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Key Takeaways

The 2025 structured investment (SI) market carried forward prior years’ momentum, powered by a new set of macro inputs, product designs, and technology-driven efficiencies.

99.5
Record SI issuance on the iCapital platform in 20251

U.S. structured investment issuance on the iCapital platform reached a new high in 2025, driven by strong equity market performance, continued reinvestment activity, and sustained advisor adoption across channels.

Tech-Linked Structured Investment Issuance

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Among single stock underliers, the Magnificent 7 were featured in roughly $11 billion in notional on platform.1

As AI and mega-cap technology outpaced the broader market, tech-linked underliers accounted for a growing share of structured investment issuance

Volatility Shaped Product Demand

Volatility spikes and declining interest rates strengthened demand for yield-oriented defined outcome structures, with contingent protection and callability in focus.

Product Innovation Accelerated

New underliers, payoff designs, and wrappers—including Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS), buffered ETFs, and separately managed accounts (SMAs)—expanded how advisors deliver defined outcomes.

Technology and Platform Adoption Advanced Core SI Use

Advancements in education, analytics, and customization supported the continued shift in structured investments from tactical allocations towards core portfolio use.

2025 Structured Investments Insights Report

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ENDNOTES

1. iCapital, with data as of December 31, 2025, and based on availability as of January 31, 2026. The SI data in this report is based upon the notional volume of transactions in structured investment CUSIPs that flowed through the iCapital structured investments platform, which does not reflect the entire universe
of structured investments that were available in the market during this time frame.

2. Bloomberg, iCapital, based on price return and as of December 31, 2025

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