Americas Report: Back from the breech

The structured products market in the US has been through some lows in the past year. The shock sometimes was so great that the lifeblood of the market, the reverse convertible, was withdrawn completely. It was pointless flogging a product that required equity markets to rise during the lowest points of the financial crisis. Distributors struggled, with some going to wall or pulling out of the business, and structurers followed a similar pattern.

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Markets in the Americas have endured some barren times

A year on from our previous Americas report, and restructuring is no longer the belle of the ball. Structurers are rolling out new products and distributors are back to talking about themes and new investor pockets to pick. Post-crisis, the market has shown that there is the investor interest that will allow the expansion of structured products in the US to somewhere near where it should be. Don’t forget, the US is home to an awful lot of the estimated $7 trillion of the world’s investment

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