Structured products
Barclays delivers fourth issue of Emerging Markets Optimiser
Barclays Wealth has released the fourth issue of its five-year Emerging Markets Optimiser, which has accrued more than £50 million since the first tranche launched in February. The plan offers the Eastern European option that was introduced in the June…
Lehman releases inaugural issue of Dual Income Plan
Lehman Brothers has launched the first issue of its Dual Income Plan, offering investors a choice of 8.8% annual fixed income or 0.71% monthly fixed income. The five-year plan, linked to the FTSE 100 index, provides full return of capital at maturity…
Measuring liquidity risk
Liquidity risk
Burgeoning buyouts
Bulk purchase annuities
Powerful ambition
Backed by the financial might of Russia's Renova Group, Avelar Energy is investing in conventional and renewable energy assets across western Europe. Avelar's CEO, Igor Akhmerov, tells Roderick Bruce about his company's strategy
Power struggle
Forward liquidity has been lacking in the UK power market since 2002, and attempts to improve the situation have met with little success. Roderick Bruce considers what the future may hold for UK power trading
A path for renewables
Renewable energy needs to become a bigger part of the US energy mix, but there are still a number of hurdles to clear, explains Richard McMahon of the Edison Electric Institute
Profile: David Slade
The chairman of the Loan Market Association, also leveraged finance head at CSFB, talks to Matthew Attwood about the path to recovery for the beleaguered loan market
A fruitful time for hybrids
Structurers are coming up with novel ways of tapping investor demand for credit-linked products without the default risk associated with the previous generation of structured products. Their answer? Hybrids. Regis Benichou and Arnaud Scemama of Calyon…
Reviving RMBS
With only one public RMBS issue in the UK during the whole of 2008, the market would seem to have hit rock-bottom. But moves are afoot to help restore confidence in the market and enable banks to finance mortgage lending, as Laurence Neville reports
Banks slam '10%' rule for new structured deals
Sell-siders criticise proposals by the European Commission to force originators to retain 10% of new structured finance deals; but others welcome the move
Column: Robin Keck
Recently redundant? Don't fret: a few positive steps could soon see you back in the market
Column: Andrew Kasapis
The events of the past year have played havoc with the cash bond/CDS basis, with traders struggling to make the strategy profitable. Is there a way of making alpha from this trade?
The return of the real money manager
With hedge funds feeling the pinch from the liquidity squeeze, real money managers have emerged as a reliable source of liquidity, earning themselves mandates from investors with cash to put to work. Credit gains an exclusive insight into how one of the…
Asian retail focus
The process of tempting Asian retail investors back to credit has been an uphill struggle for distributors, who have tried to stimulate interest with a series of structured first-to-default notes that give sovereign exposure. But heavy mark-to-market…