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Pure Capital offers targeted negative correlation
Pure Capital, a New Zealand-based quant hedge fund manager, has launched a new open ended fund which aims to provide protection similar to a structured product but make money in both rising and falling markets, replicating the standard strategy adopted…
Carbon copies from Croci
The financial crisis generally puts paid to all things environmental, but not now. Deutsche Bank has just launched to retail and institutional investors two new Ucits III funds based on "a stock portfolio of attractively valued companies with low…
CDS: Spreads widening trend continues
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (June 16)
Vienna Stock Exchange offers fundamental blue chip exposure
The Vienna Stock Exchange (VSE) has launched a new fundamental version of the Austrian Traded Index (ATX), the benchmark Austrian equity index. The index uses a new method of weighting instead of the traditional market capitalisation model to take into…
Keydata sale expected this week, says insolvency administrator
Keydaya Investment Services will be sold as a going concern this week, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the company's insolvency administrator. In the interim, the Defined Income Plan Issue Keydata launched hours before the UK Financial Services…
CDS: Spreads widen on credit quality fears
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (June 15)
Compensation still high on the agenda for lawmakers
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CDS: Spreads widen for second day
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (June 12)
CDS: Spreads widen; eyeing Treasury yields
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (June 10)
CDS: Spreads narrow on renewed risk appetite
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (June 10)
Deposits turn to rates and inflation in US
Rates and inflation-linked certificates of deposit are being launched by US providers as sales of the government-backed investments continue to be robust. Wells Fargo, HSBC and JP Morgan are all offering structures which expose investors to changes in…
NDFA throws its hat in the ring for Keydata
Around an hour after Jubilee Financial Products made public its interest in buying Keydata Investment Services, which was declared insolvent by the UK Financial Services Authority yesterday morning, NDFA has declared its interest in buying the UK…
Jubilee asks after Keydata Investment Services
Jubilee Financial Products has approached Keydata Investment Services, through its insolvency administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), with an expression of interest to buy the company.
Swiss trade body unveils product risk classifications
The Swiss Structured Products Association is to launch a new online risk classification system for all listed structured products in Switzerland from the beginning of July. Products will now receive an SSPA risk rating based on the value at risk of the…
CDS: Spreads narrow on improved sentiment
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (June 9)
CDS: Spreads tighten on better-than-expected US jobs data
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (June 5)
Bassi takes up the helm at the European Commission
Ugo Bassi has been appointed head of unit for asset management in DG Markt, replacing Niall Bohan, and in turn will take over the lead for the discussion of structured products in the context of other retail investment products in Europe.
CDS: Spreads widen on rate hike fears
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (June 8)
Op risk modelling under fire
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HSBC launches new range of structured plans
HSBC Life has launched a new range of structured plans for the UK pensions market, which promises to give 100% capital protection and lock in the highest value achieved during the lifetime of the plan whilst exposed to global equity markets. The HSBC…
Investor appetite for structured products returns, says deVere
Appetite for structured products has recently increased in the independent advisory market, says Nigel Green, CEO of UK-based firm deVere and partners, which has extended its distribution partnership with Deutsche Bank.
Pang and Park start at Credit Suisse
One of the worst kept secrets in the Asian structured products market was revealed to the public earlier today, when Credit Suisse confirmed the appointment of Ken Pang and Min Park as co-heads of equity derivatives and convertibles, Asia-Pacific. Pang…
CDS: Spreads widen for second day
Credit default swap 5-year mid-levels for structured products issuers (June 4)
Commerzbank launches commodity index ETF
Commerzbank has launched a new exchange-traded fund which tracks its newly-launched proprietary commodity index on the Xetra platform of Deutsche Börse. The index, launched on May 11 2009, incorporates the 16 most liquid commodities from precious metals,…