Structured products
Editorial: Neat tricks
Editorial
Alior Bank: Battling high deposit rates in Poland
What Alior has in store
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
Structured Investment Group aims to make a splash in UK distribution
Counting on experience
Saving structured finance: Dealers vie for SPV replacement swaps
The SPV swap replacement game
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 products could lead the way in new nomenclature standards
Structured products could lead the way in new nomenclature standards
RDR rules risk being seen as a product endorsement, say IFAs
IFAs question whether RDR will act as product endorsement
Non-linear momentum strategies
Non-linear momentum strategies
White paper: How Using The Right Index Can Expand Opportunities In European Markets
Prior to 2012 there was a gap in investable products covering the European small-cap, midcap, and SMID-cap market segments. Anecdotally, hedges against these segments were often created with products based upon liquid large cap indexes. Given the mega…
S&P Smit 40 Index tracks 'Next 11' emerging markets as investors look beyond Brics
S&P Dow Jones Indices index tracks the four largest economies in the Next 11 in a reflection of growing demand for broader emerging markets exposure
Structured product 'disguised' interest may be subject to higher taxes
Returns on more structured products could be subject to income tax rather than capital gains tax following a tightening of the law by the UK tax authority
Insurers 'must understand risk on non-traditional assets'
Modelling and regulatory impact of new asset classes must be considered in search for higher yield
S&P Dow Jones Indices takes on high-dividend and low-volatility combination in industry first
S&P Dow Jones Indices has combined two of the year's biggest themes so far in its latest index, the S&P 500 Low Volatility High Dividend Index
Scoach listings plummet as risk appetite rises
Figures from Swiss structured products platform show falls in listings between August and September reflect year-on-year trend
Leveraged products see steep declines in Europe
Structured products and exchange-traded products that use leverage see outflows in Europe
Debut growth plan from Structured Investment Group tracks basket of global indexes
Structured Investment Group's first product is a six-year growth plan based on a basket of four indexes with Morgan Stanley as counterparty
Photo gallery: Structured Products Asia Awards 2012
Selected photos from this year's Structured Products Asia Awards evening, which took place in Singapore in September
Photo gallery: Structured Products Asia
Selected images from September's Structured Products Asia 2012 conference in Hong Kong
Covered call ETFs bridging the gap between ETFs and structured strategies
Exchange-traded funds that buy call options on the underlying stocks are attracting big inflows in North America