Articles by Sophia Morrell
Jubilee's flight to quality
Since Jubilee Financial Products launched in 2008, UK plan managers have found themselves in increasingly turbulent waters. Jubilee’s strategy for success in such conditions has been to limit its scope to the high end of the market, using a top brand…
Breaking the chains
The need to diversify customer credit risk and the rising importance of fiduciary standards make open architecture distribution vital to structured products’ future. As advisers become concentrated in bigger institutions and market volumes remain static,…
The index artists
The past 12 months have posed a new set of challenges for the indexing and exchange-traded fund markets. But as delegates to the Art of Indexing Summit USA in New York heard on October 28, providers are adapting to the changed landscape. Now it is simply…
Statement of intent
Aviva Investors has made a decisive leap into the global structured products market, hiring an industry veteran to lead its multi-asset-class rollout. Sophia Morrell talks to Stephane Rougier, the ex-Lehman Brothers banker who is leading the push.