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Australian Awards 2008
Following our inaugural Australian structured products awards in 2007, we are again recognising the critical work done by some of the industry's leading firms and individuals in 2008.
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Sentiment Indicator
Senior Asian investment strategists / portfolio managers from global wealth management firms tell Innovative Investor how private clients should be thinking about their portfolio over the coming months amid the current unprecedented volatility and uncertainty.
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The Flow Must Go On
As banks strive to reduce balance-sheet risk and keep overheads down, the flexible and low-cost nature of online software solutions to enhance their trading platform deserves a closer look, writes Mark Wightman, SuperDerivatives' vice president for Asia-Pacific.
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Playing it Safe
The combination of a stronger US dollar and much-reduced appetite for risky or leveraged deals has dampened demand for emerging market product from private banks and asset managers, at least for the time being. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Rebuilding Confidence
The Asian structured products market will look very different for at least the next 12 to 18 months as the market tries to recover from the fall from grace it has experienced over recent months, coupled with the likelihood of a much stricter regulatory landscape. Written by Andrew Crooke
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How to Find the Best Protection
How to Find the Best Protection
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Breathing Life Back into Structured Products
In response to what has been one of its most challenging years ever, Australia's structured products industry is gearing itself up to bounce back as it tries to cater to the changing appetite among an ever-more cautious group of retail and wholesale investors. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Investment Strategy - Sentiment Indicator
In an attempt to identify the main themes, opportunities and challenges driving the markets in the second half of this year - and how private clients should be positioning themselves - Innovative Investor talks to five senior Asian investment strategists and portfolio managers from global wealth management firms.
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Uncertainty Bodes Well for Diversity
Structured product providers seem to be working harder this year than ever before. The combination of life-after-flow and the extreme swings in market sentiment has made a multi-asset class offering as well as broad and responsive structuring and advisory capabilities critical for survival. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Thailand's Benchmark for a Structured Future
As appetite among retail investors for greater diversification and more sophisticated products continues to widen, the Stock Exchange of Thailand is launching an array of new initiatives aimed at spurring demand in the derivatives and exchange-traded fund space. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Demand for Themes Drives Index Funds
With investors eyeing specific themes and access to certain asset classes, index and ETF activity has been flourishing in Asia this year. The trend looks set to continue as product research and development rises to the challenge. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Leveraging Technology
Bank infrastructure has often struggled to keep pace with the phenomenal growth rate of the structured products market in recent years, showing why technology and data must be a core part of the solution, writes Mark Wightman of SuperDerivatives.
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Finding a Way to Beat Inflation
With inflationary concerns ever-present in media headlines and investors' minds, opportunities have emerged to tailor products accordingly. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Is Now the Time to Be Alternative?
Opportunities for non-traditional asset classes as underlyings for structured products are generating a lot of interest among high net worth investors searching for a more diversified and less correlated portfolio. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Hong Kong Sharpens Focus on Retail Products
With international regulatory concern about the suitability of structured products more acute than possibly ever before, Martin Wheatley, chief executive officer of Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission, explains the watchdog's stance and how it is working hard to ensure adequate investor protection when it comes to retail products. Written by Andrew Crooke
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How to Cater to More Cautious Investors
With liquidity, diversification, capital protection, short maturity and growth now the preferred product features for retail and high net worth investors in Asia, how are distributors and manufacturers meeting demand for such lower risk and simpler structures? Written by Andrew Crooke
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The Great Technology Race
A fully automated platform for manufacturing, selling and trading structured retail products is the one true differentiating factor which will set the world's largest investment banks apart in the industrialisation of the global equity derivatives business currently underway — as well as ensure providers are well-positioned for when markets stabilise. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Why Asia Must Learn from European Diversity
The recent fall-out in Asia from the reliance last year on a limited range of bull-market structured products is a stark reminder that manufacturers and distributors still have a lot to learn about diversification from more mature markets such as Europe. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Prising Open South-East Asia
First in Malaysia, and now in Thailand and Indonesia, local banks, insurance firms and fund houses are benefiting from regulatory liberalisation which is allowing them to offer a wider range of structured products to retail investors. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Finding a Niche in Japan’s Retail Market
