That Was The Week: Psst, want to make a small fortune?

Of the 50 striking structured products Standard Bank released in South Africa last week, 12 were linked to the local natural resources benchmark, the FTSE/JSE Resources Index. It's a lot of products to release in one week in a relatively small market and it's also a pretty large percentage tied to commodities; 12 more were based on the same index provider's financial benchmark, 12 were tied to the FTSE/JSE Industrial Index, and the final 14 will base their fortunes on the index company's Africa