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Product Innovations and the launch of Asset.tv

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FVC FORUM:

Bringing structured products to life

Future Value Consultants (FVC), analysts and ratings consultants to the structured products industry, have released the first in a series of in depth video interviews in conjunction with Asset.tv – the

“FVC FORUM”

The ‘FVC Forum’ is available to professional advisers online at www.futurevc.co.uk/forum and as a CD presentation, with leading figures from the structured product industry commenting on the latest product initiatives and industry developments.

Contributors to the FVC Forum include:

  • Andrew Brogden,

    Abbey

  • Robert Addison,

    Bespoke Financial Consulting

  • James Jacklin,

    Man Investments

  • David Hazelton,

    Dexia

  • David Barclay-Miller,

    Product Innovations Limited

Tim Mortimer, Managing Director of Future Value Consultants, commented:

“Structured products are often regarded as complex. I see the FVC forum becoming an invaluable addition to our research and ratings service. With the Forum we have an opportunity to lift the lid and help improve the overall evaluation for financial advisers by bringing the industry and products to life through a series of insightful and digestible interviews.”

Craig Walton, Managing Director Asset.tv, commented:

“Working with FVC we have been able to bring to life a number of complex issues in a way only possible in a TV format. Asset.tv viewers demand concise and relevant information without the spin which is precisely what the FVC Forum delivers”

For further information, please contact:

Craig Walton

Managing Director

Asset.tv 01582 764000

Dr. Tim Mortimer 020 8334 1146

Managing Director

Future Value Consultants

Editors Note

Future Value Consultants (FVC)

is a company specialising in structured products and derivatives strategies. Founded in 1998, it provides consultancy, analytics and research to many financial institutions in the UK.

Through its market leading research service (www.futurevc.co.uk/research)

FVC

has provided definitive detailed analysis of UK structured products since 1999, rating over 400 products for a userbase of over 3500 IFA and other users. With a combination of an in depth knowledge of the market, reliable data sources and proprietary cutting edge and accurate pricing models.

FVC

also provides a range of services to its institutional clients. These include independent valuations of derivative backed products, the innovative analytics system Datapricer, product design, model auditing and risk management services.

Asset.tv

is the investment industry’s broadcast channel. The Asset.tv Private Network delivers analyst-quality interviews and information from the industry’s leading investment managers around the world, direct to the dedicated screens of investment professionals controlling 80 % of the UK’s retail fund sales.

A further 4,000 investment professionals in the UK and worldwide are now registered with Asset.tv’s web based fund manager video library

Asset.tv

is also the UK’s leading producer of in-house bespoke TV channels for investment adviser and stock broking firms.

Asset.tv

is fully interactive and archived, allowing professionals to view interviews at time of broadcast and subsequently at leisure, or selecting only those parts of an interview which are of most interest.