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The latest Fixed Medium Term Deposit fund from Aviva offers a 5 year exposure to PTSB. The AER is 3.5% while better than what is available from others would seem very unattractive for a bank rated B+ by S&P. In fairness Aviva supplies a chart showing that PTSB's credit rating was the 14th on a...

There has been much discussion of tracker products on AAM. The arrival of a 10 year tracker from Merrion marks a completely new departure (it is linked to the Eurostoxx 50 with the capital protection provided by Societe Generale). Is it time the regulator stepped in? These products are...

If the Dolmen product is a testament to financial engineering where does that leave the [broken link removed] product? I gather that this has sold very well and it leaves me wondering what real analysis can have gone into the 'reasons why' letters given to investors by IFAs. If they really...

I came across this the other day - this has a very solid bank as counterparty(Credit Suisse) and 100% participation....so far so good. However the trick with this one is that the investor's participation in the up months is capped at 3% while that in down months can be as much as 6%. I ran...

Came across this earlier and went through the documentation.Regular kind of product but thought the use of simulated performance was between 'quite' and 'very' sharp in terms of the Consumer Protection Code. Two tables are used ,one which covers '03-'07(+90%),the other '99-'02(-20%). One...

Came across this earlier and had a look through.Pretty regular stuff except for two tables of simulated performance - one covers 31/12/02-31/12/07 (+90%),while the other covers 31/12/98-31/12/02(-20%). I would have thought it between 'quite' and 'very' sharp (in terms of the Consumer...