Product
Innovation,
January 2012
Legal & General IM and Source offer a new index for commodity investment
The fund, which tracks the LGIM Commodity Composite Index, is designed to offer high quality, diversified exposure to commodities in a UCITS-compliant ETF...
Pedagogy,
July 2011
Inflation linked bonds’ mechanism
Inflation linked bonds are bonds whose principal is linked to inflation which allows their holders to protected against inflation as opposed to traditional bonds.
Pedagogy,
January 2011
TARN on REVERSE CMS
A major U.S bank has recently issued Target Accrual Redemption Note (TARN) on reverse CMS (Constant Maturity Swap). This product pays a coupon indexed on a reverse, capped and floored CMS until the sum of coupon payments reach a target (...)
Pedagogy,
October 2009
« Catastrophe bonds » or CAT bonds
Insurance companies issue this type of bonds to cover the risks associated with "disastrous" events such as earthquakes, typhoons, storms and hurricanes...
Pedagogy,
November 2007
Credit Default Swaps (CDS).
Politicians have, in general, a very rough knowledge on financial products, especially credit derivatives. In some cases, this may be a gap. Indeed, the icelandic prime minister is now aware of it...
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Solactive and Equileap launch new gender equality index used as the underlying index for ETF issued by UBS