In the past 10 to 15 years, the Dutch structured products market has gone from a market driven by traditional structured products, from large local banks such as ABN Amro, ING, Rabobank and Van Lanschot, to one that is dominated by turbos from a host of foreign (and some Dutch) issuers, of which Vontobel was the latest to enter the leverage products space.
Who better to ask about the transition of the Dutch market than Jean-Paul van Oudheusden (pictured) , an industry veteran and one of the driving forces behind the introduction of the turbo in The Netherlands by ABN Amro in 2004. Van Oudheusden, who recently joined Bufferfund – the open-ended investment fund that solely invest in structured products – spoke to SRP about the lack of room to manoeuvre for investment advisers, the fact that there is little education provided by the dist
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