Structured products
Editor's letter
Editorial
Weathering the storm
Lehman Brothers' collapse has potentially ruinous consequences for the US structured products market. But delegates and speakers at the Structured Products West Coast Conference were surprisingly upbeat about the future and opportunities that have arisen…
Building in safety
The structured products market in Asia is almost unrecognisable from where it was 12 months ago. Products such as accumulators and range accrual notes have been consigned to history, while product manufacturers and distributors alike look for new ways…
Changing landscape
The Irish structured product landscape is changing as volatile financial markets push investors to seek alternative assets, capital protection and shorter-term products. In a week of financial turmoil and failing banks, issuers' credit ratings were a…
CS indicative market data
Data by Credit Suisse
MSCI blends frontier and emerging markets
Index provider MSCI Barra has launched the MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Index, and a more tradable proxy the Frontier Emerging Markets Apex Index. The indexes are designed to underlie structured products and other financial instruments such as ETFs.
Higher and higher
Volatility
Gathering confidence
Securitisation
The FX effect
US bond funds that invest in international assets have seen their returns hit by the recent rally in the US dollar. Dalia Fahmy looks at how fund managers are trying to insulate themselves from exchange rate movements and gauges market opinion on which…
Column: Nigel Sillis
Labour costs are rising even though labour is no more scarce. How is this happening?
Profile: David Strachan
The FSA's head of financial stability would seem to have his work cut out for him. He talks to Alexander Campbell about new rules that should safeguard against future bank failures
Don't bet on the bank
The failure of a major investment bank. The bailout of the US mortgage agencies. The rumoured demise of further financial institutions. Now does not seem like the ideal time to be investing in the financials sector. Or does it? Laurence Neville reports
Market Graphic: What drives Russian bond spreads?
Market graphic
Chaos theory - Why a little instability might be no bad thing for the future of the credit market
The recent history of the financial markets has been a story of cheap and widely available credit and advances in risk management techniques that have enabled investors to accurately price - in theory, at least - a book of risks. David Boorer of Northern…
Back to basics
We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask... Michael Thompson of Standard & Poor's looks at factors influencing the credit crisis
A Proactive approach
Portfolio reconciliation
Clearing a path to lower op risk
Counterparty risk
Konrad von Habsburg
Profile
CDS processing - The challenges
Automation