Four panellists from different quarters of the industry reflect on the role of structured products to generate yield under the current low interest rates at the virtual SRP Americas Conference on 30 September. The panel was moderated by Tim Mortimer, managing director at Future Value Consultants (FVC).
The yield offered by a five-year zero coupon bond, which can be a proxy for structured product return, reached a record low of 0.17% in August 2020 after hitting the peak of 8.96% in May 1990. In the current consistent low interest rate environment, traditional fixed income investments are no longer able to generate the yield that investors need for their retirement income, according to Thomas N. Biddison III (pictured) , principal at Cornerstone Advisory. We systematically put notes in
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