Global growth masks UK woes

A report from BNP Paribas paints a glowing picture of the global structured products market, finding that retail sales grew by $30 billion in 2005. But a look behind the headlines reveals that UK sales fell for the fourth time in five years. Daniel Sheehan takes a look at the bank's findings

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It's official: structured products provide investors with the best opportunities to tap the widest investment classes. These are the findings of French bank BNP Paribas, at any rate. BNP's annual Structured products for retail & private banking report, published last month, finds that retail investors are increasingly using structured products as the entry point into markets that are traditionally open only to high-net-worth investors.

The figures provided in the report certainly appear to back

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