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SG launches structured agriculture note

Societe Generale's latest structured note confounds the trend towards simple products.
July 10, 2008
One of the features of the current market has been a return to basics by structured products providers û keeping payoffs simple and focusing on the underlying, typically in the form of index-tracking products with a strong theme such as commodities, the environment or China.

Societe Generale, however, has just launched a structured note in Hong Kong that captures one of the hottest themes of the moment û agriculture û and overlays it with some French jiggery pokery. The Booster Notes are linked to a basket of stocks and have a quarterly potential coupon subject to a so-called booster mechanism that can pay out a maximum of 10% a year. The notes also offer quarterly...
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