David Stevenson: A closer look at structured products

Monday 28 September, 2009: This weekend’s column discussed various listed structured products available. Here I expand on the Morgan Stanley product.

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David Stevenson: Trading at a discount

Thursday 24 September, 2009: I keep receiving interesting notes on a column I wrote a few months ago on an alternative hedge fund Psource, which lends money to high growth firms in the US.

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David Stevenson: Similarities between China and Japan

Tuesday 22 September, 2009: The highly individualistic research team at SG suffered a small blow earlier on in the summer when James Montier joined the asset allocation committee of fund manager GMO as strategist.

David Stevenson: Back on T2

Monday 21 September, 2009: OK so we’re back on T2 again and trying to draw all the threads together. That $250m of debt in the CLO vehicle is cheap – it costs just 75 basis points above LIBOR overall.

David Stevenson: The risks of T2

Wednesday 16 September, 2009: We’re back on the subject of T2 again today, this time running through the risks

David Stevenson: T2 Income fund

Tuesday 15 September, 2009: OK in my column on Saturday I talk about the T2 Income fund – over the next two days I’m going to spell out some of the risks and potential for this relatively complicated little fund.