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Getting to grips with Consumer Duty

The UK regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is at an advanced stage of implementing its new “Consumer Duty” directive. This...
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FANG is dead. Long live MAANG

Financial commentators love themes, they love labels and they love acronyms. One of most prevalent examples in the investment world in...
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Altiplano, Himalaya and Podium payoffs

Structured products have played an important role in providing income and protected solutions for investors for many decades. Three...
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PRIIPs - here we go again

The European PRIIPs regulation is one of the most ambitious and wide-ranging initiatives in investor protection ever seen. It was...
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Buying on the market dip

The last three years have seen persistent volatility in equity markets worldwide. As investors try to digest and cope with the...
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The return of capital protected products

Across all major currencies there has been a sharp increase in interest rates in 2022. This has mostly been caused by inflationary...
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Index or Basket?

Many retail structured products are linked to a single equity index for direct exposure to a country, region or sector. Products...
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Choosing investment maturity

Structured products generally have a fixed maturity and the choice of the length of the investment when selecting a structured product...
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Market timing with the Lookback

The lookback construction is one of the longest standing concepts in structured products. It has a rich history and is still in use...
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UK structured product issuance in 2022

The UK Structured product market has shown strong growth in the last two years as world economies and stock markets have recovered from...
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