Forget investing, Wall Street is a marketing and sales machine. They've developed a real stinker of a product that at first glimpse appears like the answers to your prayers but really is just one more ...

If you have a “structured note” in any of your investment portfolios, please read this commentary. If you don’t, congratulations – you’ve avoided an opaque, illiquid, costly, and tax-inefficient ...

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 ...

Cryptocurrencies often make headlines for their price swings. For example, Bitcoin fell by over 70% from its November 2021 all-time high. To manage this volatility, investors are increasingly using ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With stock market volatility likely to remain high until the COVID-19 crisis ends, many investors have become ...

Structured notes are unrated debt instruments issued by large banks which make periodic payments that depend on the performance of an underlying asset or group of assets, such as a single stock, stock ...

A question that commonly comes my way lately is, “How can I earn a higher return on my cash and CDs?” It’s a dilemma many find themselves in with the current market environment of low interest rates ...

“More people are paying attention to credit risk than before, so it is true that the subset of investors that are being particularly prudent has increased,” says Alberto Cherubini, head of exotic ...

Fish and Fowl Today's column is something different. Rather than advance an argument, as this space customarily does, it describes an investment type: structured notes. Normally, I leave investment ...

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 ...