11 Jul 2024
SRP France 2024: insurance products forge ahead
The past 18 months have been positive for the French insurance market driven by increased demand for Euro funds and solid market performance.
01 Jul 2024
India bans advertising of ULIPs as ‘investment products’
Unit-linked insurance policies, index-linked insurance and annuity products cannot be advertised as ‘investment products’, according to the India’s insurance regulator.
26 Sep 2023
SRP Americas 2023 Personality of the Year, annuities: Marie-Laure Chandumont
The head of insurance, cross-asset derivatives solutions at Barclays is the recipient of this year’s SRP Americas Personality of the Year Annuities award, after securing the most votes from market participants in the SRP Americas 2023 survey.
07 Jan 2022
Product wrap: Goldman, French insurer partner for autocall on S&P transatlantic ESG index
In the first wrap of the year, we look at a selection of structured products with strike dates between 2-8 January 2022.
07 Sep 2021
Mauritius regulator lifts foreign restrictions on structured investment-linked insurance products
The FSC is seeking to introduce new regulation to support the development of structured investment-linked insurance products in the country.
15 Mar 2021
SRP Europe 2021: protected products a must in the retirement toolkit
The use of structured products by pension advisors to offer decumulation solutions that allow them to retain some pension capital while offering both guaranteed income and continued exposure to the market was a topic of discussion during the Optimisation value in pension and insurance with structured products panel on the final day of the virtual SRP Europe 2021 conference held between 1-4 March.
04 Mar 2021
FNZ Q-Hub: AMCs core to investment bank mandate to develop structured products platform
In the second part of an interview, Walter Cegarra chief executive of Q-Hub, a structured investments platform focused on long term savings QIS/AMCs, and leverage finance, part of FNZ, talks about the platform’s track record and recent case studies.
05 Nov 2020
Solactive: insurance companies are capitalising on cheaper optionality
New underlyings are making their way into the growing area of private retirement planning via structured products.
29 Jan 2020
SRP Europe 2020: Insurance companies can capitalise on client proximity to expand structured products usage
As the structured products industry evolves, new opportunities are opening up new players. SRP spoke to Christian Probst (pictured), head of European structuring at Munich Re about how structured products can add value to investors looking into retirement.
13 May 2019
Exclusive: JP Morgan launches new global equities insurance structuring group
JP Morgan has created a new equities insurance structuring group in a move to strengthen its coverage of the insurance companies which has been identified by the US investment bank as a ‘significant component of growth’ of its equities franchise.
15 Oct 2018
Complexity with no value has no worth, SRP Americas
In view of recent trends and developments in the US indexed insurance market, industry experts expect greater potential for innovation in product development, distribution but most importantly, demonstrating how products add real value to the end investor.