The Equity Derivatives Landscape Is Changing, But By How Much?

More and more often, sophisticated investors are designing and implementing their own quantitative strategies in-house, turning to banks or asset managers for portfolio completion or hedging. At the same time, other asset managers that traditionally avoided derivatives are starting to consider equity-linked strategies. The universe of investors interested in volatility and complex equity-derivative based quantitative strategies seems to be evolving. EQDerivatives’ Georgia Reynolds and Elinor Comlay spoke with banks on both sides of the Atlantic to understand how the derivatives landscape is changing.