Innovative Investor spoke to a selection of foreign intermediaries in Tokyo to find out how they are positioning themselves in the retail structured products space this year. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Why Bearish Markets Bode Well for Wealth Managers
In a frank and in-depth interview with Innovative Investor, Bryan Henning, global product head, wealth management for Standard Chartered Bank's consumer banking business, tells Andrew Crooke why the likely slowdown in structured product sales might be a positive thing for the longer term development of the wealth management industry in Asia. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Trends to Watch Out For in 2008
Innovative Investor asks some of the leading buy-side and sell-side participants in Asia's structured products market to predict what threats, opportunities, themes, trends and events they think will shape their professional lives this year. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Carving a Custom-made Niche
Product innovation is a critical success factor for the four leading index providers as differentiation in Asia increasingly means responding quickly and flexibly to the next popular investment theme. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Casting a Wider Net
Being able to provide retail investors with cheaper and easier access to alternative markets and asset classes via exchange-traded products is driving a more flexible structured products regime in Hong Kong. Written by Andrew Crooke
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グローバルな視点が日本における戦略の要
日本の株式市場は、グローバルな信用危機による打撃を比較的受けずに上昇しているように見受けられます。最大の投資機会は国境を越えた視点を持つ企業や投資家が有しているように思われます。
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In Search of Life Beyond Equities
Asia’s unprecedented equity bull-run in 2007 has considerably narrowed the types of structured products sold to private clients to mainly non-principal protected range accruals and accumulators, among other high fee-earning products. But there is an urgent need to diversify risk and make the market more sustainable, so where is this likely to come from? At a recent gathering in Singapore, several leading product specialists discussed the many challenges facing the industry. Written by Andrew Crooke
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China: Catering to a Growing Appetite for Risk
As Chinese investors look for new ways to allocate their ever-increasing wealth, a greater appetite for new and riskier products is paving the way for manufacturers to be creative in ways not seen before in the onshore market. That is assuming they overcome the challenge of educating local distribution partners spread across thousands of miles and avoid the threat of mis-selling complaints which will come with the added complexity. Written by Andrew Crooke
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How to Optimise Your Portfolio in Today's Markets
At a series of high-level gatherings across Asia-Pacific in September and October, some of the region's leading fund managers, wealth advisers and strategists revealed how private and institutional clients can manage current volatility and optimise their equity portfolios in the current volatile environment. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Commodities Stake Their Claim
At this stage of the equity market cycle, are commodity structured products well-placed to find favour with private clients in Asia? Written by Andrew Crooke
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Australia Demands Innovation
As an ever-growing amount of Australia's superannuation coffers looks for a home via various structured products, senior industry figures at our recent Australian Structured Products Forum 2007 discussed the need for new and interesting ideas to tempt investors further. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Looking Global for a Winning Strategy in Japan
Japan's equity markets look to have emerged relatively unscathed from the global credit crisis. It now seems that the best future opportunities lie with those companies and investors who look beyond domestic borders.
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Taking Advantage of Asia’s Equity Momentum
As financial problems loom in many of the world’s developed markets, Asia’s growth continues, offering equity investors good opportunities for those who know where to look and how to manage the volatility.
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Finding Value in Emerging Asia
While there are still opportunities to be found in Asia, especially in the developing markets, the risk points are multiplying — including the potential for unknown issues still to emerge from the credit market fall-out.
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Is Australia’s Robust Stance Under Threat?
Although there are still opportunities to be found in Australia as key parts of the economy remain strong, the US sub-prime crisis and general global economic threats are slowly taking their toll.
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Uncovering India's New Equity Landscape
At a high-level discussion in Mumbai, several leading equity investors and wealth managers said it was clear that despite recent volatility, the asset class is becoming mainstream. In response, manufacturers and fund managers need to work more closely to cater to investor needs and differentiate themselves.
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Investors Show Cautious Optimism on Australian Equities
With Australian equity fund managers and wholesale investors looking to develop strategies to outperform in today’s market, there is a high degree of caution in the short-term - but room for optimism in the medium term.
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Riding Asia's Equity Rollercoaster
Recent global volatility and the dramatic swings in stock markets have created a testing environment in Asia. But unlike previous downturns and periods of uncertainty, the more stable response of the region's investor base bodes reasonably well for the market's long-term development.
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Indian Equity Buyers Emerge Resilient
In response to the recent volatility at home and abroad, many equity investors in India seem convinced that the country's growth story is here to stay.
