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European SRP Euromoney Structured retail products survey 2011: Results index
The inaugural European SRP Euromoney Structured Retail Products ranking and awards is a joint venture between www.structuredretailproducts.com and Euromoney magazine. It is the first in a series of comprehensive quantitative and qualitative studies of the structured retail products market
Best manufacturer awards
The best manufacturer awards are based on a survey designed to understand investment banks' market share by apportioning distributors' market share to the various investment banks that hedge the products.
Since the survey does not reach every market participant, it is not intended to reflect European structured retail product activity as an entirety. However, given the geographical spread and participant types the survey covers, Euromoney believes it provides an accurate assessment of trends in the main areas of activity polled and accurately indicates the relative performance of the investment banks.
Given the nature of the market, www.structuredretailproducts.com is the only other reliable, aggregated source of global statistics against which to benchmark the survey.
The survey was conducted over three weeks in June 2011 and covers the previous 12 months' activity. All voting was carried out electronically via a secure, dedicated data collection website. All answers were subsequently vetted and verified by Euromoney and www.structuredretailproducts.com for authenticity.
Nearly 400 valid respondents were polled across Europe, representing over [Euro]100 billion in volume.
Definitions
The survey groups products and volumes by geography and asset type. These are defined as follows:
Geography: The location in which the product is sold, rather than the domicile or head office of the institution that the voter represents or the location in which the respondent is resident.
Asset type: The underlying asset of the product in question: equities, commodities, interest rates, currencies, hybrids and real estate.
Volume: Not nominal but actual sales volume. All amounts are...