Incapital blasts IMA and Hargreaves over SP criticism

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Incapital Europe MD Christopher Taylor has slammed Hargreaves Lansdown and the IMA for what he claims are commercially-motivated attacks on structured products - labelling their views a "duet of diatribe".

Taylor, writing for StructurdProductReview.com, said Hargreaves Lansdown's outspoken comments on structured products are commercially motivated. He also claimed the IMA - which recently published a scathing study into the alternative investments - is simply representing the interests of providers it is paid to promote. "It is hard to know where to start in countering this latest duet of diatribe against structure products, but as with most criticism of structured products what immediately jumps out is the points made by both Peter (Hargreaves) and the IMA are sweeping generalisations tha...

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