FVC review: Goldman launches leveraged equity basket note

Goldman Sachs has launched a leveraged note that gives weighted exposure to a basket of global equity benchmarks, with a buffer mechanism providing limited downside protection to investors’ capital

Goldman Sachs headquarters

Goldman Sachs is offering US investors a leveraged return note linked to a basket of global equity benchmarks. The product has a relatively short investment term of two years and offers a participation rate of 150% of the growth in the underlying, subject to a cap on returns of 20.1%.

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1. A potential return of 1.5 times the growth in the basket up to a maximum of 20.1% (in addition to the principal amount). The maximum return is therefore equivalent to approximately 9.59% (compounded)