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Iosco offers general and specific principles to deal with equity and...
Iosco has confronted the 'one size fits all' debate in its draft Principles on Financial Benchmarks, the responses for which are due today (May 16)
With investors demanding a more thorough approach to investing and increasingly viewing investments as systematic sources of risk and return, Barclays has focused on the development of tradable indexes...
The hunt for security over yield has seen surge of interest in so-called smart beta strategies. But while many smart beta indexes have outperformed the market, can they provide a cost-effective and fit-for-all...
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IndexIQ carves out hedge fund replication niche
Launched in 2006 with a mission to work exclusively in alternative investments, New York-based exchange-traded funds provider IndexIQ has carved out a niche in hedge funds replication. Hannah Collins talks to chief executive Adam Patti
Catley Lakeman – ‘keeping the banks honest’
Catley Lakeman acts as a go-between for banks and asset management companies looking to buy their structured products. Vita Millers talks to founding partner Russell Catley
Euro Stoxx 50 leveraged return note from Goldman Sachs offers 67% maximum...
Goldman Sachs has offered a leveraged buffered two-year note linked to the Euro Stoxx 50 that offers potential return of 67.5% and full capital repayment
Tankard natural gas indexes greeted with scepticism
Traders show little enthusiasm for Tankard indexes of European natural gas, despite ongoing concerns about the reliability of assessments by price reporting agencies. Gillian Carr reports
Trade of the month: Emerging markets underlyings
Emerging markets have always captured the imagination of investors and investment firms, so it is natural that they feature in structured product markets. Volatilities of emerging markets indexes and equities are usually significantly higher than those...
The Libor rate scandal: exclude equity indexes from upcoming regulation...
The Libor-rigging scandal has sparked moves to tighten the rules behind the production of key industry benchmarks. But are regulators right to have roped broader equity indexes into a debate that was triggered by attempts to rig a financial market reference...
Investec capital-protected income plan allows investors to recover missed...
Investec Structured Products has issued the FTSE 100 Target Income Deposit Plan 1, a non-commission product suitable for fee-based advisers that offers an annual income stream while protecting initial capital against market risk
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