Dividends
Avoiding dividend meltdown
Dealers are starting to pay closer attention to dividend risk housed on their exotic books after many incurred sizeable losses last year. What are banks doing differently and can another dividend meltdown be avoided? Matt Cameron reports
SG launches tradeable dividend exposure in UK
Société Générale (SG) has launched four new certificates on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) giving exposure to the dividends of companies included in the FTSE 100 and Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 indexes.
Gambling on dividends
Dividends have caused sizeable losses for dealers and investors over the recent months, as a precipitous fall in expectations has hit structured product issuers and those who participated in dividend swaps. Mark Pengelly investigates
Paying for dividends
Dividend risk