Structured products: Taking the alternative route

Equity derivatives dealers responding to difficult trading environment; New products to cope with volatility and counterparty risk

Equity derivatives and structured products desks have had to be especially nimble over the past year. For the first time, bank counterparty credit risk became a real concern for investors, while market fundamentals – low interest rates and sky-high equity market volatility – have made it difficult to offer traditional principal-protected equity-linked notes. The banks have responded. They have tweaked their usual equity-linked offerings to make them more economic, and they have been busy coming up with products linked to systematic, absolute-return-type strategies.

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