Below are thought leadership pieces focused on structured products. These accounts provide insights from experts who have played a pivotal role in the field.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Structured deposits in China have always involved a delicate balancing act between offering low risk and beating deposit interest rates.
Ingenuity is probably one of the most distinctive qualities of the structured product industry.
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.
Equity markets were down last year, and suffered the worst downward run in five years.
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