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 ...

A portfolio’s outcome is driven by a variety of factors on factors like commissions, time horizon, and asset classes, with strategy being a key determinant shaped by each manager’s risk tolerance.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. has been ordered by a Financial Regulatory Authority arbitration panel to pay an investor couple and their business more than $14.2 million in damages for allegedly breaching ...

Barx (Barclays automated real-time execution) clients can now trade equity structured notes online as well as access secondary market prices, trade ideas and research, says Barclays Capital. “As the ...