The Slow Death of Capital Protection

Christian Bauer and Marc Oliver Rieger
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Christian Bauer: Department of Eonomics, University of Trier, 54296 Trier, Germany
Marc Oliver Rieger: Department of Eonomics, University of Trier, 54296 Trier, Germany

JRFM, 2021, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-8

Abstract: Capital protected products are a special type of structured retail products that guarantee a minimum amount of payment at maturity. They were the earliest type of structured products and are very popular with risk averse investors, but nevertheless have become rare in the past years. Using a unique dataset of all structured products issued in Switzerland, one of the biggest markets for such products in the world, we investigate why this has been the case, and argue that it is to a large degree an effect of the zero-interest policy of central banks.

Keywords: structured products; structured financial products; structured notes; capital protected notes; guarantee certificates; zero interest policy; loss aversion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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