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 ...

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 ...

The past few years seen rapid growth in buffer ETFs. Since 2018, when these products were first introduced, the U.S. market has grown to 159 buffer ETFs with $37.99 billion in assets under management, ...

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 ...

After a decade of near-zero interest rates smothering debt yields, a global pandemic that halted global supply chains, and a reopening that spurred red-hot inflation, investors would be forgiven for ...

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 ...