Structured product industry facing stagnation

The Investment Bridge managing director Chris Taylor said there is a sense of "product fatigue" setting in as product providers continue to shun genuine innovation in favour of "strategy toe-dipping." He said: "For a good few years now, there has not been anything that is particularly new that is breaking the mould coming out of the industry. "There are some signs of ever decreasing circles and product fatigue around the current set of providers, who are all issuing products which have roughly the same look and feel. Pricing constraints are also making returns on those products less c...