Certificate of deposit (CD)
Adding bulls and bears
Handelsbanken has had a good year, helped by its incorporation of bull and bear strategies and move into covered warrants. Richard Jory talks to Peter Frösell about providing trading products to complement the capital-protected and certificate investor…
Corporate statement: German investment
With investor confidence being slowly rebuilt, UniCredit’s Juliane Bürger offers some valuable insight and advice to investors into choosing the right product, the advent of reverse convertible product offerings and the market volumes, now that it is…
SocGen launches into US deposit space with Wells Fargo certificate
Société Générale (SG) has wrapped its proprietary long short strategy, Wise, into a certificate of deposit (CD) issued by Wells Fargo. The CD links to a volatility controlled version of the strategy, the SGI Wise US Vol Target 8% Excess Return Index.
Coping with collapse
The demise of Lehman Brothers spelled potential disaster for the US market. Reverse convertibles have sunk on the back of falling equity markets, fear of structured products is spreading like wildfire in the wake of negative media coverage, and a hoped…
A simple plan
Changes to capital gains tax and the spectre of counterparty risk have done no favours for the German structured products market in the latter half of 2008. But with a level tax landscape due in 2009 and a move towards simple structures, Berenberg Bank…
CD wrapping
JP Morgan is offering a three-year growth product linked to the S&P 500 index with principal protection in a CD wrapper. Participation goes up to a 145% knock-out level
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…
Rainy day in Georgia
Smith & Howard Wealth Management
Uncertain certificates
Structured funds
Deutsche Bank - Product review
The German heavyweight continues to roll out an array of exciting products month after month. Its Alpha Express Certificate, which has early exit dates, is linked to the Dax and divDax