Structured products
Commodity plays and hedges
Barclays Bank is offering a link to 14 commodities and one commodity index which allows investors to take a stake in the rise of the main commodity subsectors while also providing a natural hedge against inflation
Reaping the dividends
Credit Suisse is offering a five-year CPPI product, based on a pick of Australian stocks and offering semi-annual income based on dividend yields
Best in Japan - BNP Paribas
Structured Products Asia Awards 2008
Unpacking Russia's onshore potential
As an emerging market, Russia offers massive growth potential in the structured products arena. Yet the bulk of business is conducted offshore for wealth clients, leaving little trace of an onshore market. While investors and bankers are keen to develop…
Best in South Korea - KDB Asset Management
Structured Products Asia Awards 2008
Tracker with liquid underlying
Vontobel is offering retail investors a money market note that tracks its six-month total return swap index. The value of the product is the level of the Vontobel six-month total return swap index minus the management fees
Best in Hong Kong - HSBC
Structured Products Asia Awards 2008
Incisive Itau
Banco Itau is one of the few banks in the Brazilian structured products market that is able to structure and distribute both capital-protected funds and synthetic structured notes. The fact that the bank can also hedge most of its products in-house has…
