Opening up to oil

Daily papers love to report on oil hitting ‘record highs’. They also like to provide gloomy news about the equity markets. It’s no surprise then that retail investors are crying out for oil-linked products. But innovation in the area is proving to be slow. By Patrick Fletcher

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Commodity-linked structured products are a relatively new phenomenon. According to Stefan Weiser, London-based European head of commodities investor sales at Goldman Sachs, the institutional investor market only took off in 1999/2000, while for private investors this has only happened in the past two years. Weiser says this is a function of two things. First, tactical opportunities in the commodity market are much stronger than other markets. Second, diversification is no longer a privilege of

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