Structured products
People: Citi shakes up structuring group
Citi shakes up structuring group
Editorial: Protecting privacy
Regulators have not produced a new code for private banking and wealth management. They have simply allowed new rules for retail products to creep into the wealth space
Lookback
Lookback
Structured Products: Asia Report
Structured Products: Asia Report
Product performance: reverse convertibles
Reverse convertibles are highly sensitive to volatility, which is one of the reasons that the coupons promised can be so high, but it is also why capital is very much at risk. FVC compares the virtues and workings of three such products from the US
Trade of the month: Bear market products
Trade of the month: Bear market products
Société Générale offers alternative to spread betting to UK and German markets
Société Générale's product is likely to be used by those who have lost out on spread betting or equity investors wanting to boost returns.
US structured products show preference for baskets of underlyings
Recent US structured products issuances have contained several products with multiple underlyings and the latest follows suit with basket products from HSBC, Barclays and Morgan Stanley.
Iceland returns to market with $1bn 5yr deal
Iceland returns to market with $1bn 5yr deal
Bonds don’t always behave as their risk profile should dictate – Marty Fridson column
Right call, wrong outcome
When ‘bad’ assets aren’t bad – Caveat Lector column
Bargain hunt
Eurozone bailouts exacerbating the problem – John Redwood interview
In conversation with...John Redwood
Greece debt volatility provides openings for basis trading
A basis for trading
Product retrospective: Perfect for pensioners
Perfect for pensioners
BMO gains stronghold in the US issuance with raft of reverse convertibles
Reverse convertibles are the product of choice in the latest issuance, Bank of Montreal has the lion's share.
HSBC lists physical Russia ETF as noise around swap-based ETFs grows louder
HSBC's head of ETFs says the bank has no plans to create swap-based products and there should be steps to make structures clearer to investors.
ETF providers hit back at 'hearsay' in the press and regulator concerns about synthetic ETFs
ETF providers have been angered by the continuing focus on synthetic ETFs by regulators such as the Bank of England and the IMF. But they are particularly concerned about the bad press coverage.
Merchant Capital rapidly expands its distribution arm with the addition of seven staff
Merchant Capital expands its distribution arm with the addition of seven staff