Head-to-Head: Structured products vs absolute return funds

Which product is the best choice?

In the first of a new series, Lauren Mason pits two managers against each other to make their case on the top talking points and products of the industry.

Kicking off this series are Ian Lowes and Adrian Lowcock, making the case for structured products and absolute return funds respectively. Structured products By Ian Lowes, managing director of Lowes Financial Management It is easy for investors to identify how different structured products will perform; it is part of their design. They give investors an array of pre-defined outcomes at defined dates in defined market circumstances.  Of course, absolute return funds claim to do this too - provide a defined, or at least positive - return over a certain market period.  Funds wi...