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The Royal Bank of Scotland in Japan is marketing six-month yen-denominated Nikkei 225 contingent payer swaptions to hedge fund investors as a hedge against a selloff in Japanese government bonds and equity. -
Some players are positioning for a decline in volatility using Eurostoxx 50 and Vstoxx option strategies in the wake of the volatility spike on Monday and Tuesday.
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Emerging markets have endured a two-pronged assault in recent weeks. Concerns about quantitative easing tapering have driven U.S. Treasury yields higher and triggered outflows from EM funds, while fears that China could struggle to engineer a soft landing for its economy have made matters worse for countries dependent on Chinese demand.
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Hedge Fund CQS has tapped Greg Sadler, a financials trader in credit at Barclays in London, as a portfolio manager.
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Trudy Lee, managing director and head of fixed income markets at Credit Agricole in Singapore, has left the firm.
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Investors should look at using a short October 2013, March 2014 call calendar ratio strategy referencing the Nikkei 225 to take advantage of a potential inversion of the index’s volatility term structure, after it flattened earlier this week following flows in the short-end volatility.
