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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...