Barclays Wealth

David Brunning, director of IFA Brunning Newman Houghton (BNH), says the firm is seriously considering launching a separate structured products business to market the vehicles to clients without advice.

Barclays Wealth is reissuing the US and UK versions of its Super Tracker investment strategy for investors predicting an elongated U-shaped recovery.

At first glance the UK structured product world has taken another serious blow due to the various issues surrounding the collapse of Keydata. But are structured products to blame?

Two men have pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a Barclays Wealth executive during a fight after a night out in Norwich.

Barclays Wealth has enhanced the terms of its latest Defined Returns Plan (Capital Protection) product, offering improved returns on two of its three options.

Structured products have never been more popular. But their increasingly high profile has not dispelled many of the myths that continue to cloud the way some investors - and advisers - perceive them.

The second half of 2008 was a real turning point for structured products (which I will henceforth refer to as 'protected investments' - surely the most appropriate name for this particular product genre given the protection they have provided to investors...

Barclays Wealth has launched a new structured product plan which has the ability to protect investor capital even if the FTSE 100 dives under 50% from its starting level.

Barclays Wealth is closing its Defined Returns Plan two weeks early but issuing a replacement series following investor demand.

Some weeks ago I wrote about what we at Barclays call the happiness curve. The basic premise is that investors are thrilled when they are making money on their investments, but disproportionately despondent when they endure a small loss.