The UK Structured Products Association provides a voice for the retail structured products industry with the purpose of educating the investment community.
The role of the UK Structured Products Association is to engage with the media and communicate useful and educational information about structured products to the wider community.
The UK Structured Products Association will not promote individual firms, products or structured products professionals.
The UK Structured Products Association is an organisation established by leading companies that create and distribute structured products to the UK financial services market to provide a useful and responsive source of information, education and comment on structured products by promoting their contribution to effective financial planning.
The creation of the UK Structured Products Association is a unified response from the members who believe that whilst structured products form an increasingly integral part of financial planning for investors, they are sometimes misunderstood and misrepresented, and that any lack of understanding can and should be addressed.
The principal activities of the Association are:
The UK Structured Products Association is not a commercial organisation and education and research are its core activities.
The UK Structured Product Association will consider applications from leading companies that directly create and distribute structured products to UK retail investors and commit to the articles of the Association and our code of practice.
The UK Structured Product Association is affiliated with the Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) and the European Structured Investment Products Association (eusipa).