Capital protected products have the advantage of allowing investors a preview of the level of risk and potential returns achieved by their chosen product, explains Jeremy Beckwith
The market for capital protected products has expanded significantly in recent times in response to investors becoming more risk averse during the bear market - the result of seeing significant losses to their equity investments during that time. This even resulted in some high profile pension funds making asset allocation moves to fixed income investments, and created demand for a new breed of product that could provide capital protection. Today, the most visible trend in the capital protected product market is their ready availability in the retail marketplace. High street banks and ev...
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