Structured products, also called structured notes, are customized versions of existing investments. A recent example is this offering from Morgan Stanley MS. Sold in June 2022, the company’s ...

Structured notes are hybrid instruments that combine a bond component with an embedded derivative component, offering unique risk management and portfolio construction options. Structured notes are ...

Structured products debate: presents a range of new challenges for providers and distributors of structured notes. Representatives of leading structured products houses discuss those challenges, and ...

Structured notes are a complex form of debt that were previously reserved for institutions and ultra-wealthy individuals who had five figures to lay down. But technology has put these products within ...

Structured investments, also known as structured notes, are a combination of a bond, which can provide downside protection, and a derivative, which provides leveraged upside benefits, allowing ...

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 ...

At first glance, a laddered approach to structured notes or buffered ETFs may seem like a strategy to manage risk and smooth returns over time. However, the accumulation of embedded gains, increased ...

Luma Financial Technologies, a Cincinnati-based alternative investment platform, and SpiderRock Advisors, a Chicago-based provider of options strategies in the wealth market, have formed a new ...

While the vast majority of financial advisors have incorporated liquid alternative investments into their clients' portfolios, they may be ignoring one illiquid opportunity in the current environment.

Economic uncertainty is nothing new. Financial professionals around the world are accustomed to weathering periods of market volatility, intervention by global central banks, talks of impending ...

Structured funds offer a blend of equity and fixed-income products, ensuring both capital protection and appreciation.