Structured products limp back into favour

Sales are back to record levels in Korea and could even make a return in Hong Kong and Singapore.

<div style="text-align: left;"> The last wave of risky financial products led to years of protests in Hong Kong and elsewhere </div>

Nick Ferguson

May 30, 2013

Derivatives have copped a lot of flak since the global financial crisis. Retail investors in particular have turned their backs on structured instruments such as accumulators, which many now see as unsafe, deceptive and complicated.

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