The Tempo Long Income Plan

Few savers and investors seeking income will need (or welcome!) me explaining that interest rates are on the floor and returns on cash are negligible!

Highlighting the plight for savers and investors looking for income, National Savings & Investments rates are now virtually zero and deposit rates available are similarly negligible.

At the same time, despite some recent increases, yields from fixed income / bonds are also very low, in many areas of the global bond market. And rising yields on bonds go hand in hand with falls in prices. As a result, many professional advisers and investors are currently viewing fixed income as an asset class offering an asymmetric risk / return profile … more neatly and succinctly summed up as ‘return free’ risk’?!

Understandably, many clients may currently be feeling like they are ‘caught between rocks and hard places’, in the search for investments offering the potential for viable levels of future income with attractive risk / return profiles.

Question: How can you improve on the rates available on savings products, the yields available on fixed income / bonds, and the income available via equity income funds?  Put more simply, if you want income, what’s currently offering attractive income?

Answer: Consider investing in the ground-breaking Tempo Long Income Plan!!

Tempo has now launched Issue 22 of its product suite.

You can find a summary of the Long Income Plan and links to the full details below, including details of comparable products and our analysis of the potential returns …

The end of term barrier level for the Long Income Plan is set at 50% (allowing a 50% fall) over the next decade: the lowest barrier level for any capital at risk income product currently available!

The Long Income Plan offers two options, each offering the potential for fixed income, payable quarterly, based on defensive conditions, with an innovative memory feature.

In a ‘lower and slower for (much?) longer’ environment, we certainly think that the Long Income Plan presents a viable option and potential solution for professionally advised savers and investors seeking income.

As always, please see the full plan literature for full details of the plan and the features, terms and conditions, including the risks.

Demand for Tempo’s plans has been very high recently, so please contact us swiftly if investing is of interest.

Tempo’s Long Income Plan provides two investment options, each offering the potential for regular fixed income, payable quarterly, based on a choice of defensive conditions, with an innovative memory feature, and opportunities for automatic early maturity from the 3rd anniversary.

The potential income for each option of Tempo’s LIP is:

LIP1 is designed to pay income of 3.55% p.a., if the FTSE 100 EWFD is at or above 50% of its start level, allowing the index to fall by 50%, with the benefit of the memory feature.

LIP2 is designed to pay income of 5.00% p.a., if the FTSE 100 EWFD is at or above 80% of its start level, allowing the index to fall by 20%, with the benefit of the memory feature.

The plan’s unique ‘memory feature’ is really compelling.

If a quarterly income payment is missed, due to the level of the FTSE 100 EWFD on a quarterly income date, the plan remembers the missed payment, which can potentially be generated on a future quarterly income date.

On the next quarterly income date at which the FTSE 100 EWFD closes at or above the level needed for the option(s) chosen, any missed income payments will be generated, together with the income payment due for that quarter!

What a great feature! If you think that the index level can be expected to be at or above 50% for LIP1 or 80% for LIP2, in a decade, then the plan can be expected to pay each and every coupon for the decade, unless it kicks-out earlier!

In a ‘lower and slower for (much!) longer’ environment, we believe that the Tempo Long Income Plan options present viable options and potential solutions for savers and investors seeking income.

The following section provides brief details of comparable products and our analysis of the potential returns on offer currently (as at 16.06.21)

INCOME PRODUCTS

TEMPO LIP …

There are currently 3 available single index income products available., including Tempo’s LIP1 and LIP2!

> Tempo’s LIP1 offers 3.55% p.a., which allows for an index* fall of 50%, with the memory feature

> Tempo’s LIP2 offers 45.00% p.a., which allows for an index* fall of 20%, with the memory feature

> Re comparable products, the other single index product (which is linked to the FTSE 100) offers 4.5% p.a.  It has a higher end of term barrier level (which is set at 65%) than Tempo’s LIP (which is set at 50%).  The other product has a higher income condition (set at 80%) than Tempo’s LIP1 (which is set at 50%), and the same as Tempo’s LIP2 (which is also set at 80%).  The other income product does not include a memory feature.

No other income products have income conditions as low as Tempo’s LIP1 or have such a low end of term barrier level as Tempo’s LIP1 and LIP2.

