Offshore, Private Banking & Institutional Market Review — January 2014

The new year kicked off positively for the non-retail space of structured products. The offshore, private banking and institutional database saw a total of 1,063 products worth an estimated $3.7bn added during January, compared with $3.33bn worth of issuance recorded the previous month, posting another monthly increase of 10%, while the monthly issuance figure was only slightly higher. The continued gain in sales was contributed to mostly by a surge of investor confidence fuelled by the recent e