170 results

Rotator strategies

Mainstream benchmark indices tend to be made up of underlyings within a single asset class such as equities, bonds, FX or commodities....
More

The return of capital protected products

Across all major currencies there has been a sharp increase in interest rates in 2022. This has mostly been caused by inflationary...
More

Index or Basket?

Many retail structured products are linked to a single equity index for direct exposure to a country, region or sector. Products...
More

Choosing investment maturity

Structured products generally have a fixed maturity and the choice of the length of the investment when selecting a structured product...
More

Market timing with the Lookback

The lookback construction is one of the longest standing concepts in structured products. It has a rich history and is still in use...
More

UK structured product issuance in 2022

The UK Structured product market has shown strong growth in the last two years as world economies and stock markets have recovered from...
More

Investing in Twitter

The US social media giant Twitter Inc is a high profile, volatile and at times rewarding stock which has significant interest and...
More

Stock decrement indices

An equity decrement index is a version of an index or stock where the dividend stream is replaced with a fixed dividend amount which...
More

US regulator reconsiders complexity

In March 2022 US regulatory body FINRA published a notice (reference 22-08) on complex products. This was the first major...
More

US market update from StructrPro

The combined database and analytics service StructPro (a joint venture between SRP and FVC) is now fully live and producing...
More