Structured Products

HSBC Global Markets has launched two new capital protected plans targeted at UK IFAs.

Blue Sky Asset Management (BSAM) has launched its Asset Allocation Accelerated Growth Plan III which it believes will be attractive at the onset of bear markets.

Alaric Gordon, chief executive officer of Mercater Capital Management, is concerned that structured products and, more particularly the marketing of them, seem to suggest that the investor can have the reward without the risk.

Barclays Wealth has launched a free guide to structured products for financial advisers.

Barclays Wealth has rolled out a range of capital-protected investments with enhanced rates on its previous offerings.

BNP Paribas has launched its Privalto range of capital-protected OEIC funds to UK advisers.

Nervous UK investors are piling into structured products, in an effort to avoid the kinds of losses many sustained on the stock and mutual funds markets last year.

Abbey is set to launch two guaranteed investment products linked to the FTSE 100.

Premier Asset Management has launched the UK Growth Plan (PLE39), a six year plan linked to the FTSE 100 index.

Leading structured products providers are planning to create an independent comparative sector that can offer financial advisers direct comparisons between structured products and unit trust offerings.