Capital protection
EDHEC and SocGen release rationale for structured products in Asia
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Brisk development of the equity derivatives market in Asia is opening the door to further developments in structured products, according to a research report released in the last quarter of 2011 by EDHEC-Risk...
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This month we compare the performance of three unleveraged return products, two linked to popular benchmark indexes and one to the stock of Amazon
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Irish investors are approaching "soft protected" structures with a degree of scepticism, according to market participants
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UK structured products delivering impressive returns at maturity
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Data from Structuredproductreview.com shows that products maturing over the past three months have performed extremely well overall, with the only losses arising from Lehman Brothers-backed plans
Trade of the month: Bear market products
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The vast majority of structured products follow strategies that are equivalent to being long an underlying index or asset, though they may not fully reflect an increase in the value of that underlying. This group includes principal-protected products,...
Sweden's IFA distribution model looking good for structured products
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Independent financial advisers were in the right place at the right time to take advantage of the development of the retail structured products market in Sweden. And even though the regulatory environment is getting tougher, it remains a good model...
Meteor offers a four-way index play
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Meteor is offering UK investors a play on four indexes, with the lowest weight applied to the least correlated. There are fixed returns after three, four and five years, as long as the growth product does not kick out
Walker Crips tempts UK investors with commodities exposure
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Walker Crisps is offering UK investors a play on the commodity market, which is a more sophisticated underlying than the usual FTSE 100 index. Partial capital protection comes along with a 110% participation in an unlimited upside
Merchant Capital offers an agriculture basket
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Merchant Capital is offering investors the opportunity to take a view on agricultural commodities. The five-year bond underpinning the simple growth product comes from Barclays Bank
Market snapshot: May 2011
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Kick-outs remain popular with the UK market while accelerated growth products come top in the US, expanding their lead on the traditional US favourite, the reverse convertible. Tim Mortimer reviews the markets
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