FVC analysis
RBC leads issuance with natural resources reverse convertibles
Natural resources are the chosen underlying for Royal Bank of Canada's latest products, while Barclays has issued one linked to the S&P Bric 40
FVC custom indexes
FVC custom indexes
Product retrospective: Coupons for inflation
Coupons for inflation
Morgan Stanley offers accelerated returns
Delivering on declines
Morgan Stanley’s hybrid tracks eurozone returns
Mixing up Eurozone returns
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
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
Product retrospective: Perfect for pensioners
Perfect for pensioners
Bank of America offers digital payout while three issuers compete with leveraged S&P 500 products
Barclays reverse convertibles dominate the latest US structured product offerings, but there is also diversion into digital payouts and leveraged returns
Credit Suisse offers a knock-in with a low barrier
Prepared for knock-ins
Product performance
Product performance
FVC Custom Indexes
FVC Custom Indexes
Trade of the Month: Commodity indexes
Trade of the Month: Commodity indexes
Meteor offers a four-way index play
Playing the averaging
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
Walker Crips tempts UK investors with commodities exposure
Commodity opportunities
Product review: JP Morgan's first quarter call
First quarter call
Product review: UBS offers growth from inflation
Growth from inflation
Product performance: May 2011
Product performance
FVC custom indexes: May 2011
FVC Custom Indexes
Merchant Capital offers an agriculture basket
Buying into agriculture
Market snapshot: May 2011
Market snapshot
Product performance
Product performance