Structured products
Regulators review short-selling restrictions
Regulators from across the globe continue to review and adjust short-selling restrictions.
Steering solvency
Regulator Q&A
Testing the metal
Interest in physically backed exchange-traded gold products boomed last quarter on the back of counterparty risk fears. But the industry is divided on what impact the surge of inflows had on the physical gold market's prices. Could the same effect now be…
A barrier of sorts
Product Reviews
A capital lifeline?
Guaranteeing investors' capital with your own bonds has always been a convenient way for banks to borrow money from investors at the same time as offering them a cut in the upside of the chosen underlying in a structured note. Such fundraising is often…
Baird steps forward
US distributor RW Baird founded its structured products business in 2007 from a standing start, building the infrastructure, compliance and educational initiatives from scratch. Sophia Morrell talks to Dayna Kleinman, the company's vice-president of…
Size matters at Lyxor
Lyxor has been building its exchange-traded fund business for eight years and now boasts EUR24.4 billion of assets under management - almost a quarter of the European market. What began as a single offering on the CAC 40 now aims to be a complete toolbox…
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
Habsburgo at the helm
Family office Habsburgo and Asociados in Mexico builds large, tailor-made portfolios comprised of structured products for its clients. The approach has paid off over the past year as the products have performed better than traditional assets, but while…
Holding counterparty risk at arm’s length
Exchange-traded funds have been as exposed to talk of counterparty risk as the next structured product, although the risk is lower. Under the European Union's Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities III regulations, ETFs are…
Tapping the Source
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch took a look at the exchange-traded product market, particularly in Europe, and decided that to enter as a provider they needed scale. So the three got together and created Source. Richard…