The structurer

In the second of a series of interviews with notable participants from all sectors of the industry, Paul Lyon speaks with a leading structurer, Merrill Lynch's Alvise Munari, about the role of manufacturers in the structured products market

How long have you been with Merrill Lynch? Can you give us a flavour of your main areas of responsibility and the size of your team?

I joined Merrill Lynch in April 2005 from Goldman Sachs, and I now head up equity-linked structuring and structured sales in EMEA and flow sales ex-UK.

I am also co-head of the EMEA Strategic Solutions Group, whose mandate is to provide our institutional clients structured solutions across the entire asset class spectrum.

In terms of team size, our EMEA equity-linked