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what is indirect investment
for example retail clients who aren’t allowed to trade in derivatives directly
what are the two main routes of indirect investment
accounts that are discretionally managed
pools/funds like CISs
the pools/funds are more likely to be…
…unregulated, since we r dealing with derivatives here so they might be derivatives based funds
3 features of the investment style of derivatives based funds
speculative
guaranteed
synthetic
speculative
highly geared, high risk but high potential returns
guaranteed
exposure to a market with a ‘capital guarantee’ (eg. buying a bond and a call so the money isn’t just cash)
synthetic
designed to replicate the performance of an index