Structured products
Axa enters corporate loan market with SocGen
Insurer targets French mid-caps to diversify investment portfolio
Outflows for gold ETPs despite high equity market volatility
During May 2012 the price of gold dropped over 6% and investors withdrew over €1 billion from gold ETPs
ETFs dominate underlyings in latest SEC registrations
Exchange-traded funds form the basis of a raft of structured products registered with the US regulator in the week ending June 8
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
Stress testing with fully flexible causal inputs
Stress testing with fully flexible causal inputs
Swedish names make appearance in latest SEC structured product filings
Swedish wealth manager Garantum Fondkommissionen and Swedish Export Credit Corporation returned to the US structured products market last week
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
JP Morgan launches capital-at-risk dual directional note linked to S&P 500
Two roads to no regret
Trade of the month: Defensive products
Trade of the month: Defensive products
Five-year income linked to FTSE 100 and the Bank of England base rate
Benchmarks and base rates
FVC custom indexes
FVC custom indexes
Product performance
Product performance
Market snapshot
Market snapshot
Lookback
Lookback
JVB shows its rates traits
The low-rates navigator
Velocityshares implosion puts leveraged ETNs in the frame
Terminal Velocity
Exchange-traded sliced and diced
ETNs and ETFs: going head to head
Special report: The Americas
Special report: The Americas