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Below are thought leadership pieces focused on structured products. These accounts provide insights from experts who have played a pivotal role in the field.

Impact of the recent market correction on structured products: an analysis

The current market turmoil and increased uncertainty are impacting how structured products are behaving, as financial engineering expert Eric Barthe explains.

24 Mar 2020 by Eric Barthe
Growing the French retail market for structured products

French distributors are betting on the open architecture approach and the capital protection profile of structured products to continue growing the retail market. SRP looks at the benefits of open architecture and profit-motivated retraction, which has long been part of the distribution of structured products in France.

09 Mar 2020 by Nikolay Nikolov
Leveraging indices for US structured products

US investors have a long history of using US equity indices as a vehicle to access equity exposure.

07 Jan 2020 by Tiago Fernandes
White Paper: The power of structured products correlation in a passive portfolio

When it comes to investing, most people who want to make money avoid taking too much risk. In response to this, economist Harry Markowitz developed the modern portfolio theory (MPT).

07 Nov 2019 by SRP News
Worst of strategies: the other side of the correlation coin

Many investment professionals are confused when they first encounter worst of (WO) structured product strategies.

05 Nov 2019 by James Chu
Structured products can help in uncertain times

Ten years on since the financial crisis, the chairman of the UK Structured Products Association (UK SPA) Zak de Mariveles (pictured) looks at the lessons learned, how investor behaviour has changed, and how the structured products market in particular has evolved, and can offer compelling solutions in today's uncertain markets.

23 Oct 2019 by Zak de Mariveles
Forget stock picking, or the factor investing hype, structured product selection is what you need

Many investors, including large asset managers and institutional ones spend a good deal of intellectual and research effort looking for great and mispriced stocks. While this investing style might have been successful in past decades, it has performed very poorly recently, and even fashionable spins of it, namely factor investing, are performing poorly and dangerously overcrowded.

15 Oct 2019 by Talal Dehbi
Structured products are better than their reputation suggests

Criticism surrounding structured products is often unfair and based on a few isolated cases, according to Fredrik Bonthron, the head of the Swedish Structured Products Association (SPIS).

11 Oct 2019 by Fredrik Bonthron
Credit-linked products retain 'sound rationale'

Credit-linked products continue to occupy an important niche in structured products markets and sales in 2019 year to date are on track to match last year’s 12 month total of around US$ 10.5bn globally.

18 Sep 2019 by Tim Mortimer

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