Stocks remain the king of Asia’s structured products market. Semiconductors lead single stock structures’ underlying exposures.
Single-stock and worst-of- structures linked to stocks have dominated the structured products market in Asia ex-China year to date, accounting for two-thirds of the market based on estimated sales volumes in the first nine months of the year, according to SRP data. Worst-of-stock structures, make up for 35% of the market share so far this year, having gained traction across Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan - in South Korea however sales of these structures declined by 37% year-on-year during the Januar