Structured Products

  • No adviser has the expertise to dismiss SPs

    No adviser has the expertise to dismiss SPs

    Very occasionally I find myself at a conference or other industry event seated next to a fellow adviser who holds diametrically opposed views to my own on structured products.

  • Arbuthnot wealth profits up 70pc

    Arbuthnot wealth profits up 70pc

    Wealth arm braced for new client inflows while Gilliat needs to rethink business model

  • Structured research more transparent since crisis

    Structured research more transparent since crisis

    Since the financial crisis, counterparty or credit risk have been under closer scrutiny when researching structured products.

  • Meteor brings Focus to structured product arena

    Meteor brings Focus to structured product arena

    Meteor Asset Management and Racing Green Investment Services have joined forces to introduce a new structured product provider to the UK market, Focus Structured Solutions.

  • client suitability structured flaw product design

    client suitability structured flaw product design

    Structured products have their naysayers without doubt but are advisers using them for the wrong client who then blame the product providers or are there structurral flaws that still need to be resolved?

  • Morgan Stanley uses CIBC

    Morgan Stanley uses CIBC

    Morgan Stanley has announced a partnership with Toronto-based Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), the counterparty for a new discretionary-focused structured products venture.

  • LandG dumps head structured products

    LandG dumps head structured products

    Legal & General Investment’s head of structured solutions has paid the price for poor sales and been made redundant after 15 years with the firm.

  • soc gen walker crips structured product

    soc gen walker crips structured product

    Walker Crips Structured Investments is to be the plan manager for a range of four new structured products designed by Société Générale and available exclusively to UK intermediaries.

  • Market volatility benefits Morgan Stanley

    Market volatility benefits Morgan Stanley

    Morgan Stanley has taken advantage of a period of volatility to create more favourable pricing terms on two of its structured products.

  • Investec structured products

    Investec structured products

    Investec has unveiled a suite of new structured products which are available for investment up until mid-August.

  • New Morgan Stanley structured

    New Morgan Stanley structured

    Morgan Stanley has launched a new structured product targeting the 20 largest stocks by market capitalisation in the FTSE 100.

  • a cut out and keep guide

    a cut out and keep guide

    Structured products have had a bad reputation since the financial crisis saw a great deal of people lose money in plans they thought were 'guaranteed'. For downside protection they can still be worth looking at though, as long as you are aware the devil is in the detail.