25% of the investment amount is placed in a 12 month high yield deposit
account. This account matures on 11th April 2012 and will return investor’s capital along with interest of 6% gross (6% AER).
75% is invested in a 3 1/2 year Quadruple and/or Double Growth Bond and is allocated to the basket which is equally weighted between each of the 25 shares.
At the end of the 3 1/2 year Term, the percentage performance (gain or loss) of each share is calculated (the increase in each share in the basket being limited to 17.5%). The average performance of the 25 shares is then calculated and this percentage will then be doubled or quadrupled to determine the Interest to be added to the capital amount secured in each bond. The Double and Quadruple Growth Bond offer 100% and 90% capital security respectively in this part ofyour investment.
In order to protect the performance of the basket from short-term volatility in stock markets towards the end of the Term, the Final Price will reflect the average price of each share on a monthly basis over the final 6 months of the Term. The effect of averaging is to protect returns in a falling market but conversely it may restrict growth in a rising market.
Neither bond suffers exposure to foreign currency hence there will be no currency risk or hedging costs.
Hi Brendan,It is because it allows them to advertise a deposit which gives a return of 6%. This catches so many people's attention but they don't understand that they are getting 6% on only 9% of their investment.
Surely discounting the actual returns to today's value would be better way of accounting for time.
Not a clue what yours would look like, if you can't explain it I really don't think you should be using it because for all I can see it is actually just wrong to say what you are saying as the results are confusing the matter further and your results have no economic reasoning, as my example above suggests.
The principle is that bundling products together like this for no reason other than to confuse investors should not be allowed.
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