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Our Structured Product Blog is intended exclusively for the use of Professional Financial Advisers; the content within it should not be distributed to clients or relied upon to make investment decisions.

Our Structured Products Blog features structured product related articles from our Insights and Opportunities documents, as well as discussion pieces from Fernando Gasca and our team of structured products experts.

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Using Structured Products as a source of Smart Beta

29.03.12Category:Press ReleaseAuthor:Fernando Gasca

After the big stock market rally in the first months of this year, we are now getting closer to the end of the tax year and, with this in mind, many investors are considering what to do with their annual ISA allowance and looking at the different options available.

Article published in Structured Product Review, March 2012

Capital Protection in Turbulent Times

19.03.12Category:Press ReleaseAuthor:Jonathan Banks

In this low interest rate environment IFAs are looking for alternatives for their client’s portfolios to the savings rates currently on offer.

Article published in PPR magazine, February 2012.

The FTSE100: Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication

28.02.12Category:GeneralAuthor:Fernando Gasca

An article prepared for Structured Product Review on 15th February 2012

Structured Products - Too Good to be True?

30.01.12Category:Press ReleaseAuthor:Fernando Gasca

Investors unfamiliar with structured product propositions can view them as ‘too good to be true’. How can IFAs respond to that?

Article published in PPR magazine, January 2012 edition 26.01.2012.

Structured Deposits: The way towards Asymmetric Returns

11.01.12Category:GeneralAuthor:Fernando Gasca

It is still a widely held belief amongst investors that the stock market should provide a no-lose solution in the long-term.  Unfortunately, the experience of the past few years has forced this assumptions to be re-evaluated and the focus is now on a more realistic view where we must weigh up the different options.

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