The popularity of structured products associated with the S&P 500 Futures Excess Return Index, often denoted by the ticker ...

A portfolio’s outcome is driven by a variety of factors on factors like commissions, time horizon, and asset classes, with strategy being a key determinant shaped by each manager’s risk tolerance.

Barx (Barclays automated real-time execution) clients can now trade equity structured notes online as well as access secondary market prices, trade ideas and research, says Barclays Capital. “As the ...

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 ...

Structured notes, long the preserve of banks’ equity derivatives desks, are getting a fixed-income makeover. Banks are investing heavily to overhaul their structured note operations to re-gear them ...

Structured notes are not always a bad investment -- almost any investment can be attractive at the right price. Financial planner Kerry G. Mayo of Capital Financial Advisors in Clifton Park, New York, ...

"More people are paying attention to credit risk than before, so it is true that the subset of investors that are being particularly prudent has increased," says Alberto Cherubini, head of exotic ...

Barclays is looking to re-establish its position as one of the top issuers of structured notes in the US following an embarrassing regulatory breach that cost the bank around £900m and forced it to ...

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 ...

This year’s expected surge in IPOs and M&A deals should drive a proliferation of strategic equity derivative transactions, ...

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.

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 ...