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Leveraged return super trackers back
Demand for leveraged call spreads, commonly referred to as super trackers, with highly geared upside and soft protection, is slowly coming back. Investors are looking to diversify counterparty exposure...
The overthrow of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi may have sent oil prices falling in recent days, but a return to full oil production in Libya is not likely for some time to come due to on-going...
Market volatility and global uncertainties are driving investor demand further into gold and volatility-linked products as a means of hedging and managing downside risk, and boosting structured product...
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Banks turn to dynamic algorithm-based structures to exploit interest...
Demand for fixed-income dynamic interest rate strategies that combine short-term algorithms and long-term positions on interest rate futures is slowly returning
Risk awards 2012: now open for submissions
Twenty-seven categories are up for grabs, including new awards for OTC clearing service of the year and OTC trading platform of the year
Barclays provides Japan with first listed ETNs
Barclays Capital is to list nine exchange-traded notes (ETNs) on the Tokyo Stock Exchange through its exchange-traded product platform iPath, making them the first ETNs and foreign securities listed in Japan
Index and ETF providers look to alternative weighting to avoid the...
Alternative weighted bond indexes may "not generate excess returns", but offer investors a new way to look at sovereign risk in the context of their bond portfolios, say market particpants
Risk Australia Rankings 2011: Internationally connected
High interest rates, a strong currency, and rapid increases in volatility amid turmoil in European and US debt markets have resulted in another challenging year for the derivatives dealers and brokers in Australia. During a period that saw foreign banks...
Italian investors drawn to commodity baskets to hedge and diversify...
Structured notes linked to baskets of commodities are proving popular among Italian retail investors as a way to diversify from government bond exposure, against a backdrop of inflation and government debt fears
WTI/Brent spread impacts commodity index returns
A re-balancing of indexes to include, or increase Brent weighting could be on the cards to combat sliding WTI/Brent spread, say index providers
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Technology can provide a competitive advantage in banking. How it is applied by Tier 1 and Tier 2 institutions, to the benefit for their risk management systems, is discussed.
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