03 Mar 2025
MSCI: market cap indices are valuable in quick-turnaround scenarios
Market cap and sector indices remain the dominant indices in the structured products market with the S&P 500, Eurostoxx 50 and Nikkei 225 driving most of the sales across jurisdictions over the last two years.
18 Feb 2025
SSPA to launch structured products index
The Swiss trade body aims to bring greater transparency to the structured products market by creating an index comprising BRCs linked to global developed equity markets.
15 Jan 2025
Barclays Aries strategy surfaces in new FIA range
The multi-asset volatility control index is now available in a suite of fixed index annuities (FIAs) to be issued by Delaware Life.
14 Aug 2024
Korea’s Qraft Technologies capitalises on AI-powered strategies for asset allocations
The Seoul-based AI fintech firm has co-designed an AI-powered index with Solactive to replicate a hedge fund’s long-short investment strategy, which has been deployed via structured products sold in Korea.
21 May 2024
Lincoln Financial debuts Rila on active ETF
The Pennsylvania-based insurer has launched a registered index-linked annuity (Rila) linked to an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF), in a first for the US market.
09 May 2024
South Africa’s FNB expands tranche offering with first decrement play
The second tranche offered by the bank is part of its extended partnership with UBS.
02 May 2024
BofA: tactical diversification can help with macro shifts
Bank of America (BofA) has 14 indices referenced in the US annuity market with nearly US$24 billion in assets.
05 Apr 2024
Spotlight: EU investors return to benchmarks as decrement weakens
In the second of a three-part series, SRP reviews the performance of index-linked products in Europe during 2023.
01 Feb 2024
Solactive remains dominant in Canada, eyes US annuity market
The Frankfurt-headquartered index provider is developing new decrement index solutions featuring technology and single stocks targeted at the Canadian market.
14 Jun 2023
SRP Apac Awards 2023: MSCI gains market share with thematics, China exposure
MSCI has won the Best Index Provider accolade at the SRP Apac Awards 2023 for its growth of in the structured product market in 2022 on the back of its offering focused on ESG and China.
16 Sep 2022
Spotlight on… asset classes in the US (H1 2022)
There was a significant shift towards products linked to single indices in H1 2022.
15 Sep 2022
Index v baskets
Many retail structured products are linked to a single equity index for direct exposure to a country, region or sector.