Structured Products/Review

Product review: A Goldman Sachs long player

Goldman Sachs is offering US investors a long play on the S&P 500 as well as some regular coupon income. The annual coupon and long product term provide a considerable buffer before capital is lost. Returns are uncapped, but the eight-year and seven…

Volatility capped access to funds

ING Bank is offering Swedish investors a product that has the classic benefits of allowing access to an unusual and potentially risky underlying while changing its return profile. The product is based on the East Capital Russia Fund, giving local…

Dutch Trigger

Van Lanschot has issued five-year trigger notes based on the AEX index of the 25 most-traded Dutch stocks. The product offers a minimum of 10% per annum on potential early maturity, although capital is not protected if the 50% barrier is breached at the…

The call and collateralisation

Citi is providing an open-ended structured fund linked to the FTSE 100 index. Investments in the Autocall Fund mature when kickout occurs or when a five-year cycle is completed, and proceeds are reinvested on kickout. The fund is fully collateralised…

Accelerated returns

Morgan Stanley is offering the potential of accelerated returns with an investment in a six-year FTSE 100-linked growth product. The maximum payout is 80% of the initial investment, although capital is at risk

Fast Asian kickout

UBS recently offered investors in Hong Kong the opportunity to invest against the iShares FTSE/Xinhua A50 China Tracker Fund. Capital would have been at risk had the three-month product not kicked out after the first month

A choice of credit ratings

Investors can choose between a Triple B and a Single A rated bank issuer in this five-year rollover plan, and receive different coupon payments on the basis of this choice as long as index levels at the product’s anniversaries are above the strike level

All four one

MSS Investments has enlisted the Swedish Export Credit Corporation as issuer of a six-year capped growth product linked to the performance of a basket of global indexes based on infrastructure, equities, fixed income and emerging markets

Sixteen again

Arc is offering a sterling-denominated play on emerging markets - specifically the iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund ETF and Hang Seng China Enterprise Index - which promises returns of 16% for each year of its five-year term if no kickout occurs

Autocalling China

Morgan Stanley has produced a two-year autocallable linked to the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund with a 10% buffer. Increases above the target level are not passed onto the investor

Nordic horizons

Markets in the Nordic region have been far from immune from the troubles that have hit structured products across Europe. But speakers and delegates at the Structured Products Nordic Region conference spoke of light on the horizon - despite the pressing…

Small buffer in a big market

JP Morgan issued a dual directional straddle product with a 10% buffer just over a year ago. Relying on nothing more than a slight fall in equity markets over the past 12 months has proved an easy way to erode capital

Combining CDSs and equities

Duggan Asset Management is offering exposure to equity and credit markets with its new capital-protected simple growth product. As well as access to an unusual asset class - credit default swaps - participation is linked to the DJ Eurostoxx 50

Five years and six options

Barclays Bank has issued a five-year product that allows investors to choose the level of protection required and achieve a higher participation rate if they opt for a lower level. Each of six versions of the product has an option on the FTSE 100

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