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.
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.
Wealth arm braced for new client inflows while Gilliat needs to rethink business model
Since the financial crisis, counterparty or credit risk have been under closer scrutiny when researching structured products.
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.
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 has announced a partnership with Toronto-based Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), the counterparty for a new discretionary-focused structured products venture.
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.
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.
Morgan Stanley has taken advantage of a period of volatility to create more favourable pricing terms on two of its structured products.
Investec has unveiled a suite of new structured products which are available for investment up until mid-August.
Morgan Stanley has launched a new structured product targeting the 20 largest stocks by market capitalisation in the FTSE 100.
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.