Autocallables Part IV: Issuers' Day-1 Value Mischief
(Mar 2024)
By Craig McCann and
Mike Yan
Earlier this week we posted about the $122 billion in autocallable structured products sold in the past 4 years, mostly issued by UBS, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. You can read that post here.
We illustrated features of autocallables with reference to the five notes linked to the stock price of Lucid issued by Credit Suisse and Citigroup in a post available here and pointed out a particularly poorly timed issuance by Citigroup linked...
2024 Brokerage Firm Risk Rankings
(Feb 2024)
By Craig McCann, Chuan Qin and Mike Yan
We previously published two papers ranking brokerage firms based on the complaint history associated with their current brokers and the complaints associated with brokers who they employed
at the time of the conduct being complained about, wherever those brokers are currently employed.
We recently updated our analysis of complaints against brokerage firms and found that our earlier results were extremely useful for identifying brokerage firms likely...
