Moreover, as investors chase stock returns, they are dumping fixed-income products, which will likely put pressure on interest rates.
With rates limbo-low there are a lot of advisors pitching fancier fixed-income products.
Life insurers' biggest-selling product of the late 1980s was annuities offering fixed rates much higher than could be obtained from other fixed-income products.
In recent years, Ambac, MBIA and others have ventured into insuring credit derivatives and other relatively newfangled fixed-income products invented by and peddled by Wall Street.
In fixed-income products, there are the over-the-counter trading venues.
In recent years, Ambac, MBIA (nyse: MBE - news - people ) and others have ventured into insuring credit derivatives and other relatively newfangled fixed-income products invented by and peddled by Wall Street.
Chief Executive Charles Li is refocusing HKEx to take advantage of expectations that China will become a net exporter of capital as currency restrictions are relaxed, with growing commodities and fixed-income products to diversify away from low-margin cash equities.
Ryan Barnes has over 10 years experience in portfolio management and investment research, covering equities, fixed income and derivative products.
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The firm prides itself on a low-profile image catering to institutional clients, with a strength in fixed-income and structured products but expanding expertise in equities.
Since 2008 when securitised products went through the floor, fixed income operations are investment banks are looking weak, he added.
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The problems are especially acute in the fixed-income department of the investment bank, where debt products are issued and traded.
Harvard and Yale in particular expanded their endowments' investments beyond the traditional bounds of fixed-income and equities and into exotic financial instruments like derivatives, hedge funds and leveraged investment products.
The asset management business earns money by offering customers a wide range of investment products so that customers can invest their money in the market (equity, fixed income, alternative investment etc.) and product that best matches their investment goals.
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