Lowes: four years on, Keydata's structured products still deliver

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Advisers should not mistake Keydata the company and Keydata structured investments, writes Ian Lowes, founder of StructuredProductReview.com and managing director of Lowes Financial Management.

At the end of a recent conference on structured products a financial adviser stood up at the back of the audience and chastised the presenters because: “No-one has mentioned structured products were the reason Keydata went into administration”. To hear this raised again coming up to four years on from the event itself illustrates just how negative impressions can be perpetuated. The inference here is it was structured products that caused the failure of Keydata, which, of course, is simply not true. The failure of Keydata is once more in the spotlight with the Financial Services Co...

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