In 2022, the market environment has so far been characterized by numerous uncertainty factors such as geopolitical tensions, inflation spikes, and interest rate hikes by central banks. How have the markets responded overall? Which product and asset classes have weathered these stress tests best? What are the current innovations and future investment trends? Answers to these questions and more are provided in the new ETP & Indexing Guide 2022/2023 (available in German).
Enabling Investors to Make Informed Investment Decisions
SIX Swiss Exchange has been co-editor of the Guide since 2013 and contributes to an interesting publication. In his welcome address, Christian Reuss, Head SIX Swiss Exchange, highlights the role of the exchange, which has ensured capital raising on the primary market and price discovery on the secondary market at all times, despite the recent challenges. With a focus on the ESG topic, he also shows how the Swiss stock exchange enables investors to make informed investment decisions.
Great Choice on the Swiss Stock Exchange
In his interview, André Buck, Global Head Sales & Relationship Management and member of the Executive Board of SIX Swiss Exchange, looks back on the past months. Despite declining trading volumes, historic milestones have already been reached in 2022 and numerous new issuers with innovative products have been welcomed, significantly increasing the number of financial products available. As a result, the Swiss stock exchange offers investors even more diversity with over 50,000 structured products and more than 1,600 ETFs.
QOD: Additional Liquidity-pool for ETF Trading
André Buck also talks about the benefits and development to date of “Quote-on-Demand” (QOD). This groundbreaking innovation of the Swiss Exchange combines classic quote-driven trading in the public order book with a request-for-quote service in an additional order book – including settlement via CCP, which minimizes counterparty risks.
In another interview, Gazmend Maliqi, Head of the Swiss Index Operations Team at SIX, talks about Switzerland's flagship benchmark, the SMI, as well as other indices, including those with an ESG focus.
Refreshed Recognition
SIX Swiss Exchange received several awards in 2022: Exchange of the Year, Best European Exchange for the Listing of Crypto ETPs and Best Exchange for Structured Products and Derivatives in Europe.
Get Your Personal Copy
Copies of the ETP & Indexing Guide 2022/2023 can be ordered at the payoff website. The Guide is a comprehensive reference work for sophisticated private investors, client advisors and independent asset managers. In addition to comprehensible background and trend reports, it offers product charts, sorted by asset classes or sector strategies as well as the dp rating and performance – the optimal navigation aid for buy-side readers.