FVC analysis
Market snapshot: US investors pile into leveraged return notes
Tim Mortimer analyses the latest monthly trends in the US and UK structured product markets
Meteor defensive autocall links to FTSE 100 and Euro Stoxx 50
Meteor Asset Management is offering the newly popular defensive autocallable to UK investors, linked to the FTSE 100 and the Euro Stoxx 50. The product's American barrier has been set at a relatively safe distance from the strike levels
No kickout for UBS autocallable note but returns beat direct investment in the underlying
UBS sold an optimised autocallable structured note to US investors in February 2012 that has so far not kicked out but has paid back better than a direct investment in the underlying, the stock of Haliburton
Bank of Montreal emerging markets straddle delivers returns in rising and falling markets
Returns in both directions
Eric Penser offers partial protection on international equity index basket
Penser is partial to protection
The effect of RDR on UK retail structured products
The RDR effect
JP Morgan worst-of structure straddles gold miners ETF and Russell 2000
The best of the worst-of
Morgan Stanley capital-at-risk digital linked to the FTSE 100
Digital at risk
Barclays six-year defensive autocall linked to the FTSE 100
Returns on this defensive autocall are linked to the FTSE 100 subject to a trigger level lower than the strike. The product pays no commission, in line with the UK’s Retail Distribution Review, and offers returns of up to 7% a year
Multi-index underlyings: worth the extra risk?
Roughly 13% of the UK's retail structured products market consists of products based on more than one index. Many offer double-digit returns, but some providers say their higher risk levels are the opposite of what the structured products industry needs…
Pricing and risk in changing markets
Getting the price right
Merchant Capital offers the best of three mixed portfolios
Looking back at three
Bank of America note swaps protection for higher returns
A cut and a cap
Dual directional plan on FTSE 100 provides two routes to profit
Believing in the bull and the bear
FVC custom indexes
FVC custom indexes
Product performance
Product performance
Trade of the month: Dual directional products
Trade of the month: Dual directional products
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
FVC custom indexes
FVC custom indexes
Trade of the month: Autocallables
Trade of the month: Autocallables
Market snapshot
Market snapshot