Single shares drive Japanese uridashi market

The Japanese market has seen a 16% year-on-year increase in sales of single share structured products compared to 2012, following the sustained equity rally since the introduction of Abenomics. According to SRP data, 250 single share-linked products have been marketed so far this year in the uridashi market, surpassing the 215 products registered in the same category for the whole of 2012. The sales volumes linked to single shares have also increased by 37.8% to $3.12bn from last year. Hitoshi