Articles by Pierre Cooper
Commodity ETPs: limited viability?
Commodity exchange-traded products face an uncertain future unless they can adapt to regulations seeking to impose strict limits on firms’ commodities positions, while fighting competition from products designed to circumvent the new rules entirely…
Reaching for more
As investors face volatility in the financial markets, Irish boutique investment firm GlobalReach Securities is seeing greater demand for structured products. Pierre Cooper talks to Peter Duff, the firm’s head of private clients, about the desire to…
Capinordic expansion
Capinordic Asset Management, part of the Denmark-based Capinordic Bank, is planning to launch a structured products distribution business in Sweden. Pierre Cooper talks to Johan Tjeder, the fund manager who has been brought in to help set up the operation
Winning strategies
The new breed of systematic structured products offers investors a third way between long-only managers and hedge funds. As well as providing strategies similar to hedge funds, but with better transparency, liquidity and lower costs, the products could…
CDS: Spreads widen tracking stocks
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (September 1)
UK Wrap: Walker Crips offers new at risk growth plan
There was a bumper issuance of 24 structured products last week, thanks mainly to Investec launching its 11th collection of plans.
CDS: Citi, BoA lead rally
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (August 28)
CDS: Narrowing trend continues
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (August 26)
CDS: Citi, MS lead spreads wider
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (August 27)
UK wrap: Meteor bursts forth with an at risk kickout plan
Meteor blazed a lone trail in a week that was dominated by the re-launch of three Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) notes.
Structured products preferred by advisers, says Morgan Stanley survey
Structured products have come top of the list of investment products financial advisers would recommend to their clients, according to a new survey by Morgan Stanley. Structured plans leapt two places from the bank's last survey in December 2008,…