At this, the fourth edition of the prestigious awards, Investec picked up four accolades. 


Investec beat off a number of major local and global houses in landing the Best Distributor (South Africa and Offshore), Best Performance and Deal of the Year – the Offshore Protected Share – Asia Pacific Basket.


The awards took place last night at a gala event in Cape Town, attended by leading South African and global banks, exchanges, law firms, technology providers and other financial markets service providers.  The awards recognise the best performing structured products manufacturers, distributors and service providers in the market, as voted by the industry.


Brian McMillan from Investec Structured Products says the awards are an affirmation of the work Investec has done to establish structured products as an indispensable tool in realising specific investment strategies. “Investors are increasingly seeing the benefit of structured products in providing certainty of outcomes – with attractive pay-out profiles and protection – in uncertain, volatile times. The success of our numerous structures over the years attests to this.” 


Structured products provide a pre-defined risk-and-return profile with returns linked to one or more underlying assets or indices, across currencies and geographies. Investec has launched 21 structured products in the past 12 months, 6 of which were offshore and 15 were rand-denominated local investments.