Tag: Volatility
View from the top: the liquid alternative industry acts as a gateway to structured products
North America | Products
22 Sep 2021 by Lavanya Nair
The US investment manager specialised in delivering volatility-based solutions through actively managed option strategies believes automation will be integral to the evolution of structured products market.
Market neutral: playing vol and correlation
International | Products
01 Sep 2021 by Tim Mortimer - FVC
Within the funds world there are many interesting strategies used by managers to provide diversification or outperformance over the mainstream funds in the traditional asset classes.
Strukturinvest, BNP Paribas bank on tourism rebound
Europe | Products
23 Aug 2021 by Marc Wolterink
The Swedish structured products provider is using the pricing potential of a decrement index to profit from high volatility in the tourism sector.
UBS: investors understand there are better returns beyond standard benchmark
International | Features
16 Aug 2021 by Pablo Conde
In this series of articles, we look at how investors are reacting to volatility and inflation, and what trades are being developed by QIS teams to capitalise on market trends.
MerQube builds 'strong pipeline' as demand for risk control and define outcome remains
North America | Indices
22 Jul 2021 by Lavanya Nair
The US index specialist firm has seen the popularity of its index offering catapulting in the first half of 2021.
Autocalls: looking around for volatile underlyings
Europe | Features
22 Jul 2021 by Marc Wolterink
Since their Covid-induced collapse in March 2020, the financial markets have shown a consistent upward trend, which is reflected in the performance of shares and indices that are used as underlying for structured products.
T+1 settlement change challenges historic trading behaviour
North America | Technology
01 Jul 2021 by Noah Zuss, IFLR
Roadblocks to adoption are behavioural rather than systems and technology, and can be tackled by investing in post-trade process and risk management.
TrueMark eyes thematic expansion to bolster buffered ETFs
North America | Products
30 Jun 2021 by Lavanya Nair
The structured outcome exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider is swiftly approaching the one-year mark since launching its buffered product series and is now setting its sights on navigating complex asset classes to further incite investor demand.
Underlying issues: OCC v OTC
North America | Indices
23 Jun 2021 by SRP News
Cboe Global Markets and the VIX Index are a well-known duo, but the US exchange’s index services business has found its niche as a specialist provider in the domestic structured ETFs space.
