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.
FSA requests responses on Ucis by June 27, leaving open the inclusion of delta 1 certificates
Banks must respond to the UK Financial Services Authority by Wednesday with feedback on new rules that will clamp down on the sale of unregulated collective investment schemes. Whether delta 1 products will be caught by the new rules is unclear
Meteor hires Stuff to lead listed product distribution
David Stuff has joined Meteor Investment Solutions only weeks after leaving the UK structured products team at Royal Bank of Scotland
Srikant Dash joins Bloomberg to create index business
Days after leaving S&P Indices, Srikant Dash has joined Bloomberg to lead and create a new index business
Growth replaces income in UK products as providers apply RDR principles
The Retail Distribution Review is already having an impact on structured products in the UK if new products launched this month are anything to go by
Cost pressures making online distribution attractive to UK structurers
Retail Distribution Review forcing structurers and distributors to consider greater use of online platforms for trading structured products
Morgan Stanley offers deferred kickout on the FTSE 100
Kickout choice
Trade of the month: Defensive products
Trade of the month: Defensive products
FVC custom indexes
FVC custom indexes
Velocityshares implosion puts leveraged ETNs in the frame
Terminal Velocity
Special report: The Americas
Special report: The Americas
Tempting Australian investors back into structured products
A tighter grip on yield
Swedbank keeps it simple
An eye for opportunity
Short-term leveraged notes the new battleground in Germany
The trading products supermarket
People: Former SG execs launch multi-commodity discretionary hedge fund
Former SG execs launch multi-commodity discretionary hedge fund
IFAs will abandon fee-based actively managed structured funds for ETFs as RDR bites
The Retail Distribution Review will encourage financial advisers to switch from selling structured funds to exchange-traded funds, say market participants
Structured Products Americas: some welcome consistency in the complexity debate
Consistent about complexity
Editorial: free the fee
Editor's letter
Taking the Retail Distribution Review to Europe
Replicating the RDR
Dividend exposure in vogue with ETN providers
UBS and Société Générale are among several banks and index providers to tap demand for dividend exposure with new ETNs and benchmarks this year
Structured Products Nordic Region: Sweden ‘most diverse market for underlyings’
Swedish investors are the best in Europe at taking global views when buying structured products, according to a panel at the Structured Products Nordic Region conference in Stockholm
Structured Products Nordic Region: Swedish regulator warns of information overload
Sweden's financial supervisory authority warns about standards of information, sales practices and conflicts of interest ahead of Mifid II implementation
Wealthy Greeks turn to offshore securities to escape redenomination risk
The massive drop in deposits held in domestic banks in Greece is partly attributable to transfers of savings into overseas accounts or securities to mitigate fears of a Greek eurozone exit and a return to the drachma
Fears that IFAs will focus on the 'super-rich' post-RDR
As the regulatory environment gets tougher for UK retail banks, some industry figures warn of an exodus of IFAs from the retail market in order to target high-net-worth investors
Facebook makes its debut as a structured product underlying
Investors in Europe have been buying structured products linked to Facebook since its stock market launch and now US investors will get a chance to do the same as the first product linked to the company's shares is registered with the SEC