Feature/Foreign exchange

Fortis offers gold protection in Turkey

Fortis Investments and its wholly owned Turkish entity Fortis Portföy have launched the Fortýs Koruma Amaçlý 1. Fonu, an onshore gold-linked capital protected fund. The trade is the fifth capital protected fund launched by Fortis in Turkey.

Barcap’s inflation inspiration

Barclays Capital has launched the AUD Inspire Index, which is designed to provide synthetic inflation protection for Australia using a weighted combination of actively traded and liquid inflation swap indexes from the US, UK and euro area.

SGAM AI launches leveraged reverse ETF in Italy

Société Générale Asset Management Alternative Investments (SGAM AI) has released an exchange-traded fund (ETF) with up to 200% leveraged, reverse exposure to the Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50 index, enhanced by a monetary return. The SGAM ETF XBear Dow Jones…

Deutsche presents Ucits III 130/30 fund

Deutsche Bank has launched the DB Platinum IV Croci Global 130/30 fund, a Ucits III compliant fund which is designed to provide exposure to long and short equity positions on stocks from Europe, Japan and the US. The bank has raised €90 million in assets…

Barclays launches volatility ETNS after 2008 spikes

Barclays has launched two new volatility-linked exchange-traded notes (ETNs). The notes will track two indexes from the S&P 500 Vix Futures indexes series, which was launched a week ago and aims to replicate a long position in publicly traded Vix futures…

Settlement settled?

The collapse of Lehman Brothers and other banks last year proved that settlement risk in the forex market has been greatly reduced. But while forex operational risk managers may be giving themselves a pat on the back, there are warnings that settlement…

Unblocking the euro pipeline

Last month brought a huge EUR48.4 billion of new corporate bonds, more than half the total amount of supply one investment bank predicted for the whole year in the euro market. Matthew Attwood looks at the drivers of the trend, and finds that in one…

A capital offence

In believing that healthy capital reserves would enable banks to weather the credit crisis, lawmakers and banking chiefs neglected one important fact, says Suresh Sankaran of Fiserv IPS-Sendero: that robust capital adequacy ratios do very little to keep…

The repo effect

The ability of banks to use securitisation deals as collateral for repo funding from central banks has resulted in larger deals with more esoteric assets. Laurence Neville looks at how this change is affecting the securitisation market as a whole

Insurance debt: Don't take a tumble

Holders of bonds from the insurance sector should prepare themselves for a rough ride in 2009. Lingering concerns over the exposure of certain names to toxic structured credit assets and the difficulty of raising more debt in the current environment are…

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