Tag: Structured products
Lynceus Partners reports €600m issuance volume in one year
Europe | Industry
09 Oct 2018 by Pablo C Conde Herman
Fintech for asset managers and private banks says there are still brokers and intermediaries out there operating under a ‘black-box’ approach
Is it August 2015 all over again?
Europe | Expert View
26 Sep 2018 by Tiago Fernandes
For those who work in structured products and derivatives in 2015, August 3 was not a good day.
‘Naked’ allocation to stocks and bonds carries a high-risk premium, BlackBee
Europe | Industry
11 Sep 2018 by Marc Wolterink
BlackBee is marketing three index-linked structured products to its clients in Ireland.
Stop lying to yourself: Capital protection is an insurance!
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07 Aug 2018 by Tiago Fernandes
Much has been said about the structured product industry and the self-inflicted wounds we committed in the past
Is this the end of Dual Currency Deposits?
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13 Jul 2018 by Tiago Fernandes
When dual currency deposits became extremely popular during the 1990s, it was easy to find them at every single retail branch in Asia, with advertising boards offering a higher yield than traditional deposits
Correlation – the new asset class for market-linked products
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08 Jun 2018 by Tiago Fernandes
Common asset allocation strategies typically splits the investment portfolio into different asset classes, based on theory behind, following Harry Markowitz’s Modern Portfolio Theory stating that, because of asset correlations, portfolio risk, or standard deviation, was lower than that calculated by a weighted sum.
My Kingdom for an Autocall!
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20 Apr 2018 by Tiago Fernandes
Shakespeare showed us the value and meaning of things and how they can change so suddenly with the exclamation from the play, King Richard the Third.
The Biggest Secret of Financial Literacy
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28 Mar 2018 by Tiago Fernandes
For more than 10 years people have spoken about the three key components of financial literacy: budgeting, saving and investing.
Dutch issuance increase continues in February
Europe | Products
24 Mar 2015 by Marc Wolterink
Six tranche products worth an estimated €49m were added to SRP’s Dutch database in February.