Structured products: it pays to keep it simple

If you don't understand how a financial product works, you're better off steering well clear. Here's why.

We have warned for years about the perils of buying complex structured' products that promise one thing but usually end up delivering another. Sure enough, as Dan Hyde warns on Thisismoney.co.uk, it turns out that many of these products have done just that.

"Cautious savers who have been lured into gambling their money on fiendishly complicated stockmarket investments have lost out on thousands of pounds due to poor performance and sales commission."

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