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Dividends have caused sizeable losses for dealers and investors over the past few months, as a precipitous fall in expectations has hit structured product issuers and those who participated in dividend swaps. Mark Pengelly investigates
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Deutsche Börse lists exchange-traded Xetra Gold in Luxembourg
Deutsche Börse Commodities has listed a new exchange-traded product for investors in Luxembourg, offering the option for delivery in physical gold. The notes, which are zero coupon bonds denominated in gold, are fully liquid and listed on the Frankfurt…
Commodities head Morgan Metters departs UBS
Morgan Metters has left his position as executive director of commodity index products at UBS in London. The bank declined to comment on Metters' departure.
NDFA launches new growth and income products
UK distributor NDFA has launched two new structured products: the Capital Secure Fixed Growth Plan and Fixed Income Plan November 08.
Macquarie offers outperformance deposit
Macquarie in Australia has launched the Macquarie Deposit plus Access 200, a structured deposit which is designed to provide exposure to the outperformance of Australian equities.
Bank of Montreal profits from structured product trading
Good performance in the structured products trading business has helped Bank of Montreal's (BMO) Capital Markets Group to record growth for the third consecutive quarter, its latest financial reports have revealed.
UK eschews Basel II capital requirements
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ProShares releases short and leveraged ETFs tracking commodities, Euro and Yen
ProFunds Group, manager of short and leveraged funds, has launched 12 exchange-traded funds (ETF) providing short or leveraged exposure to commodities, the Euro and the Yen. The ETFs tracking broad commodities and crude oil indexes, as well as the ETFs…