On August 18 FinanceAsia held its annual cocktail party to celebrate with the winners of our Structured Products Awards for 2010-11. The event was held at Shore, a swank new restaurant and bar in Central.
Many of the winners gathered that evening have made big changes to their teams during the past few years, to reflect a shift towards providing clients with derivatives-based solutions’ rather than products’. Choosing to re-focus in this way has led to better-organised teams that can design and execute cross-asset structures to help clients achieve a wide range of goals, which is also more interesting than shovelling accumulators to private bank clients. This ability...