Increasing and optimising returns motivates more than half of German investors to purchase structured products.

Some 52.3% of German investors purchase structured securities to increase and optimise returns from their portfolio, according to the latest ‘Trend of the Month’ survey conducted in August by the German association for structured securities ( Bundesverband für Strukturierte Wertpapiere or BSW). Structured securities are versatile tools when it comes to fine-tuning a portfolio - Christian Vollmuth, BSW Nearly one-fifth of investors (19.6%) use structured products to hedge the