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Combining Forces
Werner Schlossmacher explains to Innovative Investor how a new joint venture between Barclays Capital and Barclays Wealth in Asia came about, and why this could well be the way forward for the structured products industry in the region. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Making In-roads in China
For Standard Chartered Bank, The Bank of East Asia and OCBC Bank, three of Asia's leading structured product distributors, accessing the China market is now a critical part of their overall business strategy. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Preparing for a Shift in Buying Behaviour
With so much attention from Asian investors on capital-at-risk products in the first half of this year, what will recent volatility mean for structured products during for the rest of 2007? Written by Andrew Crooke
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Creative Platforms
Senior officials at stock exchanges in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore reveal how they are trying to find out a competitive advantage through providing derivatives and other innovative products to cater to demand. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Taking a Flexible Approach
Thailand's structured products industry is clearly still in its early stages of development. But once momentum starts to pick up, the potential is very real. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Maintaining the Momentum
The fast-growing Australian structured products market is luring more product manufacturers than ever before as they try to stake a claim for their share of the pot. The result is a mix of strategies and products designed to expand existing platforms and find the much-sought after competitive edge. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Managing Expectations
For structured products manufacturers to ultimately provide their promised customer-driven solutions — which achieve what they say they will and are clear about where they fit within the overall asset mix — a more tailored and long-term approach to educating the market is needed. Written by Andrew Crooke
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A Super Future Beckons
How far does the rapid and unabating growth of Australia's superannuation funds promise to boost structured products volume and help propel the industry into the mainstream via a new distribution channel? Written by Andrew Crooke
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How to Be a World Class Manufacturer
Apart from the common request for more education, some of the leading retail distributors and other gatekeepers in Australia reveal what makes a top-tier product provider. Written by Andrew Crooke
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Pacific Prospect - Structured Products Awards 2007
As the Australian structured products market continues to evolve, and the levels of sophistication and innovation grow, we are launching our first series of awards.
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Building a Solid Platform
For Standard Chartered Bank, The Bank of East Asia and OCBC Bank, three of Asia's leading structured product distributors, accessing the China market is now a critical part of their overall business strategy.
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Market Outlook: Cashing in on Retail Demand
Structured products are making up an ever-larger portion of retail portfolios, according to leading market players at our 3rd annual Structured Products Forum in Hong Kong.
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Plugging the Savings Gap
Asia is poised as the next destination for a new generation of structured savings products designed to provide stability, flexibility and performance over the longer term.
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Malaysia's Rapid Rise
Shariah-compliant and other structured products are quickly becoming big business in Malaysia.
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Finding a Way to Beat the Index
Investment strategy indexing may be a new way for product issuers to differentiate themselves in Asia.
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Korea Warms to Alternatives
As alternative assets gain acceptance in the Korean institutional space, the door is opening ever-wider for global fund of hedge fund managers.
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대체 상품에 활기를 띠고 있는 한국
대체 자산이 한국 기관들 사이에 인정 받기 시작하 면서 글로벌 펀드 오브 헤지 펀드 매니저들에게 그 어느때보다 넓은 문이 열리고 있습니다.
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Raising Credit Standards
Global regulatory and accounting reforms are starting to impact how Japanese investors view structured credit.
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厳しくなる基準
世界的な規制・会計制度改革の波が、日本投資家のストラクチャード・クレジットに対する姿勢にインパクトを与え始めている。
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Savvy Investing
Distributors to Australian retail investors want to tap the growing appetite for structured products, according to speakers at our recent Investing for the Future Forum in Sydney.
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Korea Warms to Alternatives
As alternative assets gain acceptance in the Korean institutional space, the door is opening ever-wider for global fund of hedge fund managers.
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Getting Distribution Right
More than ever before, distributors need fast, flexible and thorough service from product manufacturers to best compete for their share of the growing market for retail structured products in Asia.
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Retail Outlook: Issuers Strive for the Mainstream
Six of Asia’s leading product manufacturers outline the biggest opportunities and challenges for equity and fund-linked derivatives in 2007.
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Credit Outlook: Finding Value in Credit
Arrangers have been chasing the vast amount of liquidity in Asia by structuring ever-more creative and tailored credit products, helping the asset class gain greater traction throughout the region.
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India: On the Cusp
Structured products are gaining traction in India as investors look for ways to manage risk.
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China: Stirring the Dragon
The vast potential for structured products in China is growing all the time, encouraging more and more domestic and international players to vie for market share.
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中国 ：巨龙崛起
中国的结构性产品市场潜力巨大，必将吸引越来越多的国内外投资者。
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