Selected insights

Below are thought leadership pieces focused on structured products. These accounts provide insights from experts who have played a pivotal role in the field.

South Africa - It’s all about preserving your capital

When I first started to become familiar with the South African market, one of my first questions was why so much investment in foreign currencies.

06 Dec 2018 by Tiago Fernandes

Prop Indices – the next bargain or a flop?

When hard times befall structures, there is always a smart trader that finds a way to adapt and come up with a new solution within structured products.

25 Oct 2018 by Tiago Fernandes

Is it August 2015 all over again?

For those who work in structured products and derivatives in 2015, August 3 was not a good day.

26 Sep 2018 by Tiago Fernandes

Stop lying to yourself: Capital protection is an insurance!

Much has been said about the structured product industry and the self-inflicted wounds we committed in the past

07 Aug 2018 by Tiago Fernandes

Is this the end of Dual Currency Deposits?

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

13 Jul 2018 by Tiago Fernandes

Correlation – the new asset class for market-linked products

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.

08 Jun 2018 by Tiago Fernandes

My Kingdom for an Autocall!

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.

20 Apr 2018 by Tiago Fernandes

The Biggest Secret of Financial Literacy

For more than 10 years people have spoken about the three key components of financial literacy: budgeting, saving and investing.

28 Mar 2018 by Tiago Fernandes

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