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Rock bottom interest rates in a difficult macro environment and the prospect of upcoming regulations have led to a need for banks to focus on products optimised around constraints. As the mood remains...
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Low interest rates and market volatility are unsettling variable annuity providers in the US. Blake Evans-Pritchard reports on how they are coping in this challenging environment
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Investors in Asia-Pacific look to rates-based hybrids for yield
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Low interest rates mean market participants expect the trend for hybrid structures to continue this year, boosted by demand for yield pick-up and diversification
Deutsche Bank rolls out series of MSCI and Australian interest rate...
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Deutsche Bank’s latest exchange-traded fund launch on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange includes ETFs tapping into local equities from Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia as well as Australian interest rates
Derivatives house of the year: JP Morgan
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JP Morgan is not the world’s most popular bank. Its chief executive, Jamie Dimon, spent 2011 jousting with regulators – including his now-famous cross-examination of Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, at a conference in Atlanta – sometimes...
Interest rate derivatives house of the year: Deutsche Bank
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Well-timed trades can appear lucky – hindsight revealing that a decision to buy or sell coincided precisely with a market trough or peak. On the other hand, it’s often said that luck is self-made – the decision is informed by some conviction or...
Inflation derivatives house of the year: Royal Bank of Scotland
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The inflation derivatives market is characterised by long-dated trades, big notional sizes, a lack of liquidity and – where corporate clients are involved – a lack of collateral. In other words, it is exactly the kind of business that will be punished...
Hedge fund of the year: Brevan Howard Asset Management
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Anyone can rake in money when a bet ends up being wildly successful – it’s much harder to avoid losing money when fortunes turn. Brevan Howard Asset Management is one of very few global hedge funds to have achieved both in the last couple of years....
Sovereign risk poses greatest threat to European insurers
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Eiopa stress test shows threat to insurers of low interest rates
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