05 Jun 2025
People: BMO’s head of equity structuring exits, Causeway targets South African market
Also: Cboe reshuffles senior team and MerQube continues hiring spree.
04 Jun 2025
MerQube: demand for thematic exposures has shifted
The fintech continues to expand its footprint in the structured products market with an increasing presence in Europe. In less than a year MerQube’s indices have more than trebled their AuM in the retail structured products market.
21 May 2025
Impact Cubed: ESG state of play and what integration looks like in 2025
The investment solutions provider recently made headlines with the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), who will leverage their suite of ESG data.
29 Apr 2025
Annuities roundup: AuguStar adds five more MerQube indices to FIA
Also: advisor found in breach of fiduciary duty; GBU Life unveils new annuity; Athene simplifies flagship FIAs; and new report predicts US annuity to reach US$388 billion by 2029.
25 Apr 2025
Product wrap: France embraces transatlantic trail
In this week’s wrap we look at a selection of structured products with strike dates between 20-26 April 2025.
22 Apr 2025
SRP in brief: all about alts
Alternative investments are in focus following CAIS's announcement last week that is launching a new business line targeted at registered independent advisors (RIAs).
16 Apr 2025
MerQube volatility control indices debut in annuity
The multi-asset suite with intraday volatility control and varying weighting methods is exclusively licensed to AuguStar for its fixed index annuity (FIA).
14 Mar 2025
Product wrap: Goldman tracks Morningstar Transat sector ESG index, partners with HSBC
In this week’s wrap we look at a selection of structured products with strike dates between 9-15 March 2025.
17 Jan 2025
Arrivals and departures 2024: index providers
SRP’s Summer Wang looks back at some of the key hires at Merqube, MSCI, STOXX and FTSE Russell in 2024.
04 Nov 2024
SRP in brief: recapping
Over the past week, we looked at the latest dynamics on decrement indices in the US structured note market, a flurry of banking earnings for Q3 2024, and the new regulatory moves from Europe to Asia.
01 Nov 2024
Spotlight on US: decrement indices stagger
The demand for decrement indices in the US structured note market has been faltering despite this year’s growth.
22 Oct 2024
Latest: Leonteq adds private bank to white-label roster
The Swiss provider has entered into a new cooperation with a local private bank for the manufacturing and distribution of structured products.