Investec
Five-way collateralisation
Five-way collateralisation
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
The outlook for the Eurozone in 2011 – five top credit investors speak out
Senior investors at Pimco, BlackRock, State Street, AllianceBernstein and Investec give their views on how the Eurozone crisis might play out in 2011.
Market snapshot
Market Snapshot
Investec to issue collateralized notes
Investec is to become the third issuer of collateralised notes as it indicates a January launch.
Riche joins Investec
Riche joins Investec
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
UK Wrap: Plan managers diversify away from FTSE
The products this fortnight offered an exciting variety of commodities, emerging markets, the Eurostoxx index, S&P index and the FTSE index
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
Low volatility favours accelerated plans
UK investors have recently been offered emerging markets as an underlying, a commodity fund and no capital protection as providers have been able to structure some attractive payoffs
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
UK Wrap: The holy grail - income and capital protection
Products are still being influenced by the pricing environment and despite a couple of spicy options most of the products seen this fortnight are safe repeats
The FSA's Retail Distribution Review: What price retail advice?
What price advice?
Investec launches boutique subsidiary to target wealth managers
Investec unveils its first boutique products aimed at the wealth and discretionary management market
Volatility drives UK products towards growth
FTSE and growth products are popular as rising volatility makes income products difficult to structure
UK Wrap: Growth and income products proliferate despite rising volatility
Growth and income plans were by far the most popular style of product over the past three weeks, thereby disproving the previous UK wrap prediction that autocall products would increase in popularity
High yield may suffer after government stimulus withdrawal: Jeff Burch profile
The co-head of credit at Investec Asset Management says double-B companies may struggle if economic growth stalls after governments pull the plug on their stimulus measures.
Barrier remains intact
The 50% barrier in the Investec Capital Protected FTSE 100 Income Plan 1 has remained in place since the launch of the product last year. Those opting for monthly or quarterly payments will have received their coupons, and the same looks likely for those…
Korean bonds stay strong, despite rising tensions
Sound economic fundamentals have meant South Korea’s sovereign bond yields have remained low despite the political standoff on the Korean peninsula.