Continuing Professional Development
Risk, finance & treasury
Compliance & audit

Structured investment products: how do they work, and what is their added value?

Understand how structured products generate value and what they mean for investors, issuers, and portfolios alike. You gain practical insight into valuation, risk, and regulation—so you can assess these instruments with clarity and confidence.
Advanced
In class training
Start date
Start date
22-10-2025
Member price
€550
Members €550
Non-members €650
BZB €550
CPD Hours General Specific
Bank 6h
Compliance 6h
  • For those who wish to go beyond the basics
  • Learn in a group, in a motivating and targeted way
  • Deepen your knowledge and obtain recognized continuing professional development hours
Objective

An education with impact

Structured investment products have entered many retail investor portfolios. It is therefore important to have a good understanding of how structured investments work. The course aims to contribute to a better knowledge of these popular investment products. Particular attention is paid to recent legislative initiatives on transparency and investor protection.

This course aims to:

  • understand the essence of structured investment products in terms of valuation, hedging, internal risk management;
  • view structured products from a investor’s perspective, from the distributor's or issuer's point of view and in a portfolio context;
  • frame the various (new) regulatory concepts around structured products and assess their relevance at the product manufacturing as well as at the point-of-sale.
     
Target audience

This training is for

This training course can be followed by multiple target groups:

  • compliance and legal officers;
  • risk officers;
  • team members dealing with retail product information & development;
  • product developers;
  • portfolio managers and investment advisers;
  • ...
     
Contents and practical information

Step by step through the training process

CONTENT

Part I:

  • Where do structured investment products figure in the "savings and investment" landscape?
  • How are structured investment products composed?
  • How is the value of structured investment products determined?
     

Part II:

  • How can we distinguish the different pay-offs of structured investment products? Explanation using recent examples from various Belgian distributors and issuers.
  • Recent regulatory evolutions (MiFID2, PRIIPS in its national implementation, Royal Marketing Decree), explained with the knowledge from this training and on the basis of examples.
     

 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Duration: 1 day of training (6 class hours)
  • Hours: 09:00 to 17:00
  • Location: Febelfin Academy: Phoenix building, Koning Albert II-laan/Boulevard du Roi Albert II 19, 1210 Brussels
  • Language: This training will be given in English
Available dates

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Structured investment products: how do they work, and what is their added value?
09:00
17:00
Pricing

Rates and benefits

Member price
€550
Members €550
Non-members €650
BZB €550

* Are you entitled to compensation or subsidies?
* Price: service provided as part of continuing vocational training, VAT exempt

Teachers

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Learning format

Our guidance throughout the learning process

You follow a ‘Classroom training’ face-to-face in a group. You, the other participants and the teacher are all present in the same classroom at an agreed time. There is an opportunity for interaction and feedback, both from the participants to the teacher and vice versa. The teaching material consists as a basis of a presentation via the MyFA learning platform, supplemented with various other items (such as digital syllabus, presentation, audiovisual fragments, etc.).



Training material:

  • PowerPoint presentation
Advanced
In class training
Start date
Start date
22-10-2025
Member price
€550
Members €550
Non-members €650
BZB €550
CPD Hours General Specific
Bank 6h
Compliance 6h
  • For those who wish to go beyond the basics
  • Learn in a group, in a motivating and targeted way
  • Deepen your knowledge and obtain recognized continuing professional development hours
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