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Sellside firms are seeing increased appetite for structured products with volatility target mechanisms as a way of providing a primary source of income for UK individuals during retirement. The spike in interest comes on the back of Chancellor George Osborne’s 2014 budget that set out greater investment flexibility for individuals at retirement from April 2015. -
BlackRock and Tradeweb Markets have co-created an electronic trading offering for the rates and derivatives markets.
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US Institutional Investors are increasingly turning to exchange-traded funds to gain exposure to a rapidly expanding range of asset classes, with a recent push from issuers into fixed income underlyings driving the trend.
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Nomura has hired Ronan Connolly, the ex-head of equities trading for EMEA at Citigroup in London, to the same role, also in London. Connolly is the latest senior hire by Nomura amid increased revenues in its equities business.
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Dorian Raimond, ex-head of index and options trading at BNP Paribas in London, is set to join Barclays in a similar role.
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Hedge funds and real money investors are increasingly buying out-of-the-money payer options on the iTraxx Main across May, June and July expiries, with strikes up to 150% OTM. Payer spreads in the iTraxx Main are also being actively traded by investors, while some hedge funds are looking at taking similar exposures through bearish risk reversals.
