In the first three months of 2007, a total of CHF 20.6 billion worth of structured products changed hands in the Swiss market of “SWX Quotematch AG”, a jointly owned subsidiary of the SWX Group and Deutsche Börse AG. That corresponds to a 58.4 % increase over the comparable prior-year quarter and also represents the second-strongest quarter in Swiss securities exchange history. A significant increase was also recorded in total trading volume, with 674,104 trades executed in the first quarter – a 27.8 % gain compared to the same period in 2006.
On average, each month witnessed the admission of 2,000 new investment and leveraged products. The number of tradable instruments on SWX Quotematch AG at the end of March 2007 amounted to 13,257. During the initial trading days of April, an additional 400 new products were admitted to the market. As a result, investors have an increasingly wide range of products to help them implement their investment strategies in an optimal manner.
Starting today, the new www.swxquotematch.com Website is accessible for all investors. With its new, user-friendly functions that enable searches to be made either by product type or underlying instrument, as well as pages with the latest market information, it provides investors with all they need to know about structured products.
