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Large insurance companies are buying index options or variance swaps with two-year maturities on the Nikkei 225 and TOPiX against the S&P 500 or Eurostoxx 50 as a relative value trade. -
CNY swaps were better bid across most of the curve on Monday on the back of a firm Chinese PMI report and concerns about liquidity going into the quarter-end, writes Deirdre Yeung of Total Derivatives.
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US investors are pushing out maturities on their structured products and notes, extending the transactions beyond four-to-six years in a bid to gain better yields.
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Volumes of package transactions in the US, or derivatives with more than one leg, stabilized Thursday after a brief decline at the start of the week, as rules governing their mandatory execution over swap execution facilities came into effect on Monday.
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Pension funds are entering into total return swaps on the Eurostoxx 50 to collect carry, driven by low volatility in other classes and the knock-on effect of the European Central Bank’s recent announcement regarding its liquidity programme. The funds are buying short term and selling long term TRS on the underlying in an effort to collect positive carry and roll-down.
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Laurent Ichard, ex-co-head of equities distribution at JPMorgan in London, has joined Citigroup as head of pan-Asia equity derivative flow sales in Hong Kong.
