Q&A: Asian Investors Turn To Domestic Currency Structures

Structured product investors in Asia are fast turning to deals denominated in local currencies as reliance on the U.S. dollar declines in the region. Filippo Olivetti, managing director and co-head of markets structuring for Asia Pacific at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Tokyo and Stefan Masuhr, managing director and co-head markets structuring Asia Pacific in Singapore, said the flow will grow in 2013. “This is simply driven by the fact that local investors in countries like Malaysia, [South] Korea and Indonesia simply don’t care for USD as much,” Masuhr told DI in an interview.