The hedging process is one of the most important aspects of creating structured products. One of the key differences between...
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The US structured product market has grown very strongly over the last few years. Sales volumes, number of products and the universe...
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The structured products market covers a broad spectrum of product types and asset classes. Market participants have regularly created...
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The UK structured product market has been staunchly loyal to the FTSE-100 as its most common underlying for many years. Many markets...
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Equity linked products remain dominant in most structured products markets around the world. This is because equities are considered...
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Inflationary pressures dominated the world economy in the 1970s. This was caused primarily by the sudden rise in oil prices and global...
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As has been widely reported in the financial press recently most major markets have experienced a significant correction from the...
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The “sharkfin” payoff its distinctive by its shape and is defined as a product which pays a positive performance linked return as long...
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The risk management concept of Value-at-Risk (VaR) is a well-known and accepted framework which has importance in all aspects of...
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The use of barriers in structured products is very common and has been established as the main way of reducing risk. Barriers can be...
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