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Protecting the Downside, while Participating in the Upside A couple of months ago in “Lifecycle investing” I, superficially touched, upon Zvi Bodie’s view that diversification is not the only way to reduce investment/market risk. In fact, according to him, it … Continue reading
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Structured Products III – Create Your Own Enhanced Index Product In Structured Product II- Good or Bad? It Depends on Your “View” we discussed how to compare products with different performance characteristics, by using your “view” of the probability of … Continue reading
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Structured Products II- Good or Bad? It Depends on Your “View”. An earlier blog provided an overview of Structured Products . As a specific structured product application consider an enhanced index product with six year maturity whose payback is 1.45x … Continue reading
Structured products: BMO Life Stage Retirement Income Portfolios Background In the January 24, 2011 Hot Off the Web blog I mentioned a new product from BMO, which I described as fitting into the category of products of expensive and opaque … Continue reading
Structured Products I In my September 30, 2007 Hot Off the Web, I mentioned John Authers of the Financial Times in “Structured vehicles may be way forward” discussing how, in the wake of the relatively poor recent performance of hedge … Continue reading
