Barclays Wealth

Barclays Wealth will launch a new range of structured products and continue to offer its Emerging Markets Optimiser to meet investors' needs for capital protection.

Barclays Wealth has entered the fixed income bond market with a new five-year product playing on the strong demand for long-dated securities.

Neptune has promoted Richard Green to the role of deputy managing director, effective from 1 November.

Barclays Wealth's fears over a backlash against structured products in the wake of Lehman Brothers' collapse have proved unfounded, with the company posting record sales in September.

The obvious place to begin this blog is with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Leaving aside the wider ramifications - I am not in a position to discuss those - the fall of Lehmans has done two things.

Barclays Wealth is set to launch two Defined Returns plans designed to offer investors in unprotected equities greater security in a turbulent market.

Barclays Wealth has launched the fourth issue of its Emerging Markets Optimiser, as investors seek alternative ways to access high growth but volatile investment areas.

Most Saturday mornings I find myself in and around Henley on Thames, ferrying the family about. Sometimes a spare thirty minutes presents itself, and I'll take the chance to have a coffee before the phone squawks and the taxi service is called back into...

Barclays Wealth is launching a three-year version of its Super Tracker to meet mounting demand for short-dated investments able to boost returns in a low growth environment.

Examine any best buy table and you will currently see a host of fixed rate savings bonds with headline rates hovering around the 7% mark. Ostensibly, this is mouth-watering stuff but once you factor in tax and inflation, you have to ask if depositors...