02 Oct 2024
Structured products industry digests China exposure as stimulus measures boost market rally
The market is buzzing about the China stimulus package narrative and its impact on repositioning structured products underlying exposure.
13 Dec 2023
Top underlyings Americas 2023: S&P 500 footprint keeps growing in US, stumbles in Canada
As we approach the year-end we review the most featured underlying assets in structured products issued year-to-date (YTD) across the US, Canadian and Latin American markets based on SRP data.
06 Jun 2023
Analysis: single stock-linked products - a valuable portfolio ‘sharpener’
Stock linked products are popular in many structured product markets worldwide.
05 Jun 2023
Analysis: single stock-linked products - a valuable portfolio ‘sharpener’
Stock linked products are popular in many structured product markets worldwide.
22 Sep 2022
Maybank debuts HK stock warrants in Malaysia
The largest Malaysian bank has begun issuing structured warrants over companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, as market sales and volumes increase year on year.
11 May 2022
Recycling risk (Part 2): offloading vol
Market players talk about how implied volatility is managed by trading desks, and its role in triggering the shift away from traditional equity index-linked autocallables and reverse convertibles structures.
26 Mar 2021
Pharma in structured products (part 5) - option trading strategies and delta hedging
The next section of our analysis focuses on call butterfly, iron condor, bull call spread and bear put Spread option strategies and how adequately their profit potential has been realised in the case of Teva Pharmaceutical (Teva), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Merck (MRK), and Fresenius Medical Care (FMS).
25 Mar 2021
View from the top: investors want a more active approach to saving, investing
Following the expansion of its pool of underlyings and the addition of new leverage factors to its flagship Tesla ETP, SRP spoke to UK-based sponsor of physically backed exchange-traded products (ETPs) Leverage Shares about the firm’s progress since its launch in the summer of 2020.
06 Jul 2020
US provider builds up leverage/short ETP offering in Europe
US ETF provider GraniteShares has launched nine 3x long and nine 3x short (inverse) exchange-traded products (ETPs) on some of the top performing US technology stocks.
24 Jun 2020
The art of stock picking in structured products
The global health and economic situation of 2020 has profoundly changed the world we live in. As a consequence of the economic damage that is expected in both the short and longer terms, equity markets have been on a rollercoaster ride. Tim Mortimer looks at how the stock picking technique used by asset managers can be even more complicated in the structured products market.
10 Apr 2019
Product Snapshot: Leonteq rides the ‘unicorn’ wave
Leonteq is pitching to Swiss investors six new products linked to Lyft – the ride-hailing company which went public recently at a US$24 billion valuation.