Structured products
WHAT IS THIS? Structured products are investments that have multiple components. For retail investors, the most common form is a bond plus an option – these tend to be standardised, sold in small tickets and large volumes. Managing the risks of large structured products portfolios is one of the biggest challenges dealers face.
Structured Products Europe: Investors unaware of regulatory improvements, say speakers
The supervision of structured products has improved in recent years, but investors aren’t aware of many of the changes, say conference speakers
Lookback
Lookback
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
Editorial: Neat tricks
Editorial
Variable annuities offer mixed opportunities in Asia
Variable outlook
A new framework for assessing product complexity
A model of complexity
Demystifying digital options
Demystifying digital options
Automation shapes banks’ structured product strategies
The race for automation
Prinz leads UBS credit structuring cuts as equity derivatives departures rise
Jonathan Boos has been made redundant from UBS in the US, while Pascal Prinz leads the casualties who have been cut from credit structuring in London
Structured Product House of the Year – Société Générale
Asia Risk Awards 2012 winner: Société Générale – Structured Product House of the Year
FVC custom indexes
FVC custom indexes
Trade of the month: Autocallables
Trade of the month: Autocallables
The Structured Products IFA Survey 2012
The Structured Products IFA Survey 2012
People: Chan stays as Asia structured products head at Deutsche following cuts to equities
Chan stays in Deutsche's Asia shake-up
Editorial: Getting a grip in Singapore
Editorial: Getting a grip in Singapore
Structured Products Asia: Short-term opportunities in the spotlight
Short-term saviours
RBS investor products group faces cuts in merger with non-linear trading
Martin van Pieterson named global head of non-linear trading and investor products as Royal Bank of Scotland merges teams
Chan remains Asia structured products head at Deutsche following cuts to equities
Susan Chan remains in post at Deutsche Bank following job losses in Hong Kong and Japan as asset classes are consolidated into one structured products group