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.
Cost pressures making online distribution attractive to UK structurers
Retail Distribution Review forcing structurers and distributors to consider greater use of online platforms for trading structured products
Morgan Stanley offers deferred kickout on the FTSE 100
Kickout choice
Trade of the month: Defensive products
Trade of the month: Defensive products
FVC custom indexes
FVC custom indexes
Velocityshares implosion puts leveraged ETNs in the frame
Terminal Velocity
Special report: The Americas
Special report: The Americas
Tempting Australian investors back into structured products
A tighter grip on yield
Swedbank keeps it simple
An eye for opportunity
Short-term leveraged notes the new battleground in Germany
The trading products supermarket
People: Former SG execs launch multi-commodity discretionary hedge fund
Former SG execs launch multi-commodity discretionary hedge fund
IFAs will abandon fee-based actively managed structured funds for ETFs as RDR bites
The Retail Distribution Review will encourage financial advisers to switch from selling structured funds to exchange-traded funds, say market participants
Structured Products Americas: some welcome consistency in the complexity debate
Consistent about complexity
Editorial: free the fee
Editor's letter
Taking the Retail Distribution Review to Europe
Replicating the RDR
Dividend exposure in vogue with ETN providers
UBS and Société Générale are among several banks and index providers to tap demand for dividend exposure with new ETNs and benchmarks this year
Structured Products Nordic Region: Sweden ‘most diverse market for underlyings’
Swedish investors are the best in Europe at taking global views when buying structured products, according to a panel at the Structured Products Nordic Region conference in Stockholm
Structured Products Nordic Region: Swedish regulator warns of information overload
Sweden's financial supervisory authority warns about standards of information, sales practices and conflicts of interest ahead of Mifid II implementation
Wealthy Greeks turn to offshore securities to escape redenomination risk
The massive drop in deposits held in domestic banks in Greece is partly attributable to transfers of savings into overseas accounts or securities to mitigate fears of a Greek eurozone exit and a return to the drachma
Fears that IFAs will focus on the 'super-rich' post-RDR
As the regulatory environment gets tougher for UK retail banks, some industry figures warn of an exodus of IFAs from the retail market in order to target high-net-worth investors
Facebook makes its debut as a structured product underlying
Investors in Europe have been buying structured products linked to Facebook since its stock market launch and now US investors will get a chance to do the same as the first product linked to the company's shares is registered with the SEC
Structured Products Advances in Technology Guide & Directory 2012
Structured Products Advances in Technology Guide & Directory 2012
Parala Capital launches 'index of indexes' in conjunction with Dow Jones Indexes
Macro strategy boutique Parala Capital has signed its first index deal with Dow Jones Indexes
Readiness of IFAs for Retail Distribution Review called into question
Most independent financial advisers are still unprepared for the implementation of the FSA's Retail Distribution Review, according to market participants
S&P licenses new Italy LargeMidCap index to JP Morgan for bespoke products
JP Morgan is to use S&P Indices' new Italy LargeMidCap Index as the basis for bespoke structured products