The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) has followed the lead of the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) by restricting the sale of contracts for difference (CfDs) to retail investors in and from the Netherlands. However, unlike the measures taken by Esma, AFM’s product intervention measures CfDs are permanent.

SRP asked Marcel Tak (pictured) , independent financial adviser, financial publicist and fund manager of Bufferfund, an open-ended investment fund that solely invests in structured products, and Ivan Gowan (pictured below) , chief executive of Capital.com, a platform that provides access to CfDs, about their view on the measures of the AFM, and whether they believed other structured investment products could fall victim to the regulators’ product intervention powers too. “The Nether

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