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With its mix of proprietary arbitrage trading strategies and its client-focused products, our Global Equity Derivatives business (GED) offers creative equity-based derivatives products to major corporations, institutional clients and retail investors. From offices in New York, Toronto and London, GED delivers an array of high-value products to clients worldwide. For high net-worth and retail clients GED offers asset protection, yield enhancement and personalized equity-linked investment strategies. For corporate clients GED provides structured financing, leverage, hedging, stock repurchase programs and benefit plan enhancements. For institutional investors, GED offers leverage, exposure to optionality and volatlity, and strategic structured investments.   GED has achieved a strong presence in the Equity Derivatives market and has built a global service franchise by combining our ability to draw on the resources and the organizational depth of the Royal Bank of Canada (including its market, research, legal, tax and accounting professionals) with the Bank's AA rated balance sheet. GED maximizes these synergies to provide innovative and competitve products and service.

News and Updates

June 10th, 2003 - Laurence Kaplan represents the Global Equity Derivatives group on a panel of market professionals and presents to the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) on the topic of "Investment Strategy: Structured Products and their Implementation". January 21st, 2003 - RBC Capital Markets bolsters service to US & Latin American high net worth and retail clients with addition of Laurence Kaplan.

Highlights

Tombstones: Retail Notes: RBC Principal Protected Gold Share Linked Notes, Series 1, due September 15, 2006. Tombstones: Retail Notes: RBC Principal Protected Dow Jones Industrial Average Linked Notes, Series 2 due August 30, 2005 (RY.V  TSE). Tombstones: Retail Notes: BDC Principal Protected S&P 500 Index Linked Note, Series 3 due August 2, 2007 (BDB.S  TSE). Tombstones: Retail Notes: RBC Principal Protected S&P 500 Index Linked Notes, Series 4 due December 14, 2006. Tombstones: EICDS: RBC Centura Bank Equity-Indexed Certificates of Deposit, No. 1, linked to the S&P 500 and maturing on May 23, 2008.