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.

Discover the advantages and risks of principal-protected notes (PPN), a fixed-income product that ensures your principal with ...

SPi data shows the structured note market reached $194 billion in 2024, a milestone that underscores how quickly these products are moving into broader advisor use. But as adoption accelerates, the ...

Question: We have over $500,000 invested with a certified financial planner (CFP) we like — most of it in very safe bonds to generate a little income. We are also into structured notes that generate ...

Cerulli Associates' recent report predicts substantial growth for structured notes, debt securities linked to underlying assets, in the upcoming year, prompting advisors to take heed of this emerging ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consistent with its mission of investor protection, FINRA announced today that it will review firm practices regarding higher-risk structured products, ...

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 ...

SpiderRock Advisors and Luma Financial Technologies have partnered up to offer clients technology and analysis tools to make it easier for advisors to access structured notes along with structured ...

Citi has issued its inaugural digitally native structured note on Euroclear's Digital Financial Market Infrastructure (D-FMI) Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Platform This type of transaction is a ...