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 ...

SpiderRock Advisors and Luma Financial Technologies have partnered up to offer clients technology and analysis tools to make it easier for advisors to access structured notes along with structured ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is pressing large banks to provide investors with more accurate information about structured notes, complex securities that are often sold to wealthy individuals ...

Alternative investments do not correlate with the stock market and can produce gains when the overall market is down. Structured notes are one of the available alternative investments. These ...

Structured notes, a debt security tied to underlying assets, is poised for growth over the next year, according to a new report by the research and consulting firm Cerulli Associates. Advisors should ...

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 ...

Here is an investment that sounds just too good: Investors get 150% of the upside of the stock market but just 90% of the downside. That is the promise of structured notes issued by companies such as ...

While the vast majority of financial advisors have incorporated liquid alternative investments into their clients' portfolios, they may be ignoring one illiquid opportunity in the current environment.

NEW YORK – The Securities and Exchange Commission told five big Wall Street banks last year to improve disclosures about structured notes that are mostly sold to retail investors, and criticized use ...

At first glance, a laddered approach to structured notes or buffered ETFs may seem like a strategy to manage risk and smooth returns over time. However, the accumulation of embedded gains, increased ...