This year’s expected surge in IPOs and M&A deals should drive a proliferation of strategic equity derivative transactions, ...

Craig Douglas, Stanley Black & Decker’s treasurer, is renowned for his financial acumen. Whether it was a novel floating-rate convertible bond in 2007, the reopening of the bond market at the height ...

Preferred equity investing is on the rise amid a search for yield and a fall in the number of high-quality assets coming to market. Here we explore the growing appeal of preferred equity instruments, ...

Pitching a company when representing a bulge-bracket firm with an established track record and leading league table position is one thing, but simply getting through the door when one has none of ...

Structured funds offer a blend of equity and fixed-income products, ensuring both capital protection and appreciation.

Our firm, FP Transitions, keeps a database on thousands of advisory firms, looking at data such as valuations. Our recent look into this data revealed a powerful truth: The most valuable firms are ...

Barx (Barclays automated real-time execution) clients can now trade equity structured notes online as well as access secondary market prices, trade ideas and research, says Barclays Capital. “As the ...

"More people are paying attention to credit risk than before, so it is true that the subset of investors that are being particularly prudent has increased," says Alberto Cherubini, head of exotic ...

Analysis: For some time now, financial punters have prescribed passive investment as the low-cost panacea for investors bloodied by years of underwhelming active management. S&P data indicates that ...