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More About This Title How to Invest in Structured Products - A Guide for Investors and Asset Managers
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Key features include:
- A comprehensive list of factors an investor needs to take into consideration before investing. This makes it a great help to any buyer of structured products;
- Unbiased advice on product investments across several asset classes: equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodities;
- Guidance on how to implement structured products in a portfolio context;
- A comprehensive questionnaire that will help investors to define their own investment preferences, allowing for a greater precision when facing investment decisions;
- An original approach determining the typical distribution of returns for major product types, essential for product classification and optimal portfolio implementation purposes;
- Written in a fresh, clear and understandable style, with many figures illustrating the products and very little mathematics.
This book will enable you to better comprehend the use of structured products in everyday banking, quickly analyzing a product, assessing which of your clients it suits, and recognizing its major pitfalls. You will be able to see the added value versus the cost of a product and if the payoff is compatible with the market expectations.
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He is married with two children, and fluent in French, German and English. Structured products have been his passion for the last 12 years.
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Foreword.
Acknowledgements.
Goal of this book.
Who should be interested.
Content summary.
Part I Individual Structured Products.
1 Introduction.
2 Generalities About Structured Products.
2.1 A Definition by Analogy.
2.2 Buyers, Sellers and Reasons for Investing in Structured Products.
2.3 Reading a Payoff Diagram.
2.4 Reading a Payoff Formula.
2.5 Reading a Term-Sheet.
3 The Categories of Structured Products.
3.1 Capital Guaranteed Products.
3.2 Yield Enhancement.
3.3 Participation.
4 Behavior of Structured Products During their Lifetime.
4.1 Main Valuation and Risk Measures.
4.2 Capital Guarantee.
4.3 Yield Enhancement.
4.4 Participation Products.
4.5 Other Participation Products.
5 Common Special Features of Structured Products.
5.1 Quanto Options.
5.2 Barrier Options.
5.3 Autocall and Callable Options.
5.4 Rolling Products and Products Without Fixed Maturity.
5.5 Conditional and Accumulating Coupons.
6 Functionality Options of Structured Products.
6.1 Physical or Cash Delivery with Equity-Based Products.
6.2 Clean Price and Dirty Price.
6.3 Lending Values.
6.4 Issue Minimum/Maximum Size and Liquidity.
6.5 Funding Rates and Counterparty/Credit Risk.
7 Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income and Commodity Products.
7.1 FX-Based Structures.
7.2 Fixed Income Structures.
7.3 Commodity Structures.
8 Recent Developments.
8.1 Customized Index Products.
8.2 Actively Managed Certificates.
8.3 Electronic Trading Platforms.
Part II Structured Products in a Portfolio Context.
9 Introduction to Part II.
10 Classical Theory and Structured Products.
10.1 Distribution of Returns Shapes.
10.2 Classical Portfolio Management Theories.
10.3 Classical Theory and Structured Products.
10.4 Conclusion.
11 Structured Solution Proposal.
11.1 Preferred Distribution of Return Investment Process.
11.2 Distribution Classes: The Return Distribution Cube.
11.3 An Investor’s Utility (Value) Curve.
11.4 Questionnaire.
12 Return Distributions of Structured Products.
12.1 Procedure and Data.
12.2 Capital Guaranteed Products.
12.3 Yield Enhancement Products.
12.4 Participation Products.
12.5 Conclusion: Product Classification.
13 Structured Portfolio Construction.
13.1 Portfolio Construction Process.
13.2 Constructing a Structured Product Portfolio in Theory.
13.3 Preferred Return Distribution Process Versus Classic Portfolio Management.
13.4 Investor Portfolios.
14 Final Words.
Appendix A: Glossary of Terms.
Appendix B: Distribution of Returns: An Intuitive Explanation.
Appendix C: Questionnaire.
Appendix D: List of Figures.
Appendix E: List of Tables.
Appendix F: Index Information.
Appendix G: Issuer and Product-Related Websites.
Bibliography.
Index.
