DBS' new ESG outperformance trade banks on a 'quality tilt'

Singapore

DBS is launching a new tranche of a structured product with an ESG (environmental, social and governance) theme.

The product - "MSCI EM Asia Leaders Outperformance Trade" - is designed to enable investors to profit from the expectation that companies which are best-in-class in terms of ESG will outperform the market.

This follows a successful run of an earlier "ESG Outperformance Trade" series launched in 2018. Despite a relatively lower awareness then of ESG, the series raised S$95 million over seven tranches.

The new structure caps the maturity pay-off at 15 per cent on a cumulative basis. The product has a 36-mon…

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