Structured Products Awards for Excellence 2018 – Best Structured Product Provider to Independent Asset Managers

2018 Winners

Best Structured Product Provider to
Independent Asset Managers

LEONTEQ

Joel Gasche
co-head independent asset managers & family offices, North Asia, Leonteq

We are a pure play provider of structured products, have a client-centric business model, and have developed our technology platform in-house. We do not carry out banking activities and hence do not compete with our clients and partners. Our multi-issuer platform allows clients to choose from an industry-leading number of payoffs and underlyings. Since this year, we are also able to offer structured products issued by Standard Chartered in Asia.

We have dedicated teams in Hong Kong and Singapore focusing exclusively on independent asset managers which is a unique setup in Asia. This allows us to deliver tailor-made solutions to our clients.

We are taking targeted steps to grow our business through additional investments in innovation and technology in order to increase our market share in Asia. To enable further scalability of our business, Leonteq has initiated the SHIP – Smart Hedging and Issuance Platform – project to connect our issuance partners with hedging partners, which is expected to improve option pricing for our clients.

As the independent asset manager (IAM) community grows steadily and significantly in both Singapore and Hong Kong, Leonteq continues to ride the wave. Following a stellar 2017, Leonteq continued to impress the industry, posting a 25% increase in its IAM client base, thereby taking its share of the market to new heights.

In addition, the firm saw increased demand for more bespoke and leveraged solutions that support IAMs in efficiently implementing strategies and managing client assets.

“We have dedicated teams in Hong Kong and Singapore focusing exclusively on independent asset managers which is a unique setup in Asia. This allows us to deliver tailor-made solutions to our clients,” said Joel Gasche, co-head independent asset managers and family offices, North Asia at Leonteq.

On top of its own dynamic product shelf, Leonteq recently partnered with Standard Chartered Bank. Leonteq is exclusively manufacturing equity-linked structured products issued by Standard Chartered Bank.

Further, with a deep understanding of disruptive financial technologies, Leonteq has been proactively adopting tech solutions to improve scalability, efficiency, and user experience. Taking a client-centric approach, the firm has placed emphasis on servicing clients throughout the product lifecycle — from idea creation to execution to lifecycle management to the secondary market.

“We are taking targeted steps to grow our business through additional investments in innovation and technology in order to increase our market share in Asia,” Gasche said.

“To enable further scalability of our business, Leonteq has initiated the SHIP (Smart Hedging and Issuance Platform) project to connect our issuance partners with hedging partners, which is expected to improve option pricing for our clients.”

Proving itself ready and willing to meet the growing and increasingly intense demands of Asia’s IAMs, Leonteq was the near-unanimous choice for this year’s Best Structured Product Provider to Independent Asset Managers.