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ETFs: investors’ flexible friends
Exchange-traded funds have proliferated in Europe, offering institutional investors enormous investment choice and liquidity at a low cost. We find out how and why these products are attracting the...
RBS lands BAML structured products sales team
RBS hires four Bank of America Merrill Lynch sales staffers in Hong Kong, including Abhinav Gorawara...
US wrap: Banks offer differing risk levels linked to S&P 500
Index-based investments have returned to the benchmarks for the latest issuance but there are discrepancies...
- Nasdaq OMX and DWS Investments launch volatility control index
- Raiffeisen joins growing Romanian structured products market
- BNP Paribas enters US retail space via Bank of the West
- UBS names Bahurel head of equity derivatives sales in Asia
- S&P launches indexes to measure risk premiums between asset classes
- UK Wrap: The holy grail - income and capital protection
- Gilliat Financial Solutions taps European distribution networks
Latest issue highlights
Uncertainty over FDIC insurance is affecting structured products industry
The US government is currently deciding whether to permanently increase the deposit insurance cover to $250,000 per depositor. The...
UK investors swap FTSE 100 ETFs for emerging markets
Investors withdraw from ETFs based on the FTSE 100 in the first quarter of the year, preferring investments based on emerging markets...
Incapital snaps up Blue Sky Asset Management
US securities and investment banking firm Incapital has acquired UK plan manager Blue Sky Asset Management, which will be merged with...
Editor's choice
Editorial: Welcome to global distribution
The most extraordinary thing about the sale of Blue Sky Asset Management to Incapital is probably that the same number of structured products professionals...
Lee reappears at Deutsche Bank as head of GMIP and db-X, Asia
Chris Lee has taken over global market investment products and the db-x division in Asia for Deutsche Bank. Formerly head of the structured products...
Malaysian investors hunt for hybrids
Hybrid structures are increasingly popular in Malaysia as investors look to keep the cost of hedging down and moving away from capital protected products...
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Product reviews
Morgan Stanley Jump
Morgan Stanley has issued Jump Securities, a structured products based on the performance of a basket composed of the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets...
A complex payoff
The Royal Bank of Scotland has created a complicated retail structured product based on volatility for the Australian market and teamed up with National...
Awards
Structured Products Americas awards 2010
The interviews for the fifth annual Structured Products Americas awards will begin on Monday, March 8. Completed entries (see below for how to apply) must...
Europe awards 2009
This year’s awards have been all about risk management and the clever products or strategies that providers and distributors have adopted. While not...
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