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in July and August as ~US$4.0bn of legacy products may knock-out in Jul-17 with an average HSCEI knock-out level of 9665 (Chart 43). e — Issuance in KOSPI2-linked products (up from US$840mn to US$846mn) remained steady in May-17; HSI-linked products fell 66% from US$360mn to US$120mn as investors prefere

since 2014. Products issued in Oct-16 (US$3.1bn) and Nov-2016 (USS3.4bn) have knocked out recently and rolled into new products. However, the legacy HSCEl-linked products issued in May-15 were struck at a very high HSCEI spot level and were not able to knock-out this month. We think issuance may pick up

t Level Table 5: Volatility measures of major Asian indices (data as of 5-Aug-16) Korean structured product issuance increased to US$1.9bn in July: KOSPI2-linked products dominated Korean auto-callable product issuance ticked up last month, with a total of USS 1.9bn notional issued, vs. USS 1.6bn total

largest increase. KOSPI2-linked issuance hence took over SX5E-linked issuance (currently USS$436mn), which was relatively unchanged compared to June. HSCEl-linked issuance (currently USS 69mn) further declined whereas HSl-linked issuance (currently USS 262mn) increased again. SPX-linked issuance grew to

ll Lynch Global Equity Volatility Insights | 20 June 2017 19 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014990 --- PAGE BREAK --- Chart 29: The ratio of AS51 3M ATM IV over HSCEL is at its 4-yr high Table 8: Index pairs‘ with the highest implied vol ratio vs their histories (Daily data from 1-Oct-12 through 16-Jun-17) (data a

% 2M 25d-Call KOSPI2 (14.2%) NIFTY (12.2%) 1.16 98% ° Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research 5% * Index universe includes the ASX200, HSCEI, HSI, KOSPI2, NIFTY, NKY, TWSE, SPX and SX5E a a oo a a a ee mid level implied vol ise] iss} o oO D o ise] D o ise] D o ise] oO > Sao 7 SYN FT EH FEY FOS Source: