The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has announced ain industry-wide review of the sale of so called structured products. This has come on the back of an FSA review of a small number of adviser firms where they found a large percentage had not given suitable advice in their view.Structured products are also referred to as protected investments. They have been defined as investment products that deliver a known return for given investment circumstances. The problem is that some of the companies who promised that known return have been unable to deliver it.

IFA firms such as ours will be wanting to make sure that we have access to some good research for giving future advice on structured products. In addition we will be wanting to get hold of sufficient information to enable us to carry out a thorough investigation into the previous advice we have given in this area.

One of the most useful websites which provides IFA firms with the in dept research that we need is www.structuredproductreview.com, which is managed by Lowes Financial Management.

Although this particular research facility is only available to IFAs and other professional advisers I am delighted to say that they have seen fit to include our recent Guide to Structured Products. This is a Guide which is freely available on our website so if you would like to get hold of a copy you can do so from www.arch-fp.co.uk/structured_products.php.

If you are concerned about an existing structured product that you own you may like to get in touch so that we can provide you will an assessment of it.