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Issuance volumes in the US surged by 60% in January, dominated by leveraged returns, review bonds and kickouts. HSBC led the way, while Investec maintained its lead in the UK market in January. Tim Mortimer...
The UK Financial Services Authority review of structured products has encouraged issuers to take a closer look at product design, with an eye to creating investments with an outcome that investors can...
Future Value Consultants provides the analysis of a comparison of three reverse convertibles issued in the US and based on the common stocks of three of the most popular underlyings for retail structured...
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FVC custom indexes
The best performing FVC index in Europe in January was the accelerated index. However, this was the worst performing index over the past year, down by 14.8% since the end of January 2011. The index is very closely correlated with the Euro Stoxx 50, the...
RBS digital product caters to multiple outlooks
The Royal Bank of Scotland is offering three versions of the same five-and-a-half year structured product, allowing investors to pick a view on the future of the FTSE 100 Index. The choice is low, medium and high expectations, with a risk on the credit...
Unicredit note offers capped returns on Euribor
UniCredit has issued a three-and-a-half year structured product to German investors offering a capped return that is based on Euribor, the European interbank lending rate. Capital is protected and the variable income is above the risk-free rate
HSBC goes for digital growth on the DJIA
HSBC has launched a digital structured product – called a buffered performance security – that offers a potential 16% return at maturity or even more. The product, which is on offer to US investors, has no cap but principal is at risk
Trade of the month: Autocallables
Autocallables remain popular products, helped by the offer of high target returns (pseudo-yield) in excess of what is achievable by a reverse convertible linked to the same underlying over the same period. Autocallables come in many forms. The typical...
Market snapshot
As the volume of sales of structured products in the US decreases, leveraged return products remain the most popular product, followed by bonus structures and then reverse convertibles. The UK market continues to be led by capital-at-risk annual kickouts,...
FVC custom indexes
Generally used as an underlying for growth rather than income products in the US, the S&P 500 index is used as an underlying for approximately 20% of products issued but accounts for roughly 50% of notional products sold. It is the benchmark index in...
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