How can online tools such as comparison websites help the structured product industry?
Fund buyers like centralised platforms to buy and sell units, but investors wanting to buy structured products have no such time-saving services. If they want to check performance or prices that manufacturers will pay to buy back investments before maturity, they have to do it the old fashioned way. A centralised service remains a pipe dream. Fund supermarkets and the internet have revolutionised the buying and selling of fund units. Advisers and their clients now have more access to more funds, tools and investment data than ever before. Trading in units has become commoditised, as has ...
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