Structured Products

Gilliat Financial Solutions has launched its new Twin Win product along with the next tranche of its Income Builder series.

Morgan Stanley has launched two 100% capital protected structured products, both delivering ‘simple' payouts linked to the performance of the FTSE 100.

Like most people involved in financial services over the past 15 years or so, it would be fair to say that I had become somewhat cynical of industry award ceremonies and the manner in which awards were accredited to the winners.

Incapital Europe is offering three new structured products as it gears up for significant expansion in the UK in 2011.

Ian Lowes, of Lowes Financial Management, discusses why advisers who are unconvinced by structured products should reconsider their position.

NatWest International Personal Banking (IPB) has launched the fifth Navigator International Structured Deposit Account, which is designed to capture growth in bull and bear markets.

Barclays Wealth has reissued its flagship structured deposit aimed at those seeking an alternative to traditional deposit accounts.

Investments generally carry two key risks; systematic and unsystematic. Systematic risk is usually referred to as market risk or un-diversifiable risk and is risk that is inherent in all market related investments and cannot be removed or mitigated.

In the latest Interactive Financial Adviser debate, our panelists from Investec, Standard & Poor's and Morgan Stanley discussed Structured Products.

Ian Lowes from Lowes Financial Management says it is time for a mind-shift on structured investments.