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 ...

Halo Investing, a “protective investments” platform used by 6,500 RIAs looking for structured notes, annuities, and buffered ETFs, has raised $100 million in a Series C round of funding. Owl Capital, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest annuity innovation — contracts that use structured products to buffer clients' account values against downside losses — is starting to gain interest among financial advisers.

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 ...

Wall Street has perfected an art form: taking simple investment strategies, wrapping them in complexity, and charging premium fees that retail investors rarely question. Two of my previous Wealth ...

The growing anxiousness among clients during an unprecedented economic environment is creating a fresh opening for investments that offer downside protection. Of course, the downside of that downside ...