Forget investing, Wall Street is a marketing and sales machine. They've developed a real stinker of a product that at first glimpse appears like the answers to your prayers but really is just one more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the European Central Bank signalled that its next likely rate move would be upwards, it triggered a sharp shift in interest rate expectations. The euro swaps yield curve dramatically inverted ...