*Comparisons to other products is based on analysis of all products in the market as at 19.07.21, using FVC research reports, comparing potential returns and product features. It should be noted that the Tempo plans use an equal weight, fixed dividend version of the FTSE 100, known as the FTSE 100 EWFD. This was developed by FTSE Russell specifically with the aim of helping investment banks provide better terms on structured products. The FTSE 100 EWFD will perform differently to the FTSE 100, due to the equal weighting and the fixed dividend approach. This means that the returns from plans linked to it might be higher or lower than the returns from a similar plan linked to the FTSE 100. Please also see the section below with further important information regarding the FTSE 100 EWFD.

Tempo’s plans come with their fabulous pledge ‘Stated terms or better‘.

This unique pledge allows Tempo to increase the terms of a plan above those stated in brochures, if the stock market and other factors during an offer period mean that they can do so.

For example, while the Long Income Plan brochure details option 1 as offering 3.55% pa, if stock market movement and other factors mean that Tempo can increase this further during the offer period, the actual terms may be increased to, say, 4.00% p.a., which would be confirmed following the start date.

What’s not to love about this great feature, which only Tempo offers!

As we’ve explained previously, Tempo have drawn on strong team knowledge of indexation and a research-based approach to index selection, with their plans using an equal weight, fixed dividend version of the FTSE 100, known as the FTSE 100 EWFD.

The FTSE 100 EWFD was developed by FTSE Russell specifically with the aim of helping investment banks offer improved terms (e.g. lower end of term barriers; lower conditions for generating positive returns; and higher potential returns) on structured products. Société Générale have an exclusive license with FTSE Russell to use the FTSE 100 EWFD. And Tempo have agreed exclusivity to use the index in their plans with Société Générale

However, it should be noted that the FTSE 100 EWFD will perform differently to the FTSE 100, due to the equal weighting and fixed dividend. This means that the returns from plans linked to it might be higher or lower than the returns from a similar product linked to the FTSE 100.

Neither equally weighted nor market capitalisation weighted indexes are better or worse than the other. Each offers a different approach and has different merits: risks and returns will be different for each and will depend on the future stock market environment and the performance of the companies in each index.

While the fixed dividend can help provide higher potential returns or lower risks for structured products, it can affect the level of the FTSE 100 EWFD negatively, when the fixed dividend is higher than the level of dividends being paid by companies in the index.

Information about the FTSE 100 EWFD can be found in the plan brochures.

You can find the level of the FTSE 100 EWFD by visiting the ft.com website: https://markets.ft.com/data and using the symbol ‘GPSOC002:FSI’.

Tempo’s products are described as ‘deliberately defensive’, meaning that they are all designed so that they can generate some or all of their returns without requiring the market index which they are linked to, to rise, with a defined level of protection should the market index fall.

Tempo’s products benefit from the firm’s operational strength and rigorous approach to governance, are backed by strong issuers / counterparties, and are based on a single index, with a deep end-of-term barrier.

These are the Tempo hallmarks.

We think this approach has real merits and can add real value for investors in balanced and diversified portfolios, in the current market environment.

As with all forms of investment there are risks involved. These plans do not guarantee to repay the money invested. The potential returns of the plans and repaying the money invested are linked to the level of the stock market and also depend on the financial stability of the issuer and counterparty bank.

Past performance is not a guide to future performance and may not be repeated. Investment involves risk. The performance data does not take account of the commissions and costs incurred on the issue and redemption of shares. The value of investments and the income from them may go down as well as up and investors may not get back any of the amount originally invested. Because of this, an investor is not certain to make a profit on an investment and may lose money. Exchange rate changes may cause the value of overseas investments to rise or fall.

As always, the recommendation and common-sense approach is to consider product solutions as a portfolio, never over-exposing oneself to a point of financial pain and suffering liquidity or counterparty over exposure.

Please ensure that you view the plan documents for full details of the features and the risks.

Tempo’s products can only be accessed with advice.

The promotion of the plans does not constitute ‘advice’ to invest. Advice is always specific to an individual investor’s circumstances and needs, following the process of ‘know your customer’, with the aim of ensuring that any product is suitable for an investor.

TO FIND OUT MORE

To access the literature for these products:

Click here – https://bestpricefs.co.uk/tempo-structured-products/

Demand for the Tempo products is expected to be high.

We would suggest early contact if you are interested to invest in Issue 22, in order to try to ensure availability and access.

Please contact us to discuss any aspect of these products.

Best Regards.