Derivs - Equity
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Malaysian bank Permodalan Nasional Bhd is taking a MYR3 billion (USD917 million) structured product fund to Malaysian private banking clients and institutions.
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Hedge funds that have shied away from equity derivatives in recent weeks are now returning--but demanding highly liquid vanilla trades.
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Investors in the Australian equity warrants market have moved out of day trading—the practice of holding warrants only during the day rather than over night.
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JPMorgan is touting crash puts and equity default swaps as ways for investors to take equity risk but minimize the downside.
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With volatility spiking in recent days, twitchy investors are turning to variance swaps trades on the main indices and large-cap single names.
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Bank of America has appointed Alex Caramella as a managing director in corporate equity derivatives marketing in London.
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Barclays Capital this morning unveiled an index that allows users to make inflation plays.
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Hedge funds are returning to the equity markets after a quiet few months, with an uptick of interest in vanilla option-based products.
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Macquarie will push its infrastructure structured products globally, on the back of a new index formed by the firm’s Hong Kong office. -
U.K. investment shop Arc Capital & Income is marketing a structured note linked to the FTSE 100 and Standard & Poor’s 500 indices.
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Citigroup has launched a quantitative index that balances investments between different countries.
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Barclays Capital has launched its first mutual fund-linked offering in the U.S.—and the firm says that more are on the way
