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Footloose and FTSE-free
Switching from FTSE 100-linked structures to commodity-based plays and emerging markets exposures has helped Merchant Capital achieve impressive sales this year. Magda Ali hears about the benefits of taking...
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...
Dow Jones Indexes has launched a commodity index series that seeks to minimise the contango effect on index performance using a strategy that selects futures contracts exhibiting the least amount of contango...
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People: Eisenhauer to exit Standard & Poor's
Tim Eisenhauer to leave S&P; Ferdinando Samaria named head of global commodities at UniCredit; Andy Sparks joins MSCI as managing director and head of product management in New York
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
Lamb discusses CME Clearing Europe's goals
Andrew Lamb, chief executive officer at CME Clearing Europe, talks to Jessica Meek about the new clearing house's goals and its operational risk structure in the face of new legislation
BBVA is to add volatility sub-index to its Jim Rogers’ resources index...
BBVA plans to launch a sub-index to its global resources index with better risk-controlled access to the sector
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ETFs linked to agricultural commodities surge as supply tightens
Exchange-traded funds linked to some agricultural commodities such as wheat have seen the strongest investment inflows over the first part of the year, with soft commodities presenting low or stretched inventory levels leading the trend
Grasp of investor trends now a necessity
With investor money in commodities at record highs, understanding investor trends and their impact on the market is becoming ever more important, writes Rebecca Hampson
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