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How to use structured products to isolate alpha

12:46 | 24 Feb 2010 | By Drazen Jorgic

Multi-asset managers are using structured products to isolate alpha generation and eradicate beta in a bid to deliver absolute returns with minimal volatility.

Gilts: How structured products can exploit a spike in yields

09:47 | 17 Feb 2010 | By Drazen Jorgic

The end of quantitative easing is likely to prove a testing time for managers, but some investors believe structured products can be used effectively to benefit from a rise in gilt yields.

Managers look to benefit from volatility spike

10:57 | 11 Feb 2010 | By Drazen Jorgic

The recent rise in volatility has led to an increased interest in structured products by wealth managers.

Volatility fund which returned 430% in 2008 to launch into UK

07:00 | 15 Jan 2010 | By Drazen Jorgic

BNP Paribas is to launch its volatility strategy, which returned 430% in 2008, into the UK. 

SocGen unveils structured product range for income hungry

11:52 | 14 Jan 2010 | By Drazen Jorgic

French investment bank Societe Generale is targeting wealth managers with a new range of listed structured products which aim to generate yield enhancement of up to 30%.

Rothschild's structured guru takes a fresh look at risk

07:32 | 18 Dec 2009 | By Drazen Jorgic

Rothschild head of strategic advisory services Kieron Launder says managers should think about shifting risk in the portfolio

Managers disagree on whether to take Nomura counterparty risk

09:23 | 16 Dec 2009 | By Drazen Jorgic

Cautious wealth managers express worries about Nomura funding.

Former AAA-rated F&C manager launches structured products firm

10:31 | 14 Dec 2009 | By Danielle Levy

Former F&C High Income fund manager Stephen Dolbear has joined Monument Securities to launch a structured products boutique to create bespoke structured products for high net worth investors.

RBS offers to buy your Lehman-backed structured products

15:45 | 11 Dec 2009 | By Drazen Jorgic

Royal Bank of Scotland is offering to buy Lehman-backed structured products from private client wealth managers.

FSCS begins payments over Lehman-backed products

12:29 | 11 Dec 2009 | By Charlie Parker

The compensation body is to begin paying out money to those investors who received the promise of capital security from now collapsed Lehman-backed structured products.

Morgan Stanley launches structured products Oeic for offshore bonds

13:25 | 01 Dec 2009 | By Drazen Jorgic

Morgan Stanley launches its first structured OEIC for discretionary wealth managers.

Banks say 'buy listed structured products', should you?

08:33 | 01 Dec 2009 | By Drazen Jorgic

Investment banks are starting to push listed structured products onto the market but should wealth managers be paying attention?

Why you should consider a structured play on gold

09:25 | 24 Nov 2009 | By Drazen Jorgic

Wealth managers are looking to structured products to protect them from a potential bursting of the gold bubble

Ways structured products can avoid the new offshore tax regime

12:10 | 17 Nov 2009 | By Drazen Jorgic

Investment banks are devising ways to avoid structured products getting taxed as income under the new regulations.

Can structured products prevent loss-making at VCTs?

00:01 | 09 Nov 2009 | By Drazen Jorgic

Brewin Dolphin wins mandate to run first-ever VCT structured products portfolio.

FSA reveals advice failings over Lehman-backed structured products

12:03 | 27 Oct 2009 | By Daniel Grote

The FSA has referred three financial advice firms to its enforcement division after its review of Lehman-backed structured products revealed widespread failings on the advice given over the investments.

Wealth managers point to the best synthetic zeros on the market

09:00 | 21 Oct 2009 | By Drazen Jorgic

With features such as lock-ins and defined returns, synthetic zeros are proving attractive to wealth managers

Ford launches new bid to regain parts of Keydata

09:00 | 21 Oct 2009 | By Iain Martin

Stewart Ford plans to buy back parts of his former business, Keydata Investment Services. 

Flaws in NDFA and DRL marketing may have led to administration

18:10 | 14 Oct 2009 | By Daniel Grote

(Update) Flaws in NDF Administartion (NDFA) and Defined Returns (DRL) marketing literature for its Lehmans-backed structured products could have led to the providers being placed into adminsitration.

Can promise of protection lure cautious clients back into the market?

11:01 | 06 Oct 2009 | By Drazen Jorgic

Wealth managers are turning to 100% protected structured products to get clients back into the market where otherwise their cash would continue to sit on the sidelines.

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