Equities
Frontier hedge fund investors eye Iraq
A slate of telecoms IPOs and efforts to modernise banking regulations have some frontier market hedge funds enthused about prospects for Iraqi equities as institutional investors sit on the sidelines
Insurers increase equity exposure despite risk management challenges
Joining the equity rotation
First 'Smit' ETF launched as emerging markets equity inflows gather pace
Launch of Smit 40 Index ETF by Commerzbank coincides with surge in demand for emerging markets equity products
Index providers look to apply minimum volatility success story to other asset classes
Minimum volatility strategies have been a huge hit in the equity space. Index providers are now planning to apply them to fixed income and commodities
Lookback
Lookback
Small reinsurers ‘shortening bond durations’ to protect against interest rate volatility
Companies prepared to take ALM mismatch to access higher yields on reinvestment
Insurers begin 'cautious' re-risking of investment portfolios as yields slump
Third-quarter results show small increase in equity exposure and lower-grade corporates
Merchant Capital offers the best of three mixed portfolios
Looking back at three
Trade of the month: Dual directional products
Trade of the month: Dual directional products
Lookback
Lookback
The Structured Products IFA Survey 2012
The Structured Products IFA Survey 2012
Structured Products Asia: Short-term opportunities in the spotlight
Short-term saviours
Chan remains Asia structured products head at Deutsche following cuts to equities
Susan Chan remains in post at Deutsche Bank following job losses in Hong Kong and Japan as asset classes are consolidated into one structured products group
Reinsurers urged to expand equities allocation amid 'fixed-income bubble' fears
Flight to fixed income exposing reinsurers to low yields and interest and inflation risks
Pollux Brazilian Equities Fund: Pollux Capital
Americas Awards 2012
Dividend strategies get sophisticated as risk aversion and sustainability drives demand
Targeting high yields
Optimal design of algo-alpha trading strategies
Optimal design of algo-alpha trading strategies
Swiss structured product turnover falls by nearly half compared to 2011
Turnover of structured products and warrants listed on the Scoach exchange falls more than 40% in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period last year. Industry figures blame increased risk aversion and a rise in OTC trading activity
Melchior European Fund: Dalton Strategic Partnership
12th European Single Manager Awards 2012
Europe could be headed for Japan-style stagnation, says Crispin Odey
Challenging conventions
China’s QFII expansion heralds next step in liberalisation of market
The foreign legion
US equity ETFs draw big bucks as European ones lose them
While North American equity ETFs have had big inflows since the start of the year, those based on European equities have had huge outflows
Mitigating op risks for CCPs post-crisis
To the rescue