Indexes
Jubilee plan to optimise growth
Jubilee Financial Products, a UK-based boutique asset manager, launched last week a new growth product, which aims to get the best entry point for investors.
UK Wrap: Emerging Markets and bonds appear as underlyings
MSS has launched its first structured product in the UK market, offering a 100% capital protection. The six-year investment gives 100% participation in an equally-weighted basket consisting of four underlyings - subject to a maximum return of 45% growth.
Updated: Investec shares the wealth with income increase
Investec will increase the return on its five-year Capital Guaranteed FTSE 100 Income Plan 2 by 40 basis points due to changing market conditions.
Negative repos distort dividend hedging strategies
Abnormally low repurchase rates are forcing banks to hedge their dividend exposures with swaps instead of forwards.
Barclays launches latest guaranteed deposit accounts
Barclays Capital, the investment bank division of Barclays Bank, has launched two more deposit accounts, as part of its structured deposit series for offshore bonds. The three-year guaranteed digital deposit account and the five-year guaranteed FTSE 100…
Dow Jones launches Islamic index for sharia ETF
Dow Jones has launched a new Islamic index, which has been simultaneously licensed to an exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider in the US. The Dow Jones Islamic Market International Titans 100 Index will track 100 companies outside the US which have passed…
Victory at last
The seismic movements in the financial markets last year confounded even the experts, as correlation took down every asset class and unwitting trader going. Victor Sperandeo, better known as Trader Vic, talks exclusively on the back of his latest index…
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Structured Products
Casam adds leveraged and short ETFs
Casam has added leveraged and short ETFs to its range, as well as products based on government and corporate bonds. The ETF provider has also included new equity products in the 17 new structures launched today in Paris.
US Wrap: Closing the week in emerging markets and S&P 500
Three structures were on offer last Friday, reverse convertible, kick out and accelerated growth products, with the increasingly common emerging markets accompanying the usual flurry of S&P 500-linked notes.
SG launches tradeable dividend exposure in UK
Société Générale (SG) has launched four new certificates on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) giving exposure to the dividends of companies included in the FTSE 100 and Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 indexes.
Morgan Stanley feeds hunger for Gilt-backed products
Morgan Stanley has launched a new UK government bond backed plan and re-issued three other plans, one of which is the third in a series of Gilt-backed issues, designed to mitigate counterparty risk.
US Wrap: Single note offers exposure to international equity
Another single note was released into the US market yesterday, continuing the slow pace of issuance for the week. The product was issued by Bank of America and gives exposure to the MSCI Eafe Index, which tracks the performance of international equity.
US Wrap: Bank of America follows RBC lead to Japan
Bank of America has launched an accelerated growth note linked to the Nikkei 225 index, following the issuance of a note 10 days ago by Royal Bank of Canada which tracked the Japanese equity benchmark as one of three indexes in a basket.
Meteor launches Prima Growth Plan 16
Meteor, the UK distributor, has launched the sixteenth version of its Prima Growth Plan which has been issued by AAA-rated Rabobank. The kick-out style product has the potential to pay a 10% coupon after one year, paying the return on its first…
US Wrap: Deutsche offers emerging markets funds play
Deutsche Bank has launched an emerging markets note which links to two exchange-traded funds based on Brazil and China, amid a busy start to the week for the US market. The structure gives investors 100% equally weighted participation in the iShares FTSE…
US Wrap: Strong issuance run stalled by Doughnut Friday
Issuance in the US structured products market ground to a halt on Friday - the second blank day in a fortnight. The number of deals has been increasing lately on the back of increased confidence, although providers have still been looking to external…
S&P launches Ucits version of commodities index
Standard & Poor's has launched a new version of its Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) which is compliant with the Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities European Directive III (Ucits III). The latest index will use caps to…
S&P launches a new version of GSCI index
Standard and Poors (S&P) has launched a new version of its GSCI commodity market index.
US Wrap: Providers opt for external credit
Providers were looking to independent credit agencies to issue structured products as the US structured products market hit mid-week. Both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley teamed up with Eksportfinans to issue their latest products, which included an…
US Wrap: RBC turns Japanese on long-term note
Royal Bank of Canada has launched a new principal protected note linked to three indexes, including the Nikkei 225 Japanese equity benchmark. The structure lasts six-and-a-half years and also links to the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Euro Stoxx, with equal…