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Hedge funds benefit from lower prime broker fees
Hedge funds can lock in favourable rates for prime brokerage services as competition forces banks to rethink pricing, says former BlackRock managing director David Geffen who now runs a consultancy
Merchant Capital structured products investors are due to be charged hefty fees at product maturity as custodian Reyker Securities takes over as plan manager.
Structured products should benefit from the new RDR landscape, says Future Value Consultant's Tim Mortimer
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The Structured Products IFA Survey 2012
Investors were once in the dark about the names of the institutions that issued structured products. But now, in the kind of progress hoped for by regulators, anyone in the UK buying these products will know who the counterparty is, according to the latest...
Trade of the month: the impact of RDR on structured products
The implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) at the end of this year will represent one of the biggest overhauls of the UK retail investment sector for many years. The two main developments are the abolition of commission charges in favour...
Stripping out commission will transform UK market, says FSA's Woodall
Linda Woodall, head of investments at the UK Financial Services Authority talks about the balance between consumer protection and the need to police financial advisers ahead of the Retail Distribution Review
The FSA's Retail Distribution Review: What price retail advice?
Change is afoot in the UK as the structured products market prepares for the Financial Services Authority’s Retail Distribution Review, which comes into force at the beginning of 2013. Clare Dickinson asks the FSA’s head of investment policy Peter...
Trade of the month: Secondary pricing and fair value
As with any competitive market, fee levels are influenced to a large degree by the market, since a product cannot normally hide high fees and appear competitive.
Trade of the month: fees, profit and risk in structured products
The success of any structured product issued in the retail market is partly determined by the fee structure, in which fees are generally taken in three ways – first in the commission level paid to the broker or adviser, second in the the fee charged...
European Commission faces resistance over Kids
The Joint Association Committee (JAC) – a representative of the European Securitisation Forum, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Association for Financial Markets in Europe and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association –...
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