SructuredProductsReview.com enhances site with maturities data

StructuredProductReview.com, the comparison site run by Lowes Financial Management, is to start issuing regular maturity value data on structured products with the aim of making the sector more transparent.

It wants to draw a line under the misnomer that structured product maturity data is not available.

The free-to-use research and education website, designed for the IFA market by IFAs, provides access to details of available products, side-by-side comparison of contracts, alongside reviews, analysis, ‘Preferred Product’ selections, and speedy literature ordering from providers.

Published details of maturities will include the top and bottom performing products as held on the Lowes database, alongside other notable plans which have matured within the past two months, with relevant commentary. This data will be published on a regular basis.

Ian Lowes, managing director of Lowes Financial Management, said: “As a company Lowes has been maintaining a database of structured product information since 2000, and providing information on their maturities when they have fallen due. The data is available on StructuredProductReview.com for access by all IFAs when conducting their research.

“There have been reports in the media suggesting that maturities data is not widely disclosed. Since the data is available on StructuredProductReview.com we felt we should make it more visible, to correct these reports and to illustrate the kinds of returns that are being achieved for investors using structured products.”

On the website the Maturities section holds performance data of the products held on the StructuredProductReview.com database that have matured over the past two months, will mature during the next two months or, in the case of kick out plans, may mature within the next two months. The Product Archive section also provides access to data going back 11 years.

Lowes added: “We believe  the structured products sector has suffered as a result of a significant amount of misinformation and a lack of understanding.

“IFAs’ judgement has been clouded by the propagation of myths by commentators who simply do not understand the products and condemn the sector without being fully aware of the market that they are criticising.”