Structured Products

Barclays Wealth has launched an online guide to structured products to enhance advisers' understanding of these complex investments.

Cater Allen Private Bank has launched Selected UK Banking Plan - Issue 2, providing an opportunity to participate in the performance of four of the UK's leading banking stocks with 100 per cent capital protection at maturity.

Quantum Asset Management (formally DDQ) has launched three new structured products offering investors exposure to energy commodities and gold.

Barclays Wealth is set to launch two Defined Returns plans designed to offer investors in unprotected equities greater security in a turbulent market.

Quantum Asset Management has appointed Tristan Tully as sales manager and Neville Godley to head of distribution.

Zurich has opened the latest tranche of its Green Guaranteed Account.

Encashments have been suspended at present in the NDF Administration(NDFA) and DRL structured products linked to Lehman Brothers, it was announced today.

Advisers and product providers have lambasted the structured products providers underwritten by Lehman Brothers for collaborating with such low-rated banks, with questions being cast over the future of counterparties.

London & Capital is rolling out the second tranche of its capital-protected Multi Asset Rainbow Plan.

IMA chairman Robert Jenkins has reignited the trade body's attack against structured products, questioning whether regulators are "asleep" on tackling the industry.