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ISIS Asset Management is favoring high-yield in its £170 million Strategic Bond Fund.
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The Kingdom of Spain outshone its better rated peers this week, by pricing a Eu5bn 10 year syndicated government bond through France, flat to Finland and just 8bp over Germany.
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Robert "Bo" Collins, who recently resigned as president of the NYMEX, has reportedly emerged as the front runner to head the proposed energy trading joint venture between TXU and Credit Suisse First Boston.
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The first weather-linked contract in Taiwan hit the market late last month, when the Central Insurance Co. pipped the Inter-American Development Bank to the finishing post with a precipitation-linked contract. -
Henderson Global Investors is creating a department to structure tailored equity and credit products, in response to increasing demand for total rather than benchmarked returns.
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Its human nature not to accept responsibility for mistakes, according to Joe Rizzi, head of structured products at ABN AMRO's structured risk interface group in Amsterdam, who argues that if banks regularly attribute bad trades to bad luck they will not learn from their mistakes.
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IFX Markets is launching two products in its contracts for difference range, one on Asian stocks and another for retail investors.
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The absence of many of the major investment banks from the weather derivatives market and the low risk-appetite of some of the participants is keeping the market from fulfilling its potential, according to WRMA delegates and speakers.
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Merrill Lynch has started offering credit derivatives with range accrual payouts.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland has hired Ben Gulliver, a credit trader at Caxton Europe, and Karthik Paramasivan, covered bonds trader at Goldman Sachs in London, as credit flow traders in London.
