The impact of the recent market crash in the structured products world has been well documented. As with any market dislocation, trader and investor losses piled up alongside increasing hedging costs and faltering assets.
The trigger for the current crisis is not credit-related as was the case back in 2008, but a direct consequence of the collapse of the financial markets as the economy came to a halt. In this article, we analyse how the US structured products market fared between February and April 2020 compared to February and April 2019 in terms of sales volume, number of new products issued and product performance. SRP data shows that 57% of new products launched and 60% of the sales volume generated in th
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