Alex Morris, partner and IFA at Financial Relationships, says the FSA intends newly accredited bodies to audit firms’ professional standards on its behalf post-RDR.

Clive Moore, managing director of Investment Design & Distribution, explains why investor demand for auto-call products is on the rise.

The FSA is consulting on exempting Holloway products from RDR fee-based payments, but the devil is in the detail as the exemption would not apply to all products.

Sales of structured products in the retail market reached £12.3bn in 2010, £1.5bn down on the total sales for 2009 of £13.9bn, according to data from structuredretailproducts.com.

Incapital Europe is to undertake a new nationwide series of structured product Masterclasses in 2011.

2011 could see some interesting structures launched but IFAs should be discerning in their product selection, suggests Gilliat Financial Solutions' managing director Adrian Neave

In the first in our new Insight series looking at aspects of the structured product market, we examine the autocall structure, otherwise known as kick-out plans

Ian Lowes of StructuredProductReview.com takes an in-depth look at the Jubilee Financial Products Inflation Linked Income Plan

Emma Davidson, head of Retail Sales UK and Ireland, Cross Asset Group, for Citi, looks at the main differences between structured products and structured funds

Lowes Financial Management has launched CompareStructuredProducts.com, a free-to-use, consumer facing website that allows retail investors to research and compare available products and request the relevant literature from the Lowes database.