While large-cap equities' narratives are maintained in the Malaysian market, some local stocks’ rallies also prompt flows to return to the related structured products at the end of 2023.

Principal-protected structured investments have been revived across structured products markets globally as interest rates stay higher for longer. Malaysia has been no exception. With the heightened interest rate environment, the pricing of equity-linked capital protected investments became generally more attractive - Sing Foong Ho, Maybank Maybank is among the Southeast Asian banks to have witnessed investors’ risk appetite shift into principal-protected products from capital at-risk

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