Financial derivatives, Exotic options and Structured products
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The 2024 Outlook on Korean Autocallables and the HSCEI $5 Billion Digital: A Deep Dive
The Rising Tide of South Korea's Structured Products Market In the heart of Asia's financial innovation, South Korea stands out as a colossal market for structured products. Among these,...
BAYER SCRAPS ITS DIVIDENDโฆ BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.
The veteran Exotic traders will remember Citibank scrapping its dividend in 2008. They will also remember Telefonica doing the same in 2012. In 2024 it is Bayerโs turn to scrap its dividend. Nothing...
HSCEI TV : How Structured Products Distort Volatilities
In the world of structured products, and as mentionned in a previous post, 2024 will be an extraordinary year in South Korea as 74% of the inventory (of $15billion) of Worst-of Index Autocallables...
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2024 Judgement year for Korean Autocalls and the $5billion HSCEI digital.
South Korea is an extremely large market for structured products. A favourite product is the autocall on the worst of...
South-Korean retail investors are losing money on Autocallables
... a reminder that potential risks can become a reality. According toย The Korea Times, South Korea's Financial...
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Is accumulating post-nominal letters a sign of a competence? or a promise for future underperformance ? Regarding...
Roche…. getting closer to the cliff edge
The Q3 results of Roche disappointed the market. At 11:00am the spot is down 4.70%... The stock is now down 19% YTD...
Structured Products = Alternative Investments ?
Asset managers tend to classify structured products as โalternativesโ. That is rather a classification by default than...
Is Optimising Structured Products Really Optimal ?
Banks and independent software companies offer optimisers / optimizers for structured products It is quite standard...
Structured Product Blues
Yield enhancement products have been the market favourite for years The most actively traded retail structured...
What To Expect From VIX1D, The New One-Day VIX?
This week, another VIX was launched by CBOE: the VIX1D. it is meant to measure the 1-day volatility of...
MOVE vs VIX Ratio: Is That A Relevant Metrics ?
The Move/VIX Ratio is now very fashionable Recently, graphs comparing the MOVE Index to the VIX Index have flourished...
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Eric Barthe
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years of experience in the field of derivatives and structured products.