The third way

The risk/reward profile of most investors is pretty similar. They would like to take very little ris...

The risk/reward profile of most investors is pretty similar. They would like to take very little risk with their investments - ideally none. But they would like to get a thumping big return please. Naturally every investor has to compromise, and go down the route of cash for safety or market-linked assets for potential returns. But somewhere within the risk/reward equation there is a third way - structured products. There is a special breed of these for cautious investors, known as capital-protected structured products. They tend to offer a percentage of any increase in a particular index...