Germany Market Review - May 2018

Products pegged to a single share underlying monopolised the German market for structured products in May with 300 products in subscription, over three times more than those linked to a single index, according to the SRP database. “In the case of investment products, there has been a clear shift in preference for equities as an underlying over the past few months,” said Lars Brandau, managing director of the Deutscher Derivate Verband (DDV). “They have outperformed indices as the dominant under