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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...
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...
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,...
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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...
Product performance
Based on three different US underlyings, FVC outlines the performance of two accelerated growth products and an investment that is principal protected
Retrospective: Morgan Stanley leverages the downside
This Morgan Stanley product was aimed at bearish investors seeking to profit from declines in the Russell 2000 Index. Principal was at risk if the index performed above a certain level
Retrospective: JP Morgan autocall victim of short-termism
Short-term products carry the disadvantage that there is so little time to recover should the market move against the investor. This was true for the six-month autocallable JP Morgan created in November 2011, based on the Russell 2000 Index and the SPDR...
Morgan Stanley's six-year kickout linked to the FTSE 100
Morgan Stanley is offering a FTSE 100-based plan offering the higher of a fixed coupon or the performance of the index, as long as a 50% barrier is not breached at maturity. For the product to pay above the fixed return, the index would have to be below...
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