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...
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