Structured products
Gilliat offers three ways to play international markets
New internationalists
Trade of the month: Risk assessment
Trade of the month: Risk assessment
L&G blames low interest rates as it quits UK retail structured products
Legal & General exits the market following a reported decline in sales, putting an end to its distribution of Barclays-backed plans
Morgan Stanley's 2013 maturity structured products deliver healthy returns
Six Morgan Stanley retail products maturing in 2013 produced annualised returns of 11–14%, while the bank's worst-performing growth products came in flat to the market
How to capture growth in an autocallable world
Strategists are cautioning investors to look beyond autocallables and take advantage of low volatility to buy growth products. The banks have listened, engineering new solutions to capture upside. But will investors take the bait? Yakob Peterseil reports.
Structured deposits face uncertain future under UK ring-fence plans
Caught in the net
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Finra bears down on complex structured products
Topping the regulator's list of priorities for 2014 is ensuring that US brokers make adequate enquiries before offering complex products to retail investors
Riskier structured products with 60% barriers could be 'shockers' of the future, says insider
Capital-at-risk products with a 60% barrier have crept into the retail market and are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. But is the extra risk they pose appropriate for retail investors?
Video views: SP Europe award winners favour hybrids, but stay cautious on regulation
Winners from the Structured Products Europe 2013 talk about the challenges of regulation and the increasing appetite for hybrid products
UK's Tier One Capital seeks secondary structured products
Listed products are secondary nature at Tier One Capital
Biggest burden from Camp’s comprehensive tax review could fall on retail investors
After thinking they would be ignored in a broad reform of the US tax system led by David Camp, retail investors could find themselves in the firing line for phantom income tax, say bankers
Japan and Korea investors regain appetite for European equity-linked structures
European underlyings make up 70% of non-Japan uridashi issuance in 2013
Asian index providers face hurdles meeting European equivalence regime
Index providers the latest part of the financial system to have European equivalency problems
Focus Structured Solutions makes debut in UK structured products
Credit Suisse distributor launches three UK structured products with 60% European barriers
SEC's Amy Starr: we are scrutinising ETNs
ETNs pose many of the same disclosure risks as structured notes and may be the subject of future guidance, suggested the SEC’s top structured products regulator and author of last year’s letter to US banks
SEC targets ‘protected’ and ‘guaranteed’ fund names
After criticising the use of the term “principal protected” in structured notes, the SEC turns to ETFs and mutual funds that promise protection from loss in their names
Retail investors may be paying tax unnecessarily
A loophole in the UK's tax rules relating to financial advisers means investors can avoid paying VAT on certain transactions, but some advisers could be charging it nevertheless
MSCI’s Dimitris Melas discusses innovations in indexing
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Russell Indexes discusses the indexing needs of the sell side
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Ombudsman rejects Meteor structured product complaint
A couple invested in a Lehman Brothers-backed structured product will not be able to claim £165,000 back after the UK Financial Ombudsman Service rules it was not mis-sold by Meteor