22 Jul 2025
BNY Investments launches QIS-linked fund with tail-risk protection
The fund is designed to act as a portfolio overlay, targeting protection against rare but severe market events.
21 Jul 2025
Salt Financial: intraday vol control boosts risk management in FIAs
Volatility-controlled indices featuring intraday data and rebalancing have emerged as new tools to refine the performance of fixed index annuities (FIA), particularly in volatile conditions.
09 Jul 2025
Custom indices: dynamic strategies head-to-head
In this article we compare the characteristics and performance of two similar underlying strategies sold in the US market via structured products.
24 Jun 2025
Strivo: demand for defence theme products has surged
The Swedish distributor is expanding its range of structured products with a new theme-based note issued by J.P. Morgan and linked to a new MerQube strategy
12 Jun 2025
SRP Apac 2025: implementing systematic strategies for structured products
Private banks and wealth clients are the biggest drivers of custom indices in the Apac region, according to panellists at the SRP Asia Pacific Conference 2025 in Hong Kong on 10 June.
13 Mar 2025
Marex enters Nordics with custom range
The launch in the Nordics is part of the company’s plan to “actively expand” into new markets and leverage its fund derivatives and QIS capabilities.
11 Mar 2025
Market cap indices attract divergent views in Asia
Two executives from Citic CLSA and Standard Chartered share different thoughts on the evolving use of traditional market cap indices in Asia’s structured products.
03 Mar 2025
MSCI: market cap indices are valuable in quick-turnaround scenarios
Market cap and sector indices remain the dominant indices in the structured products market with the S&P 500, Eurostoxx 50 and Nikkei 225 driving most of the sales across jurisdictions over the last two years.
07 Jan 2025
ISS STOXX: focus will be on long-term solutions rather than quick-fix approaches
The European index and data provider sees the structured products market as a competitive space where innovation is a differentiator to diversify market exposures and deliver new investment strategies to institutional and retail investors alike.
02 Dec 2024
SRP in brief: index in focus
It was a busy week for the US index-linked annuity market, and elsewhere.
13 Sep 2024
Product wrap: SG focuses on ESG in France, teams up with HSBC in HK SAR
In this week’s wrap we look at a selection of structured products with strike dates between 8-14 September 2024.
19 Aug 2024
MerQube indexes near US$1 billion in structured products sales
The index fintech is capitalising on the support from several structured products issuers in the US market and its speed to market to increase its footprint globally.