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May 2008

Structured products: Keeping it simple

Investment banks are rushing to offer systematic payoffs and smart underlyings as structured notes, partly in response to investors’ growing mistrust of more complex products. But is replicating hedge fund strategies in note form as simple as they are trying to make out?




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STRUCTURED NOTE SELLERS have good reason to reconsider the types of payoffs they offer investors. The credit crisis has lifted the lid on the can of worms that was the structured credit business. It has also had the knock-on effect of making investors wary of anything bearing the tag "structured", including complex equity-linked notes, which are far removed from the world of securitization.


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