A question that commonly comes my way lately is, “How can I earn a higher return on my cash and CDs?” It’s a dilemma many find themselves in with the current market environment of low interest rates ...

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 ...

Buffered notes and premium income funds underperform simple stock-cash blends while charging higher fees for basic market ...

Here is an investment that sounds just too good: Investors get 150% of the upside of the stock market but just 90% of the downside. That is the promise of structured notes issued by companies such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concerned with clients’ peace of mind, advisors naturally make recommendations to accommodate their risk tolerances and assuage their fears. Toward this goal, many advisors suggest popular buffered or ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged registered broker/dealer First Horizon Advisors. with a Regulation Best Interest violation related to the firm’s recommendations of a type of structured ...

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 ...