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BofA-Merrill hires Zaimi to head FICC and structured products sales
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has named Sanaz Zaimi as head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), as well as head of debt and equity Structured...
Commodity-linked structured and exchange traded products (ETPs) have suffered in the second quarter of 2009 as inflows into the investments have slowed, according to Barclays Capital.
The precipitous decline in long-term bond and swap rates at the end of 2008 focused attention on how to truly value long-term liabilities. Storebrand says it has come up with a market-consistent solution...
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The carry trade has been much maligned over the past 12 months. A key driver of hedge fund profits in recent years, the strategy blew up spectacularly last year, hit by mass unwinding by hedge funds desperate to meet investor redemptions. But it wasn't...
Baltic breakdown
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Nomura offers protective safeguards with Flexis
Nomura has launched Flexis, a new structured product that offers protective safeguards to calm the default, valuation and liquidity concerns of investors. The predefined process for the resolution if an arranger defaults - in the form of resilience mechanisms...
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