Structured Products Are Dorsum Baby!
Back inwards the solar daytime (2005 - 2008) structured products were all the rage inwards many areas of finance in addition to i nosotros posted on quite a few times was the structured carbon trading biz.
Mainly because the obviously vanilla instruments simply weren't opaque—read profitable for the marketeers—enough at that spot was some actually creative packages existence seat together.
Top-tick of those halcyon days tin hold upward pinpointed equally Dec 3-15, 2007 when, of the 4483 Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) delegates to the U.N. climate conference inwards Bali, the largest unmarried contingent was from the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), 336 rigid in addition to fully 7.5% of all the accredited delegates. (a sum of 10,000 attendees flew inwards from roughly the earth becauseBali climate)
Good times.
Anyway, that stroll downwards Memory Lane was triggered past times a slice Dan McCrum wrote concluding week.
From FT Alphaville:
RBC, through the FANG barrier
Mainly because the obviously vanilla instruments simply weren't opaque—read profitable for the marketeers—enough at that spot was some actually creative packages existence seat together.
Top-tick of those halcyon days tin hold upward pinpointed equally Dec 3-15, 2007 when, of the 4483 Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) delegates to the U.N. climate conference inwards Bali, the largest unmarried contingent was from the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), 336 rigid in addition to fully 7.5% of all the accredited delegates. (a sum of 10,000 attendees flew inwards from roughly the earth because
Good times.
Anyway, that stroll downwards Memory Lane was triggered past times a slice Dan McCrum wrote concluding week.
From FT Alphaville:
RBC, through the FANG barrier
Our attending is drawn to a peculiar corner of fiscal markets where investors tin earn an annual income of to a greater extent than than 10 per cent a year. How?
The response is past times lending coin to Royal Bank of Canada, alongside a few additional side bets.
Take for event the "Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos"
When you lot convey i complex-chaotic system, tell an ag or liberate energy derivatives marketplace overlaid on some other complex-chaotic system, say, for example, weather; the mightiness to foretell the progression from the initial status of one, or ameliorate nevertheless both, systems would convey some pecuniary advantage*
Solar: Leveraged Lease Structured Financing" which had i of our earliest mentions of snowball notes, directly a squeamish bookend to Mr. McCrum's slice that got this all started:
And from FT Alphaville, the intersection of finance in addition to unreality:Chemical Finance? Snowball NotesUs innocent types on FT Alphaville idea a snowball was a slightly naff cocktail, an Advocaat-based drinkable from the 70s. Either that, or a lilliputian white pill popped occasionally on a Sabbatum night....MORE
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