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New course available in Geneva starting Spring 2012

To become certified Swiss Structured Product Officer, please click on the link below to register:

(You will be redirected to the page of the Fund Academy, the institute being in charge of the registrations)

http://www.fund-academy.com/college/detailansicht.php?id=70

More information about this 7-day course:

Course registration paper    Detailed program   

The course will be held in French with support material in English. To bear the title, it will be necessary to pass an exam.

 

"How to Invest in Structured Products"

This website's content is based to a large degree on the book "How to Invest in Structured Products: A Guide to Investors and Asset Managers".

More information: Book Menu.

Direct link to Purchase the book: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk or Other online sites.

The book is meant mainly for investors and asset managers, but can also be useful  for junior traders or as a textbook for teachers and students. It is written in a fresh and easy style, with many intuitive illustrations, useful and timeless advice, diagrams and tables to help pinpoint the matter without math or complex formulas. It's also an ideal gift for a bank's private or institutional clients. Approx. 390 pages, English. 

"The book he publishes about structured products reflects a change in the literature, a progress . [...] Proof that the best financial books need no mathematical formulas. "

E. Garessus, "Le Temps" (02 Nov. 2009)

New! Polish translation 
Tłumaczenie na polski

 

 

Know-How

Read many product descriptions FOR FREE, learn how they are built, see their payoff diagrams, discover product variants and useful advice about what one should pay attention to when investing.

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More FREE informations about the market, what's HOT and what isn't.

You can't buy any products on this site, but you can learn a lot about the subject here. The information is unbiased. Please help the author to keep the site free of advertisements by buying the book "How to Invest in Structured Products", thank you.

 

If you have never heard about structured products, this is a good place to start. In a few paragraphs, you'll be introduced to the matter in an intuitive way that is very easy to understand.

Formal definition

Structured products are financial assets, which consist of various elemental components, combined to generate a specific risk-return profile adapted to an investor’s needs.

Very well. But for those persons who don't know what an "elemental component" or a "specific risk-return profile" is, here is a more intuitive way of saying the same...

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