Advisers tread carefully into structured product market

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The retail structured products market is growing strongly and looks set to develop further, but advisers still have a number of concerns about these vehicles

An HSBC and Trustnet Adviser survey, published in September, suggests 88% of advisers will maintain their use of structured products and that 40% anticipate an increase in their usage. This follows a Future Value Consultants survey in November 2004, which found 63% of intermediaries expected to sell the same number of products over 2005 and 26% expect to sell more. These findings are backed up by the recent strong growth of the structured retail product market, which providers such as Jim Goddard-Jones, head of third-party distribution at Bristol & West, believe will continue to grow in po...