Who's driving the market - consumers, advisers or providers?

STRUCTURED PRODUCTS

If better structured products are to be developed providers need to be clearer about what they are marketing while advisers need to tell providers what sort of products they and their customers want to see

Who's driving the market - consumers, advisers or providers? The question is in fact a very good one. There is an awful lot of speculation about where the structured product market is set to go in 2006 and beyond. It is not a question that can be easily answered without some thought going into who will do the driving? After meteoric volume increases in the late nineties and early into the new century the market has reached a plateau over the past couple of years. But will this trend continue with steady organic growth, will a bull run in the stock market lead to a decline in structured pro...