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The first product is called HSBC Buffered Index Note and the second is called HSBC Buffered Accelerated Market Participation Security. The head of the team asked you to provide an analysis of these products, with the aim to understand whether similar products could be offered to you clients. The products described in the attached brochure are relatively long term, the your team would like you to consider a maturity of at most one year for these products.

You have also been asked to investigate how these products could be offered with individual

equities as the underlying rather than the S&P $500$ index. Explain what your team has to

consider when offering these products for underlyings such as IBM, Microsoft or Tesla.