Selected insights

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

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
The future is smart for FIAs

There is little doubt that fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) provide a risk-return function that investors want – they limit losses and have the ability to shape potential returns. But since interest rates have decreased, indexed annuities linked to risk control indices have become increasingly popular.

22 Aug 2019 by Tiago Fernandes & Mladen Karov
The new golden child of Chinese structured products

Structured deposits in China have always involved a delicate balancing act between offering low risk and beating deposit interest rates.

07 Aug 2019 by Tiago Fernandes
Decrement Indices: does complexity pay out?

Ingenuity is probably one of the most distinctive qualities of the structured product industry.

03 Jun 2019 by Tiago Fernandes & Nikolay Nikolov
If it looks like a structured product, behaves like a structured product and sounds like a structured product, then it probably is one

23 Apr 2019 by Tiago Fernandes
Surfing the US yield curve looking for income

An inverted US Treasury yield curve is widely thought to signal risks for the financial market as long-term debt products display a lower yield prospect than short-term structures with the same credit quality.

27 Feb 2019 by Tiago Fernandes
Bad Year for S&P500, structured product industry kicks-in with protection

Equity markets were down last year, and suffered the worst downward run in five years.

08 Jan 2019 by Tiago Fernandes
South Africa - It’s all about preserving your capital

When I first started to become familiar with the South African market, one of my first questions was why so much investment in foreign currencies.

06 Dec 2018 by Tiago Fernandes

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