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RBS's Twister helps time investments

As traders say, the trend is your friend, and dynamic strategies such as Royal Bank of Scotland's Twister can offer ways to capitalise on these trends.

By Nick Ferguson

October 02, 2008

Making money in today's markets is a tricky proposition for most investors and this is particularly the case with structured products û many of which require the buyer to take a view on the direction of a market and then sit back with fingers crossed for six months or a year and hope that his bet was a good one.

Some products offer protection if the bet is wrong, but very few remove the need for investors to make the two most important decisions for any type of investment market timing and direction. Dynamic strategies, however, promise to take those decisions out of an investor's hands, providing a half-way house between static index products and...

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