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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Structured notes are linked to a reference asset, the most common being equities but they can also cover various indices, interest rates, and currency, commodity, or property markets, as a few ...

A STORM IS gathering in the US financial markets, and it could have serious implications for banks hoping to profit from the rapid uptake of structured note investments by American investors. The ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking banks that issue structured notes to boost disclosures to investors, including the banks' own estimates for the securities' market value at the time of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...