Pension and life insurance providers of long-term investments and solutions are increasingly looking at structured products to deliver alternatives as traditional products struggle to meet the needs of retirement investors.
SRP spoke to Vincent Idoux, Emea head of equity structured solutions & third-party distribution at UBS Global Markets, about the scope to increase the use of structured products and new wrappers in the European retirement space. According to Idoux, from a theoretical point of view, structured products offer a unique opportunity to design a non-linear payoff that “can meet different investors’ needs” and “can offer a wide variety of solution” at different stages