The rapid growth of leveraged ETFs, single-stock products and options is bringing more retail investors into equity derivatives, putting greater focus on product risks, investor education and the role of AI.
The rapid expansion of retail participation in equity derivatives and structured products across Asia is creating new opportunities for product providers while raising questions around suitability, investor education and risk management. The risk is that retail investors start using AI not as tools to help them on investment, but to run investment decisions as well Those issues were discussed at the FOW Asia 2026 Conference in Hong Kong on 24 September during a panel moderated by James Chu,