FVC Custom Indexes

The US accelerated strategy has consistently outperformed the S&P 500 index in the past six months, while the protected strategy has delivered only modest gains

This month we focus once more on the UK and US markets. The FVC benchmark indexes provide a clear indication of how the three main types of structured products would expect to perform.

Over the past month there have been significant improvements in the performance for the accelerated strategy in both the UK and US markets, following rises in the respective equity indexes.

The US equity market has performed well over the past six months (the S&P 500 is up 10.6% in that time) and so all three US