Leverage
Leveraged return super trackers back
Demand for leveraged call spreads, commonly referred to as super trackers, with highly geared upside and soft protection, is slowly coming back. Investors are looking to diversify counterparty exposure away from high street banks and inflation growth…
Japan’s new leverage limit will hurt carry trade, says Glenn Stevens
Japan FSA's 25:1 leverage limit implemented on August 1 could kill the popularity of the carry trade for retail investors, says Gain Capital's chief executive
Structured credit landscape revives the basics
Credit goes back to basics
Looking for true leverage
Looking for true leverage
Invesco Powershares launches low-volatility and high-beta S&P 500 ETFs
Invesco PowerShares has responded to investor requests for a different take on equity-based investments with low-volatility and high-beta index-based ETFs
Leverage: friend or foe?
Leverage: friend or foe?
US structurer of the year
US structurer of the year
FSA considers increased regulation for exchange-traded products
The UK's financial regulator is considering strengthening its regulation of all kinds of exchange-traded products because of their increasing complexity
ETFs and Indexing Report
Complexity for all
Equity markets in constant state of extreme event expectation, says expert
Models of US and UK equity markets show players expect fresh outbreak of crisis
Swiss structured products turnover down in 2010
While November was a good month for structured products in Switzerland, volumes fell 4.39% during the period from January to October 2010.
What Basel III means to us
What Basel III means to us
Market maturity keeps German structured products on track
A mature performance
German investors use ETF products as "short-term investment tools"
German investors use ETF products as "short-term investment tools"
Geneva Association: "stabilising" insurers should be better repesented in systemic risk supervision
Insurance think tank bemoans underrepresentation of the "firefighting" insurance sector in Financial Stability Board and confusion over its role in the financial crisis
‘Deleveraging is a brutal process – but it is necessary’: William Cunningham profile
Profile: William Cunningham
Expect double-dip, not inflation, says CreditSights' Purtle
Chief strategist at CreditSights Louise Purtle warns that global deleveraging makes double-dip recession more likely than inflation.
Swiss issuance paints a mixed picture
Highs and lows recorded for structured products, according to SVSP and Scoach figures.
CFTC retail FX rules fail to curb offshore trading
New US Commodity and Futures Trading Commission rules will hasten flow of retail foreign exchange business abroad
Cesr reveals European financial markets risks, including double-dip recession worry
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (Cesr) has made public for the first time its analysis of trends, risks and vulnerabilities in financial markets
ETFs: simple, or simply confusing?
Exchange-traded funds first appeared 20 years ago as transparent, easy to understand alternatives to actively managed funds. But as they have developed some of this transparency and simplicity has been lost. The first Structured Products ETF survey asks…
Erste lists first turbos on Romanian exchange
Erste Group Bank AG issued nine individual certificates on to the Bucharest Stock Exchange as it joins the Romanian market.
Lloyds TSB hires leveraged credit director
Bank hires Paul Osment from Evolution Securities.