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The Americas derivatives community came together in New York to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry
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Last year saw longevity hedging by U.K. pension plans move from theory to practice. Previously, use of such contracts to transfer longevity risk was limited primarily to life insurance companies seeking protection on their annuity books. However, in June 2009 the U.K. engineering group Babcock International PLC, confirmed that the trustees of one of their defined benefit pension plans had entered into a 50-year longevity trade, reportedly with Credit Suisse, with a notional value of GBP500 million (this was to be the first of three trades completed by pension plans within the Babcock group in 2009).
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Regulatory supervisors in Europe and the U.S. should resist the extensive lobbying of banks when trying to overhaul the over-the-counter derivatives market, according to Fraser Cowie, executive director of global business development for NYSE Liffe.
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Dealers are trashing trade union claims they are making big bucks off munis entering floating-to-fixed interest rate swaps. -
Wells Fargo Securities has started selling an enhanced growth note linked to the S&P Global Clean Energy Index, with leveraged upside and a buffered downside.
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A key task this year for China’s National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors is the development of better credit risk management tools, said Guanghua Feng, deputy secretary of NAFMII, in a keynote address at Euromoney Seminars’ 7th Annual China Derivatives Summit in Beijing on Thursday.
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Only around 80 institutions have signed up to the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors’ master agreement since its launch last March (DW, 3/18/09).
