Structured products
WHAT IS THIS? Structured products are investments that have multiple components. For retail investors, the most common form is a bond plus an option – these tend to be standardised, sold in small tickets and large volumes. Managing the risks of large structured products portfolios is one of the biggest challenges dealers face.
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
Editorial: Neat tricks
Editorial
Variable annuities offer mixed opportunities in Asia
Variable outlook
A new framework for assessing product complexity
A model of complexity
Demystifying digital options
Demystifying digital options
Automation shapes banks’ structured product strategies
The race for automation
Prinz leads UBS credit structuring cuts as equity derivatives departures rise
Jonathan Boos has been made redundant from UBS in the US, while Pascal Prinz leads the casualties who have been cut from credit structuring in London
Structured Product House of the Year – Société Générale
Asia Risk Awards 2012 winner: Société Générale – Structured Product House of the Year
FVC custom indexes
FVC custom indexes
Trade of the month: Autocallables
Trade of the month: Autocallables
The Structured Products IFA Survey 2012
The Structured Products IFA Survey 2012
People: Chan stays as Asia structured products head at Deutsche following cuts to equities
Chan stays in Deutsche's Asia shake-up
Editorial: Getting a grip in Singapore
Editorial: Getting a grip in Singapore
Structured Products Asia: Short-term opportunities in the spotlight
Short-term saviours
RBS investor products group faces cuts in merger with non-linear trading
Martin van Pieterson named global head of non-linear trading and investor products as Royal Bank of Scotland merges teams
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
SG opens door to Singapore retail investors as new financial adviser regime implemented
New rules governing the sale and distribution of structured products in Singapore are set to be put to the test with the first product issued since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy
Demand for commodity-linked structured products ‘almost dead’
Panellists at the Structured Products Asia conference were downbeat over the prospects for commodity-linked structures
House of the year: Citi
Structured Products Asia Awards 2012
Best in China: Standard Chartered
Structured Products Asia Awards 2012
Best in Japan: Société Générale
Structured Products Asia Awards 2012
Technology innovation: Numerix
Structured Products Asia Awards 2012
SG launches first structured product under Singapore’s revamped regulatory regime
French investment bank becomes the first player to meet the Monetary Authority of Singapore heightened standards for structured product issuance in the city-state
Trade of the month: Long-dated products
Trade of the month: Long-dated products