The Joint Associations Committee on Retail Structured Products is pleased to announce it is reaffirming the set of principles for managing the provider-distributor relationship (PD Principles) in retail structured products and the principles for managing the distributor-individual investor relationship (DI Principles), originally published in July 2007 and July 2008 respectively. The Principles were... 

S&P index goes long on crude oil and Brent futures The S&P 500 Oil Hedged Index replicates the returns of an investment strategy that is long the S&P 500 and hedged against changes in the US dollar as measured by oil pricesStandard & Poor’s (S&P) has launched the S&P 500 Oil Hedged index, aimed at investors seeking alternative methods to hedge against inflationary risks... 

On March 9, 2010, Numerix hosted a webinar on the state of the global structured products with Keith Styrcula, Chairman of the Structured Products Association, and Joe Burris, Head of Americas – StructuredRetailProducts.com. The discussion revealed some interesting trends for the future of the industry: Sales: Invested capital in structured products was flat in 2009, totaling roughly $1.6 tn...