In the second part of our US structured products market overview, we look at the issuer and distributor league tables, issuance levels and sales volumes, the underlyings driving most of the activity as well as the payoff profiles favoured by retail investors and the preferred investment terms.
The US market has seen steady growth since the launch of the SRP US database in 2005, and in 2020 it registered its highest ever annual growth – both in terms of product issuance and sales volumes. Some 22,582 structured products worth $67.1 billion had strike dates in the US in 2020 to date* - up from the 21,624 products with a combined volume of $60.1 billion that struck in FY2019, and the market’s best performance since the inception of the SRP database in 2005. Rollover opportu