Structured Products
 

Structured Products


Background

Structured products are appearing with increasing frequency as Retail Investment products (e.g. Guaranteed Investment Bonds or Precipice Bonds) as well as in a more sophisticated version, in pension, life and other institutional portfolios.

 

This course gives a good understanding of this class of products assuming only a reasonable basic securities knowledge (equities and fixed income).

 


Delegates

·        Fund Managers with no knowledge of this area

·        Stockbrokers

·        Private Bankers

·        Back & Middle Office staff

·        IT staff

·        Lawyers and Accountants (CPE/CPD credits)

·        Commercial Bankers involved with retail investments

·        IFAs

  •   Investment Bankers interested in adding these products to their own range  of products

 


Content

 

Market Overview

·Growth of market

·Market Participants & Players

·Why SP are popular with investors

·Growth v. income products

·Mis-selling (FSA CP188 and SCARP’s, Lloyds TSB and other precipice Bonds)

 

Background

·Basic product - growth and income

·Principal protection – how is it done?

·Participation – how is it done?

·High yields - how are they achieved?

 

Investors

·Retail

·HNWI

·Corporate

 

Popular Asset Classes

 

·Equity (index, basket, single stocks)

·Interest Rates, FX, Gold

·Inflation, house prices

·Unit Trusts (principal protected ISA’s)

·Multi asset (e.g. Britannia Building Society’s Footsie/Gold/Halifax house prices)

 

Basics of Pricing

 

·Cost of principal protection

·Cost of Participation

·Cost of income option

 

Non vanilla products

 

·Capped calls, Knock outs, Cliquets

·Triggers, Dual currency deposits, corridors

·‘Precipice bonds’

·Exotic products (Comets, Himalayas, Altiplano etc).

 

 

 




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Duration 1 day
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