13 Dec 2021
Expert view: Citi on managing autocall risk
The risk on autocallables may change in a different way than the risk on hedges as the market moves.
26 Oct 2021
NBC bolsters dividend investing as capital at risk displaces protection
The Canadian bank is expanding the pool of underlyings offered as its issuance of structured products returns to pre-pandemic levels.
18 Aug 2021
RCB: dividend companies allow for innovative payout
The Austrian structured products house is targeting high dividend-yielding companies via a partially protected certificate.
14 Jun 2021
Fidelity: there is growing demand for dividend, income oriented plays
The financial services corporation has increased its profile in the structured products industry as a provider of custom strategies to the indexed annuities market.
07 May 2021
View from the top: choice is critical to grow the market (Part 2)
In the second part of the interview, Eduardo Montero, partner and senior team member at Protean Capital, discusses the different types of structured funds, how the ELDeR fund compares to other similar structures and how the dividend crisis which was exacerbated by the hedging pressures around structured products in trading desks became an opportunity to buy dividends at a discount.
21 Aug 2020
Product analysis: Eurostoxx 50 beats US top benchmarks
The Eurostoxx 50 index constructed as a price return index offers a higher dividend yield than US total return indices at the expense of lower upside participation rates embedded in structured products.
22 Jun 2020
EQD losses highlight earning risks, issuers remain on track
The losses suffered by several banks active in global markets from their structured equity derivatives operations in Q1 2020 has highlighted ‘the vulnerability of these complex products to prolonged market dislocation’ despite better risk management, according to Fitch Ratings.
13 May 2020
Structured products in falling markets – issuer perspective
FVC’s managing director Tim Mortimer continues to examine the effect of stock market falls in 2020 on structured products markets.
05 May 2020
Hedging structured products during the corona crisis: where did it go wrong?
Sharp declines in value across asset classes triggered by the Covid-19-related turmoil have had an impact on structured products.