structured products

GOLF SPECIAL

Take up of structured products within the UK is disproportionately low compared with the US and Europe in part because of dogma within the adviser community, according to one investment analyst.

NatWest International Personal Banking (IPB) has launched a four and half year, fixed rate, structured deposit account called Equilibrium Issue 3.

Consumer group Which? has listed absolute return funds and task-based income protection cover among a list of 'financial products to avoid'.

Barclays has launched a structured products service allowing financial advisers to tweak its product suite to suit the needs of clients.

Structured products specialists, Gilliat Financial Solutions, has launched its first products aimed at the offshore market.

The FSA has stressed firms need to have robust controls and transparent product approval methods when developing retail structured products.

FIVE THINGS

In today's Retail Conduct Risk Outlook the Financial Services Authority (FSA) identified the five products it feels pose the greatest mis-selling risk to consumers.

In this Professional Adviser debate, our panelists from Aviva Investors, Investec Structured Products and Morgan Stanley discussed Structured Products.