Many fiduciaries have greatly expanded the types of investments they use in portfolios, thanks to the freedom afforded by widespread adoption during the past two decades of both the Uniform Prudent ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech and strategic finance ...

Not as many good values in this month's survey. Still, the results show that there are good values out there. A terminology is defined to describe the payment features of the structures in this and in ...

After a decade of near-zero interest rates smothering debt yields, a global pandemic that halted global supply chains, and a reopening that spurred red-hot inflation, investors would be forgiven for ...

Structured products are useful in that they help invest money for a specific purpose for a specific time frame. Typically, structured products are available only to sophisticated investors holding a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, most retail investors follow the “asset allocation” model of previous generations utilizing a combination of cash, public stocks and bonds. Many financial professionals, in fact, continue to ...

Structured financial products are engineered instruments that blend elements of traditional assets with derivative components, thereby offering customised risk–return profiles. These products are ...

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

The Structured Products market makes up nearly $11 trillion of U.S. public and private bond market debt. Banks employ financial engineering to transform a variety of assets, such as residential and ...