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Facebook makes its debut as a structured product underlying
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Investors in Europe have been buying structured products linked to Facebook since its stock market launch and now US investors will get a chance to do the same as the first product linked to the company...
Current crop of equity and bond indexes criticised by Asia-Pacific investors
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Concentration issues and a lack of diversification cited as problems in Edhec-Risk survey, though...
Emerging markets debt is the 'beta of choice' for ETF investors
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Exchange-traded funds that give investors exposure to emerging markets debt are increasingly...
- Emerging markets debt is the 'beta of choice' for ETF investors
- Synthetic ETF providers praised for counterparty risk efforts, but multiple model needs work
- Fears that IFAs will focus on the 'super-rich' post-RDR
- Finra provides more granular interpretation of suitability rule
- Vanguard brings its physically-backed ETFs to Europe
- Facebook makes its debut as a structured product underlying
- Current crop of equity and bond indexes criticised by Asia-Pacific investors
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Q&A: Jean-Paul Servais on the FSMA's moratorium
The chairman of the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority gives his views on structured products and offers insights...
Majority of fund selectors use ETFs as tactical investments
More than half of UK wealth managers and global fund selectors use ETFs to gain tactical exposure to certain markets, according...
European appetite for volatility ETFs blossoms
Inflows into volatility ETFs in Europe have spurred the launch of new products to satisfy investor interest in this asset class
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Editorial: Loophole is a dirty word
Loopholes are ways of escaping financial and legal responsibilities that are to be frowned upon, not clever and admirable ruses dreamed up by fleets of...
Europe's inflation investors sharpen their focus
A distorted inflation picture in Europe since the onset of the sovereign debt crisis last year is boosting interest in country-specific inflation exposure...
People: Royal Bank of Scotland lets Stuff go
David Stuff, director in UK sales leaves RBS in redundancy round; Nomura names new head of forex structuring; Morgan Stanley says goodbye to head of...
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UBS offers nine-month play on Apple
UBS is offering US investors a nine-month structured product based on Apple that has a chunky, 8.56% coupon, which comes as a result of a relatively...
Union Bank issues five-year cliquet linked to Russell 2000
Union Bank has issued a five-year cliquet growth product for US investors that comes in a certificate of deposit wrapper and is linked to the Russell...
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