Offshore, Private Banking & Institutional Market Review — April 2014

The offshore, private banking and institutional database saw a total of 1,219 products worth an estimated $3.06bn added during April, which saw a considerable setback of 20% compared with $3.8bn worth of issuance recorded the previous month. In terms of issuance, there were 29 fewer products than last month’s 1,258 products. The strong performance of the US and European stockmarkets continued to fuel investor confidence in non-retail structured products while recent downturns in Asian equities a