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Inflation and structured products

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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Coping with market corrections

As has been widely reported in the financial press recently most major markets have experienced a significant correction from the...
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Playing the sharkfin

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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Value at risk - watching the tail

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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Barriers in structured products

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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Speeding along with Tesla

Tesla Inc is the sixth largest company in the world by market capitalisation (Source: Refinitiv as at 17 Nov 2021). Of the top ten...
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The Evergrande story

The Chinese property development company Evergrande has been frequently in the financial press during most of 2021. Since it is also...
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Examining cryptocurrencies

The structured product universe has a vast range of underlying assets to which products are linked. Just as with funds and ETFs, when...
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Market neutral strategies

Within the funds world there are many interesting strategies that are used by managers to provide diversification or outperformance...
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Call overwriting

Call overwriting strategies have always occupied an interesting niche position straddling the worlds of structured products and...
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