investment truth has been...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
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The Libor rate scandal: exclude equity indexes from upcoming regulation, say providers
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The Libor-rigging scandal has sparked moves to tighten the rules behind the production of key industry benchmarks. But are regulators right to have...
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Latest issue - Features
House of the year, Latin America: BBVA Bancomer
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An autocallable warrant with an emerging markets index as the underlying may not sound that exciting, but it was the first of its kind in Mexico last year...
US distributor of the year: Incapital
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It is not often a company puts its own capital at risk to help an industry advance, but so strong was the belief that non-principal-protected structured...
Structured products house of the year, Americas: JP Morgan
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"The difference is, certain issuers are in it for a shorter-term focus, whereas JP Morgan is in it for the long-term," says Glenn Lotenberg, managing...
US structurer of the year: Credit Suisse
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Gold is an intriguing investment, but it was Credit Suisse that last year made it very simple, with the first covered call, exchange-traded product issued...
Technology innovation of the year: BNP Paribas
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The structured products value chain has several distinct parts. First, there is the research and ideas that identify the opportunities and inspire the...
House of the year, Canada: Desjardins
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What clients liked most about Desjardins this year were its products that offer a minimum return and potential for growth, and its ability to get new ones...
Index innovation of the year: Barclays
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With investors demanding a more thorough approach to investing and increasingly viewing investments as systematic sources of risk and return, Barclays...
Law firm of the year: Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Davis Polk & Wardwell's transactional work during 2012 - when it advised on 2,100 offerings, worth $32 billion, or an average of 40 per week - would have...
Japanese banks recycle risk into Europe
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Last summer, banks in the Japan structured products market were hit hard by moves in volatility – but some banks saw this as an opportunity to recycle...
Family offices taking charge of their own investment decisions
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Family wealth funds are dumping hedge fund positions and taking control of their own investment decisions. But as some move into direct lending – to...
How ETFs could prove useful to insurers
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As insurers look for new opportunities to boost the yield on their investment portfolios, exchange-traded funds could provide an efficient way to diversify...
People: Credit Suisse equity derivatives head to retire
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Min Park to retire from Credit Suisse; RBS loses head of equity derivatives and investor products; Barclays Wealth names interim CEO; Reyker Securities...
Smart beta strategies: too clever by half?
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The hunt for security over yield has seen surge of interest in so-called smart beta strategies. But while many smart beta indexes have outperformed...
Radical US tax proposals could snare structured products in mark-to-market net
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A radical tax proposal from Washington would raise rates for holders of structured products and move these instruments to a mark-to-market regime. Yakob...
Latest issue - More articles
Trade of the month: choosing products when volatility is high
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In this, the second of two articles about volatility, we examine the best product selection for when levels rise from their current low level. Autocalls...
Lookback: Iosco offers structured products toolkit
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Iosco published regulatory guidance; State Street confidence index falls; New research might make monkeys out of fund managers; US equities will be...
JP Morgan offers returns from growth underpinned by a barrier
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JP Morgan is appealing to those investors who do not think the market will move much in the coming year with a one-year bonus structure based on Caterpillar...
Market snapshot: making the most of volatility
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The volatility around Research in Motion stock was high enough to ensure that a reverse convertible issued in the US linked to the stock offered to...
IndexIQ carves out hedge fund replication niche
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Launched in 2006 with a mission to work exclusively in alternative investments, New York-based exchange-traded funds provider IndexIQ has carved out...
Catley Lakeman – ‘keeping the banks honest’
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Catley Lakeman acts as a go-between for banks and asset management companies looking to buy their structured products. Vita Millers talks to founding...
Actively seeking alpha with AdvisorShares
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AdvisorShares may be small, but it has an outsize footprint in the tiny yet growing active exchange-traded funds market. Yakob Peterseil talks to Noah...
HSBC note offers US investors double-digit returns from global equities
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HSBC is offering US investors a chunky return dependent on four underlyings. The correlation between the indexes and an emerging markets index fund...
Gilliat Financial Services presents FTSE 100 range accrual to UK investors
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UK investors have been offered a range accrual note by Gilliat Financial Services which pays a maximum of 1.5% per quarter and includes a barrier that...
Latest issue - News
ETF roundup: ETF and ETP assets hit record highs of $2trn
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ETF assets hit record highs; European investors demand more equity funds; ETF Securities launches currency-hedged gold ETFs
Index roundup: Stoxx launches 3D printing index
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Stoxx tracks 3D printing sector; FTSE and DPT partner for long-short commodity indexes; NYSE Liffe adds NSI options; Stoxx announces GC Pooling index;...
US banks wary of disclosing fair value for structured notes
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Correspondence shows several large Wall Street banks expressed reservations to the SEC about enhancing disclosure around their structured products
Reverse convertible investors face soaring tax bills under new approach to tax reporting
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Treating certain structured products as 'single income-bearing derivative contracts' could double some investors' tax bill, but the trend appears to...
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