Every quarter, Strike Magazine provides you with timely and thought-provoking information about the following products available now to UK investors:

Covered Warrants

Covered warrants offer investors geared exposure to a wide range of underlyings - from single stocks, to indices, currencies and even commodities. With covered warrants, investors can take a long or a short view on their chosen underlying - so they can benefit from bull or bear markets. Unlike other geared investments like futures, covered warrants offer unlimited upside with limited losses and no margin calls. Covered warrants are listed on the London Stock Exchange and traded like a share (through your broker) and incur no stamp duty.
www.sgwarrants.co.uk

Listed CFDs

Listed Contracts for Difference (Listed CFDs) are powerful new investment tools. They combine the fl exibility of a CFD with the price transparency of a London Stock Exchange listing. Most importantly, Listed CFDs are lower risk products than traditional CFDs as each Listed CFD has an embedded guaranteed stoploss at no extra cost, which puts you fully in control of your maximum possible loss at all times.
Société Générale is the leading listed CFD issuer with CFDs based on FTSE 100 stocks in the UK as well as on the FTSE 100 and 250 indices. You trade Listed CFDs through your present stockbroker but can find more information at www.listedcfds.com

Listed Structured Products

Listed Structured Products are fl exible investment tools designed to suit particular investment objectives and risk profiles in a specifi c market context. One example is the Accelerator, a Listed Structured Product providing enhanced upside participation in the performance of a given index with no worse than market risk - suitable for a bullish investor looking for capital growth. Other Listed Structured Products may be suited for bearish investors, feature coupons and/or capital protection. All Listed Structured Products feature live intraday 2-way pricing on the LSE. www.sglistedproducts.co.uk

Lyxor Exchange Traded Funds (ETF)

Lyxor ETFs are passively-managed index tracking funds listed on leading stock exchanges around the world, including the LSE. They offer investors access to a whole market through the purchase of one share and a big advantage that they have over mutual funds is that they are traded continuously, rather than having just one daily price fi xing. Through Lyxor ETFs investors can get easy and transparent exposure to established benchmarks, emerging market indices or alternative asset classes like commodities or private equity. www.lyxoretf.co.uk