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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Global structured note issuance rose 53% last year, partly driven by investors seeking customized exposure to environmental, social and governance plays. Among popular ESG investments are notes that ...

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 The perpetually perceptive Matt Levine recently had this to say about structured notes (structured notes being a security created by attaching derivative contracts to a bond). “The ...

STRUCTURED NOTE SELLERS have good reason to reconsider the types of payoffs they offer investors. The credit crisis has lifted the lid on the can of worms that was the structured credit business. It ...

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 ...

“People are struggling with the categorizations of complex and non-complex instruments,” says Anders Malm, a partner with Stockholm-based law firm Oreum, which provides legal advice and services to ...

Icarus Tumbled Care for a 13% yield? This January, Barclays Bank issued a two-year structured note that pledged to pay $130 annually on each $1,000 of principal value. Try getting that deal from the ...

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, including ...