I always tell people to Google “structured notes” to see what comes up. The first page of search results is filled with FINRA warnings, stories of complexity, high fees and a lack of liquidity and ...

Structured investments, also known as structured notes, are a combination of a bond, which can provide downside protection, and a derivative, which provides leveraged upside benefits, allowing ...

Structured Notes and Buffer funds are sleep-well-at-night products designed to protect investors from market drops. Brokers and nervous investors love them, despite their complexity and fees. Talk to ...

Investors who want a trifecta of market exposure, decent upside and protection from losses might take a closer look at structured notes. These fixed income securities are a relatively new type of ...

The popularity of structured products associated with the S&P 500 Futures Excess Return Index, often denoted by the ticker SPXFP, has skyrocketed. Last year, issuance increased by 48% to $3.5 billion, ...

Question: We have over $500,000 invested with a certified financial planner (CFP) we like — most of it in very safe bonds to generate a little income. We are also into structured notes that generate ...

The long and largely uneventful life of the XIV – the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term exchange-traded note (ETN) – and its sudden and fiery end at the start of February amid surging US ...