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Trade of the month: the best structures for low volatility and low interest rates
Trade of the month: the best structures for low volatility and low interest rates
Apple reverse convertible losses mitigated by European barrier
Taking a bite of sour Apple
Market snapshot: US investors pile into leveraged return notes
Tim Mortimer analyses the latest monthly trends in the US and UK structured product markets
Market snapshot: Reverse convertibles back on top in the US
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Structured products offer accelerated returns on US equity market gains
Banks have launched a swathe of S&P 500 leveraged return notes on the back of new highs for the benchmark US equity index
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UBS tops issuance with reverse convertibles linked to financials and natural resources
Financials, energy and natural resource stocks form the basis of most of the latest raft of reverse convertibles from UBS
Financials back in vogue as basis for US structured products
Bank shares continue to form the basis of many structured product filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission
Financials and tourism the latest picks for US structured product underlyings
Of the 91 structured products filed last week with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, more than 40 were reverse convertibles and nine were digitals. Financials and tourism were the most popular underlyings
UBS offers nine-month play on Apple
A quick bite of Apple
Banks offer short-term plays on natural resources
Royal Bank of Canada leads the offering of short-maturity structured products in the US public market with 12 products, half of which have maturities of just three months
Holiday appetite forms the basis for latest JP Morgan and UBS products in the US
JP Morgan and UBS both filed products linked to seasonal underlyings with the SEC on April 19
Barclays steals the show with double-digit digital
Barclays Bank has offered a digital and a leveraged return product in the US, both of which offer high rates of return
Divergence in return profiles hints at returning US risk appetite
Digitals and leveraged return notes linked to the S&P 500 are among the latest products to be filed with the SEC, while UBS has offered a reverse convertible linked to MGM Resorts
HSBC offers four-year digital structure as financial underlyings prove popular
Leveraged return notes and reverse convertibles remain popular in the latest US public issuance, but HSBC is offering a digital structure with a long tenor and products linked to financials
US issuers diversify from reverse convertibles
The latest filing with the SEC is dominated by leveraged return notes and reverse convertibles, with some autocallables and a straddle offering diversity