Tag: Derivatives
Marex: three months, 100 products, US$700m and counting
International | Industry
04 Nov 2019 by Pablo Conde
Marex Financial launched earlier this summer as the first non-bank issuer to enter the structured products market. SRP caught up with chief executive Nilesh Jethwa (pictured) to talk about the firm’s progress during its first months of activities, the challenges of being a new entrant and the plans going forward.
Barclays most prolific issuer in US in Q2
International | Industry
21 Aug 2019 by SRP News
The UK bank delivered a ‘resilient’ second quarter of 2019 with good performance coming from the corporate & Investment bank, according to CEO Jes Staley (pictured), while in the USA – its main structured products market – sales volumes were at their highest levels in nine years.
Leonteq: smart derivatives hedging platform to be operational by mid-2020
International | Industry
31 Jul 2019 by SRP News
The Swiss specialist structured product provider made ‘good progress’ with its key strategic initiatives in 1H2019 and is on track towards becoming a ‘globally renowned platform for structured investment solutions’, said chief executive officer Lukas Ruflin (pictured).
Bank of America doubles structured products issuance in Q2
North America | Industry
18 Jul 2019 by SRP News
The bank posts a positive operating leverage for the 18th consecutive quarter as it doubles its issuance of structured products in the USA.
Lowering the cost of hedging to decrease open interest
Asia Pacific | Industry
07 Jul 2019 by Jihye Hwang
The proprietary trading firm and market maker for exchange-listed products expects a ‘few other’ derivatives exchanges in Asia to offer portfolio compression services ‘in the near future’
Product Snapshot: French distributor deploys fund with derivatives overlay
Europe | Products
13 Mar 2019 by Nikolay Nikolov
DS Investment Solutions is offering protected equity exposure via systematic hedging strategies
Correlation – the new asset class for market-linked products
| Expert View
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.
