Structured Products

Credit ratings, financial strength, CDS spreads, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme...these are all terms readers will no doubt be all too familiar with.

Barclays Wealth has unveiled its latest Target Growth Plan, offering a return of 50% plus capital repayment provided the FTSE 100 has not fallen by 50% at the end of the plan's five-year term.

Structured products have never been more popular. But their increasingly high profile has not dispelled many of the myths that continue to cloud the way some investors - and advisers - perceive them.

Société Générale has issued the first in its new range of listed structured products tradable on the London Stock Exchange.

The FSA says it has no plans to launch an investigation into the mis-selling of structured products by banks, despite increasing concern investors have been misled.

Scottish Widows has launched a six year capital protected fund aimed at cautious investors looking to protect their investment in the current economic crisis.

Morgan Stanley is launching the latest tranche of its capital protected six-year structured product.

Treasury Committee chairman John McFall MP is urging the FSA to examine claims some investors were mis-sold structured products by their bank.

Treasury Committee chairman John McFall MP is urging the FSA to examine claims some investors were mis-sold structured products by their bank.

Legal & General has rolled out a triple index based capital protected plan offering the potential for 20% growth over its five year term.