Structured products
Market Graphic - How to hedge an ABS portfolio
For investors stuck with toxic ABS assets on their books, devising an effective hedging strategy is crucial. Jean-David Cirotteau and Marc Teyssier, analysts at SG, look at one such strategy
Creating a monster
Funds that are under government control have grown rapidly in recent years, to the extent that the architects of these funds risk losing sight of why they were set up in the first place
Rescue remedy
Governments and central banks have finally acted to attempt to stem the crisis that engulfed the world's financial markets. But is their response too little too late? Laurence Neville finds out
Crunch time
Corporate credit is likely to suffer while banks repair their balance sheets
Lee Olesky
The new CEO of e-trading platform Tradeweb, who has been involved with the firm - and the modern derivatives market - since their inception, talks to Matthew Attwood
The great liquidity illusion ... and how regulators can make sure it never happens again
The root cause of the recent credit crisis was a misplaced belief that liquidity in the global financial markets was abundant, argues Anastasia Nesvetailova. This misconception enabled a localised crisis in the US subprime mortgage market to leach into…
Euro Corporates fear continued borrowing squeeze
As banks tighten their purse strings, European companies may find themselves suffering from impaired borrowing capabilities, potentially leading to funding shortfalls, says Moody's
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Mittel European Reflections
Central and eastern Europe is a huge potential market for structured products and exchange-traded funds. Structured Products' first conference in the region explored commodities, foreign exchange and diverse underlyings, but the most pressing issue was…
Greater China plus Singapore
JP Morgan is offering Asia confidence notes in Singapore and US dollars in the form of a two-and-a-half year product that links into four equity indexes, in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan
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
