Structured products continue to evolve as shown by the emergence of new ETFs and UITs featuring barriers and other forms of principal protection in what are essentially structured product payoffs with a different wrapper.
Panellists at the ETFs and structured products: same payoff, new package discussion at the virtual SRP Americas 2020 Conference on 16 September, analysed how these structures work and compare with traditional offerings, the reasons behind their recent popularity and what these types of innovation mean for the market going forward. There’s a lot of investment going into large cap tech stocks - Mohamed El Hioum Mohamed El Hioum (pictured) , US head of structured products at Forte Securit