As we approach the year-end, we review the most featured underlying assets in structured products issued year-to-date across the Asia Pacific market.
The tech and chip business boom this year has prompted shares of Tencent and Nvidia to be the top two most-used underlyings for Hong Kong’s equity-linked investment (ELI) issuance this year. Among over 11,500 tranches of ELI issued in Hong Kong year-to-date, some 1,146 products and 1,124 products featured the Chinese tech giant stock and US chipmaker stock, respectively. The underlyings were mainly constructed in a basket of stock structure within ELI, while some were also seen in the sin