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Interest Rate Derivatives House of the Year - Barclays Capital
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House of the Year, Taiwan - Chinatrust Commercial Bank
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Quants' tail of woe
Liquidations of large quantitative equity portfolios prompted widespread misfiring of hitherto robust quant models. Historically unusual returns volatility and multi-billion-dollar mark-to-market losses ensued. Leading hedge fund managers talk to Jayne…
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The risk of one
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Building through selling
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Algorithmic investment strategies
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Italian unease
Italy
Carry on trading
Structured products
Leaking like a SIV
Structured Finance
Shrugging off subprime
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Meteor’s Prima back with enhanced returns
Meteor Asset Management, the investment and retail products arm of Meteor Capital Holdings, has launched two new products: the Growth Plan 4 and the Galaxy Protected Commodities Plan 3.
LLB and ABN launch first Islamic exchange-traded trackers
Liechtensteinische Landesbank Switzerland and ABN Amro have launched the first Islamic exchange-traded index trackers linked to the performance of the LLB Mena indexes. The Islamic certificates have been listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange, and ABN will…
Abbey releases capital-guaranteed bonds for wary investors
UK Bank Abbey has launched four new capital-guaranteed bonds designed to cope with the volatile market conditions. The products guarantee return of all capital at their four-year maturity and each tracks different international indexes, including the UK…
BME and FTSE launch responsible investment index
Spanish stock exchange Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) and FTSE Group (FTSE) are to launch the FTSE4Good Ibex, a new responsible investment index comprising Spanish companies listed on BME’s markets, early next year.
Hong Leong Tokio Marine Takaful and Citi launch new scheme
Hong Leong Tokio Marine Takaful and Citibank have launched the Capital Protection Investment Link Fund (CPIL) scheme, an Islamic insurance product, in Malaysia.
Barclays launches regular income bond
Barclays Wealth has launched the five-year Regular Income Bond which pays an annual income of 8%. The product is linked to the Dow Jones Stoxx50 Index, which offers exposure to 50 ‘supersector’ stocks across Europe, providing significant exposure (38 per…
Elsip for Asia
RBS has launched equity-linked structured investor products (Elsip) under its newly built structured investor products programme in Hong Kong, which allows the bank to issue its own branded products through local distributors.
Isda launches Equity MCA Protocol
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Hamich leaves Stoxx to look for opportunities
Lars Hamich is leaving Stoxx, the pan-European index provider, after 11 years with parent company DowJones Indexes. Hamich previously worked for Deutsche Börse as a product manager where he was the Dow Jones representative and developer of the DowJones…