The balance between good and evil: product innovation and sensible advice

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Structured products and hedge funds are both areas of tremendous innovation, but they are also areas...

Structured products and hedge funds are both areas of tremendous innovation, but they are also areas with potential for great risk to consumers where regulators are, quite rightly, focusing a considerable amount of time and effort. But where is the balance between the role of the regulator to safeguard the investor and the role of the intermediary to offer clients access to a greater range of products that meet their needs in a changing and challenging financial environment? Many intermediaries are being hampered in their ability to advise clients through fear of the regulator and the Fin...