Analysis
Product retrospective: Coupons for inflation
Coupons for inflation
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
US structured products show preference for baskets of underlyings
Recent US structured products issuances have contained several products with multiple underlyings and the latest follows suit with basket products from HSBC, Barclays and Morgan Stanley.
Product retrospective: Perfect for pensioners
Perfect for pensioners
BMO gains stronghold in the US issuance with raft of reverse convertibles
Reverse convertibles are the product of choice in the latest issuance, Bank of Montreal has the lion's share.
Tenors get extended as structurers face poor market conditions
Maturities for US structured products get stretched and Barclays issues a reverse convertible with a high risk rating
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
Video: De-risking pension liabilities
Emanuel Eftimiu speaks to Kelvin Wilson, associate director, Grant Thornton about defined pension fund liabilities and what they mean for private equity buyers.
Goldman Sachs tops list of firms that met CFTC
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Energy Risk US Natural Gas House of the Year: JP Morgan
JP Morgan wins Energy Risk's 2011 US Natural Gas House of the Year Award
Product performance
Product performance
FVC Custom Indexes
FVC Custom Indexes
Trade of the Month: Commodity indexes
Trade of the Month: Commodity indexes
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
Multiple default threat for Indian foreign currency convertible bonds
Crunch time for convertibles
Dodd-Frank: the story so far
In on the Act
Product performance: May 2011
Product performance
FVC custom indexes: May 2011
FVC Custom Indexes
Market snapshot: May 2011
Market snapshot
Trade of the month: commodity-linked products
Trade of the month: commodity-linked products
Types of operational risk loss by event, February 2009 to February 2011
Types of operational risk loss by event, February 2009 to February 2011