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Over-the-counter buy-write strategies, in which investors buy equity indices and sell covered calls on the single stocks, have become increasingly popular in the U.S.
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The price of protection on Portugal Telecom jumped nearly 200% last week after a hostile bid from smaller Portuguese telecom firm Sonae.
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Chris Ricciardi, the global head of structured credit products at Merrill Lynch, has left the firm.
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Seneca Capital Management, a San Francisco manager best known for its bond capabilities, is considering launching a synthetic collateralized debt obligation this year.
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Domestic houses in Taiwan have shut the tap on the warrants market in protest to an outstanding tax on premiums.
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Some credit houses are holding off adding third-party managers to synthetic collateralized debt obligations referencing asset-backed securities because there is not enough juice in the underlying assets to make the play economically viable.
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In the early days of synthetic collateralized debt obligations, most deals were static.
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London-based asset manager Cairn Capital and UBS have disclosed the launch of a managed, leveraged, super senior collateralized debt obligation tranche late last year.
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Fund-wrapped and insurance-wrapped structured investments are leading the growth in U.S. structured products.
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ABN AMRO has picked up David Sarkis, a former senior equity derivatives trader at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, in a new role as head of volatility trading for Asia, according to Hui Yuk Min, spokeswoman.
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ABN AMRO is gearing up to offer correlation swaps on baskets of single stocks.
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Nearly 2,500 people attended the Information Management Network's 11th annual Asset-Backed Securities West conference last week at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Ariz.