Evidence of continued strong sector performance of structured product maturities

As the UK seemingly emerges from the worst of the pandemic and the widespread easing of Covid restrictions, we continue to see a strong performance from structured product maturities.

Following on from quarter one 2021, the best-performing period for the UK retail sector since the beginning of the pandemic; impressively, Q2 2021 has gone one better. It seems that as we edge back into ‘normality' the sector, and markets more generally have moved in line with this positivity - albeit not quite reaching pre-pandemic levels.  The average FTSE 100 closing level for Q2 2021 was 7,017.40, where the average level for the whole of 2020 was 6,276.21; consequently, Q2 2021 generated a total of 135 maturities throughout its three-month period, which was seven fewer than the tw...