SRP to announce awards

SRP will announce tomorrow the European SRP Euromoney Structured Retail Products ranking and awards, a new joint venture between www.StructuredRetailProducts.com and Euromoney Magazine.

The SRP Awards is the first in a planned series of comprehensive quantitative and qualitative studies of the structured retail products market. The awards will be divided in two categories including the best manufacturing awards and the best distributor awards.

The manufacturing category will be based on a survey designed to understand investment banks' market share by apportioning distributors' market share to the various investment banks that hedge the products. The survey was conducted over three weeks in June 2011 and represents the previous twelve months' activity.  All voting was carried out electronically via a secure, dedicated data collection website.  All answers were subsequently vetted and verified by Euromoney and www.StructuredRetailProducts.com for authenticity. Nearly 400 valid respondents were polled across Europe representing over 100 billion in volume.

The best distributor awards, on the other hand, will be based on the 19 European structured products databases compiled by www.StructuredRetailProducts.com (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and UK). Sales and performance information were extracted from the data continuously gathered by the research team of www.StructuredRetailProducts.com.