Structured Products : A Complete Toolkit to Face Changing Financial Markets

With the advent of structured products, institutional investors are required both to have a strong technical knowledge, yet also the flair to move swiftly on their instincts. This book explains the nature of the principal products. By means of a brief chapter on the basic principles and fundamental rules, this book analyses twenty distinct structures within fixed income and variable income. This book explains in a practical manner for institutional investors the main structured products that have been developed over the past decade. This is achieved by studying in detail the risks, valuation and key elements of each structured product in turn. The basic principles and underlying philosophy behind the concept are explained in order to give investors a thorough understanding of each product. The book features details on the following: Basic aspects of structured products Fundamental aspects used to carry out instrument assessment and risk measurement Equity indexed structures Fixed income structures Ten golden rules of structured products.