Ryan Rogowski, executive member of the UK Structured Products Association, discusses why structured products are a good hedging solution
What’s that in the sky? A plane? A superhero? No it’s a swarm of black swans. The dotcom crash, the credit crunch and once unimaginable sovereigns teetering on the edge of default, these so called irregular tail events seem to occur with an unpleasant regularity. While global markets have rallied in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse, the global economic recovery still seems fragile at best. Once the preserve of risk managers and esoteric traders in banks, the concept of hedging has now entered the lexicon of the average investor. But what is hedging? And how do you implement...
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