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Flip-flop products

The recent rise in interest rates has fundamentally changed the retail structured products market. The main effect that has been seen...
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Commoditising volatility with the VIX family

Structurers and traders at investment banks involved in structured products are constantly assessing pricing and risk management as...
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Strategy and custom indices

The use of strategy and custom indices has had a long and rich history within retail structured products markets for many years....
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Enhancing structured product analysis

The US structured product market has seen very strong growth in recent years. This is primarily a result of compelling defined risk...
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Opportunities in volatility

In the early stages of the COVID pandemic in 2020 there was significant economic turmoil and a stockmarket crash. In the three years...
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Derivative hedging techniques examined

When a structured product is brought to market it needs an investment bank to hedge it and to pay out the contracted returns to the...
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The SEC ramps up conduct expectations for Broker-Dealers

In April 2023 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a Staff Bulletin entitled “Standards of Conduct for...
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Analysing index linked products with StructrPro

The StructrPro structured product and lifecycle service provides deep analysis on the US structured products market. It is jointly run...
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Deep Barriers

Structured products traditionally divide into capital protected and capital at risk offerings. The key difference between these two...
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Leveraged and inverse indices

The universe of underlyings available to institutional and retail investors is ever growing. This has been driven by greater market...
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