Category: Products
Prudential hits jackpot with first indexed annuity
North America | Products
10h by Lavanya Nair
Prudential Financial announced that sales of its first indexed variable annuity (IVA) have crossed the US$1 billion threshold after only launching the product earlier this year.
FSMA aims at ‘high costs’ in product governance memo
Europe | Products
10h by SRP News
The Belgian watchdog is targeting credit institutions and insurance distributors that are developing structured products with a memo on product governance.
Analysis: options valuation – the performance of put options over calls
International | Products
10h by SRP Academy
In the last part of our analysis, our goal shifted towards analysing the hedging strains faced by structured product issuers with regards to how they allocate their option budget most effectively to offer the wider barrier/buffers and higher participation rates to investors.
Americas 2020: issuance stable but sales rise
International | Products
10h by Lavanya Nair
As 2020 comes to a close, SRP takes a look at some of the most active issuers in the main structured products market in the Americas during a remarkable year in which high volatility proved to be a driving factor for investors to flock towards structured products.
Bloomberg: market players are seeking to future-proof their structured products activities
International | Products
30 Nov 2020 by Pablo Conde
As demand for advanced risk management and valuation solutions increased in the wake of the pandemic, Bloomberg became the first port of call for many structured products market participants looking for risk analytics and ways to respond to new demand driven by monetary policy developments.
Apac 2020: foreign banks dominate
Asia Pacific | Products
30 Nov 2020 by Summer Wang
As 2020 comes to an end, we look at the top five issuers in the Asia Pacific region in terms of issuance and sales, as well as the types of products and the exposure they offered to their clients.
SRP in brief: ending on a high
International | Products
30 Nov 2020 by Amélie Labbe
One market that isn’t in the news a lot is Thailand, active as it may be.
Analysis: VaR and CVaR in underlyings of structured products
International | Products
30 Nov 2020 by SRP Academy
In this article, we look at the VaR and CVaR on several underlyings used in the US structured products market.
Analysis: looking at estimated volatility
North America | Products
27 Nov 2020 by SRP Academy
In the second part of our analysis on estimated volatility, we look at several products linked to single stocks, ETFs and market cap indices.
