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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The latest trend sweeping through wealthtech is providing independent advisors with digital access to structured investments. But some worry they may be overly simplifying the complex, expensive and ...

Firms whose brokers advise their clients on a certain type of complex products known as structured notes should be prepared to answer questions about how and why they recommend the assets class. Finra ...

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More investment advisors are finding a place in their clients’ portfolios for structured notes, according to leading alts provider CAIS. In a statement Thursday, CAIS said it’s registered a spike in ...

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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 ...