SRP Apac Awards: Stay invested, market neutral approach bears fruit for UBS

Vivienne Chia, head of structured products origination & product management for Asia-Pacific, UBS, recalls 2019 as challenging and a particularly tough year for structured products. But the bank moved ahead to turn the transaction business around. “The sell-off at the beginning of the year meant that the markets started off on a very heavy foot and investors’ sentiment was negative – the US-China trade war and the interest rates cut created a sense of uncertainty among inv