FTAdviser latest:Barclays Wealth launches pair of Defined Returns plans

Story by: Jim Robinson, Investment Adviser

Barclays Wealth has launched two new Defined Returns plans, available from 1 October.

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 06.10.2008
  • Published in: Investments

Blue Sky defends structured product

Accelerated Recovery Plan breached capital protection barriers last week

  • Date published: 06.10.2008

Insight claims investment exposure secure

Insight Investment's multi-manager team has said its investment banking exposure is secure after putting a quarter of its £435.7m Diversified Target Return fund in structured notes

  • Date published: 06.10.2008

Investor rights group launches legal action on Lehman products

Brussels-based investor rights group Deminor is launching legal action on behalf of people who lost money from securities issued by Lehman Brothers.

  • Date published: 03.10.2008

Quantum appoints Tully as sales manager

Specialist investment manager Quantum Asset Management has appointed Tristan Tully as sales manager and promoted Neville Godley to head of distribution, with immediate effect.

  • Date published: 29.09.2008

Zurich expands its green business fund

Zurich announced the latest tranche of its Green Guaranteed Account, which offers financial intermediaries a guaranteed account linked to the green business sector.

  • Date published: 29.09.2008

Advisers seduced by new products

Many advisers with limited investment experience do not fully understand the risks of increasingly sophisticated products, according to Lawrence House Fund Managers.

  • Date published: 29.09.2008

Crunch will expose true advisers

Easy reliance on structured products by execution-only advisers 'will reflect badly' on whole sector, claims AWD

  • Date published: 25.09.2008

IFA Reaction: Structured products

The IMA's warning to investors last week over the transparency of some structured products has led to a welter of complaints from the industry. Imran Khan asked seven leading IFAs about the vehicles

  • Date published: 22.09.2008

Advisers up calls for greater transparency

Structured product providers face increased pressure to reveal their counterparties after financial advisers raised concerns about plans backed by Lehman Brothers and AIG.

  • Date published: 22.09.2008

Features

Going for the safe option

With structured product providers always having had their work cut out persuading IFAs of their credibility, one hiccup could indicate the end of the relationship with the client

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  • Date published: 06.10.2008

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Better suited to the pros

The investors' guide to what to many seems a nebulous term

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  • Date published: 06.10.2008

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Investors vote with their feet

Despite the IMA's recent criticims of structured investments investors are increasingly attracted to them

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  • Date published: 06.10.2008

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