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Private banks caught in the crossfire from retail regulations
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Private banks have tended to concentrate on the super-wealthy – clients they now call professional investors – but as new regulations governing structured products continue to categorise most high-net-worth...
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Transparency and simplicity remain a key theme for structured product providers in Germany and Switzerland, where even high-net-worth-individual accounts at private banks want simple payouts and low counterparty...
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Margin efficiency is going to be key to both listed and OTC derivatives markets, but the equity market has been lagging - a result of regulatory opacity. Michael Watt talks to Mike McClain, executive vice-president...
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RBS retains structured products in restructure
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Royal Bank of Scotland retains its investor products and equity derivatives businesses in its latest restructuring, but ditches cash equities, corporate broking, equity capital markets and mergers and acquisitions. Richard Jory reports
ETFs: moving beyond the synthetic-versus-physical debate
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The past year has seen the exchange-traded funds industry plagued by discussions about the relative complexity of synthetic and physical ETFs. Will the newly published European Securities and Markets Authority guidelines on the products put the matter...
Start of 2012 sees surge in commodities ETF launches
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Commodities have returned to the structured products spotlight as providers come up with new, more efficient ways of gaining exposure to the asset class and explore innovative ways to package commodity-based investments. By Hannah Collins
The new normal: structurers learn to live with low interest rates
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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 cautious in Europe and many developed markets approach...
India structured products market adapts to new oversight regime
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India’s financial regulator has moved to increase oversight of the country’s nascent structured products market. What will be the impact on the level of growth and the type of structures offered?
The lure of leveraged funds in China
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Fund management companies in China are offering structured listed open-ended funds to high-net-worth retail investors, with some funds pushing leveraged multi-asset products traded both on exchanges and OTC simultaneously. The latest proposed structures...
How index and ETF innovation is delivering more focused exposure to...
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Emerging markets ETFs are gaining traction with investors as providers innovate and generate new strategies for emerging markets exposure. As ETFs based on emerging markets local currency government bond indexes emerge, and others target specific themes...
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