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Investment banks are rushing to offer systematic payoffs and smart underlyings as structured notes, partly in response to investors’ growing mistrust of more complex products. But is replicating hedge fund strategies in note form as simple as they are trying to make out?
Euromoney May 2008
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The research efforts of banks is becoming increasingly important when it comes to developing new, competitive structured notes that will garner investor interest.
Euromoney May 2008
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Euromoney May 2008
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Structured note sellers had high hopes that property-linked pay-offs would be a big revenue generator in the UK. However, recent real estate upheavals have cast a dark cloud over the market.
Euromoney March 2008
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Euromoney March 2008
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High-net-worth investors are keen to use structured notes to profit from volatility in the equity market, and to take advantage of opportunities elsewhere. John Ferry looks at what is on offer.
Euromoney January 2008
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Many structured notes come with a promise that at maturity investors would at least get their initial investment back. But the credit crisis combined with a dramatic increase in equity market volatility has presented structured note sellers with a number of challenges when it comes to offering principal protection.
Euromoney January 2008
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New regulations are always unpopular with bankers struggling to keep on top of increasing numbers of oversight and compliance rules. The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) is proving particularly unpopular with those working in the equity-linked structured note market, who say it is simplistic in its approach to derivatives-based investments.
Euromoney December 2007
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The rapid uptake of exchange-traded structured notes in the US has got the country’s mutual fund industry on the offensive. Its trade association is lobbying Congress to change the tax laws to make the notes less attractive. But the structured products industry is fighting back. John Ferry reports.
Euromoney December 2007
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In its letter to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) argues that ETNs provide investment opportunities similar to those provided by many mutual funds.
Euromoney December 2007