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.
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Leveraged return super trackers back
Demand for leveraged call spreads, commonly referred to as super trackers, with highly geared upside and soft protection, is slowly coming back. Investors are looking to diversify counterparty exposure away from high street banks and inflation growth…
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
People: UBS expands derivatives structuring
People: UBS expands derivatives structuring
Footloose and FTSE-free
Footloose and FTSE-free
SEC reveals fraud and abuse after Finra warns greedy investors
Triggering alarm bells
Gilliat gets creative with its structures
Spicing up the payouts
Market volatility sees potential payouts rise and interest in gold and volatility ETNs intensify
Market volatility sees potential payouts rise and interest in gold and volatility ETNs intensify
Banks turn to dynamic algorithm-based structures to exploit interest rate cycles
Demand for fixed-income dynamic interest rate strategies that combine short-term algorithms and long-term positions on interest rate futures is slowly returning
Index and ETF providers look to alternative weighting to avoid the 'concentrations and trend following bias' of market-cap weighted indexes
Index and ETF providers look to alternative weighting to avoid the 'concentrations and trend following bias' of market-cap weighted indexes
Italian investors drawn to commodity baskets to hedge and diversify from bond exposure
Italian investors drawn to commodity baskets to hedge and diversify from bond exposure
Dow Jones Global Shipping Index to serve as the basis for Guggenheim Shipping ETF
Index provider Dow Jones has launched a global shipping index that will form the basis for the Guggenheim Shipping ETF
Photo gallery: Risk India explores the role of complex products and regulation
A selection of pictures from the Risk India event held in June, hosted by Asia Risk magazine
Update: SEC reveals fraud and abuse after Finra warns 'greedy' investors
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has published the results of its latest investigation into the selling of structured products, two days after Finra warned 'greedy' investors to take care
Listed warrants return to the Polish market
Raiffeisen Centrobank has broadened its structured products range in Poland with the launch of more than a hundred products based on domestic underlyings on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, including the first listed warrants since 2005
Esma consults on ETFs and Ucits structured products
Esma consults on ETFs and Ucits structured products
Deborah Fuhr leaves BlackRock for another role within the industry
Research formerly conducted by Deborah Fuhr will now be undertaken by BlackRock's Investment Institute
Deutsche Bank launches db-X ETF platform in the US
Building on its success in the US ETP business, Deutsche Bank has listed its first five ETFs under the db-X brand
Termination of iPath volatility ETN 'likely to be repeated' in latest version
Barclays has issued a second version of its iPath Long Enhanced S&P 500 Vix Mid-Term Futures ETN, which some observers say risks suffering the same fate as its predecessor unless market conditions change
Morgan Stanley offers leveraged single-country exposure to China
Morgan Stanley's leveraged product falls back in line with market conventions, but some products in the latest issuance feature extended tenors and reduced participation rates