A research report with the cutting-edge insight into the European market for structured investment products - specially commissioned to guide product distributors, providers of underlying structured products and investors.

You are provided with a detailed overview of the European market, including its development, its hottest areas, and the available products. This report helps investment banks design products according to investor needs and additionally helps product distributors to structure the investment portfolio of the investor according to their financial needs.

Discover the key developments likely to take place, how they will effect the market and use the latest market information to identify new business opportunities.  Within these pages you are offered a detailed analysis of the investment case for structured products, including pricing, marketing and  also regulatory and risk issues.

To help you assess the market the report concludes with a detailed country by country analysis of 18 European countries to help you identify:

• the structured investment products available in that country;

• the investment banks involved in structuring of these products;

• the distributors of these products;

• the investors for these products.

Provides direct feedback from the market, through a host of interviews with the major players, including: investment banks; product distributors, and regulatory bodies including the Financial Services Authority and Autorité des Marchés Financiers.

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Foreword
Preface
Research Methodology
Introduction

SECTION 1 - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1 Market Overview
2 Regulatory Framework
3 Pricing
4 Investor Classes
5 Product Types and Classification
6 Distribution and Marketing

SECTION 2 - MARKET-BY-MARKET GUIDE

7 Austria
8 Belgium
9 Czech Republic
10 Denmark
11 France
12 Germany
13 Greece
14 Ireland
15 Italy
16 Netherlands
17 Norway
18 Poland
19 Portugal
20 Spain
21 Sweden
22 Switzerland
23 United Kingdom

Index

Paul Lyon is a financial journalist based in London, who started his career with Risk magazine in 2000. He was the founding editor of Structured Products magazine, an Incisive Media title, and is a regular speaker at industry events across the world. He was educated at The University of California, Berkeley, and received his masters from the University of London.