Structured products
Autocalling China
Morgan Stanley has produced a two-year autocallable linked to the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund with a 10% buffer. Increases above the target level are not passed onto the investor
Product performance
Products with strike dates in January and weekly valuations are reviewed this month
Trade of the month: Secondary trading
The secondary trading of structured products in the UK is limited by low liquidity, which is partly due to bid-offer spreads that are wide enough to deter investors. While most providers of retail structured products in the UK publish prices throughout…
Market snapshot
Tim Mortimer of Future Value Consultants looks at the pricing issues for structured products in different markets and provides his trade of the month
The White stuff
JW Advisors was established earlier this year by Joseph White, one of a growing number of intermediaries leaving investment banks to go independent. Now White is constructing credit diversified portfolios for institutional clients, who are reaping the…
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
Best in China - Standard Chartered Bank
Structured Products Asia Awards 2010
Index innovation - Standard & Poor's
The strategic markets approach has served Standard & Poor's (S&P) well over the past 12 months, specifically the index provider's Risk Control Indexes, Currency Beta Series, Asian Thematic Indexes and S&P 10 and S&P 40 indexes
Battling the benchmark
In 2007, investors demanded more active commodity indexes to capitalise on the bull run in the asset class. But benchmarks and beta offerings alike were hit by last year's drawdown. Will this lead investors to abandon directional offerings in favour of…
Environmental exploitation
Recessions usually spell bad news for the environment. Promises of investment in clean energy and sustainable technology wither away as mediocre returns drive investors to count the cost of easing their conscience. But today's burgeoning green sector…
Seeking simplicity
Almost a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, German retail investors are again becoming comfortable with products from US investment banks. This means that domestic players will need to fight hard to retain their increased market share as the…
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…
Morgan Stanley turns bullish on Asia exposure with four new ETFs
Morgan Stanley has unveiled a new play on Asian equity exposure in the US, a US$5million deal that links to an equally weighted basket of four exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
RBS returns to market with NDFA following Keydata collapse
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is returning to the intermediary market with its new range of structured products after replacing its now-insolvent administrator Keydata with NDFA.
ProShares hit by lawsuits over leveraged ETFS
Exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider ProShares is the target of two class action lawsuits filed by Labaton Sucharow in the US over the performance of its UltraShort Real Estate and Financials funds. The actions come in the wake of media scrutiny over…
HSBC launches its first ETF in Europe
HSBC issued its first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Europe on August 25. Listed on the London Stock Exchange and tracking the FTSE 100 index, the Ireland-domiciled ETF will be sold first in the UK, and later in continental Europe. The total expense ratio…
ETF Securities debuts commodity funds on Tokyo Stock Exchange
ETF Securities has launched a new platform in Japan for physically backed precious metal commodities exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Five funds began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on August 24.
Deutsche Bank lists hedge fund and carbon ETFs in London
Deutsche Bank has listed its hedge fund exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The listing of the Ucits III-compliant ETF, based on the db Hedge Fund Index, follows the launch of a euro-hedge version on the Xetra Frankfurt in…
