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 ...

Private banks are stuffing structured products into client portfolios wherever the banks have discretionary authority to purchase these notes on behalf of clients – without explaining the risks and ...

Discover some of the pitfalls of investing in structured notes Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched his own financial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...