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Financial Advisor
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Michael Sankari |
Another Way To Income Structured products can provide diversification for clients. They have their own risks, however.   |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008 |
The Fever for Structured Products Structured products, which are gaining popularity in the U.S., combine financial instruments, typically bonds and derivatives, into a package that allows investors to bet on the direction of stocks, bonds and other investments. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn |
High Net Worth: The Next Big Thing Structured products may be difficult to define, explain and track -- yet they're touted as the next 12-figure asset class. Here's what financial advisors need to know. |
Investment Advisor
June 2007
Susan L. Hirshman |
Structured Products on the Rise These investment vehicles could help improve clients' risk/return outcomes. |
Financial Advisor
June 2006
Bruce W. Fraser |
A Hybrid Approach Structured products can round out a portfolio, but they are complicated and potentially risky. Just what are structured products and how do they work? What role, if any, could they play in your clients' portfolios? |
Financial Planning
October 2, 2007
Elizabeth O'Brien |
5 Questions Tom Ricketts, founder and CEO of Incapital, an investment bank that underwrites corporate bonds for individual investors that are sold by broker-dealers, talks about his corporate bond program and what makes them attractive to advisors. |
Financial Advisor
September 2007
Caren Chesler |
Unstructured Debate Structured notes offer a way for individual investors to diversify their portfolios away from traditional stocks and bonds and invest in more novel asset classes, like commodities, international equities and real estate. Here are the pros and cons. |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010
Zeke Faux |
Individual Investors Duped by Derivatives Wall Street is selling complex securities to yield-hungry investors who may have no idea how they work - and how risky they are. |
Investment Advisor
December 2009
Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Preserving Capital for the HNW Structured notes were a useful hedging strategy until Lehman. |
Financial Advisor
November 2007
William Glasgall |
Income For Life? Well, We Hope So. A look at new products that are supposed to create "personal pensions" for your clients: Dividends Galore With ETFs... Mutual Funds Aim For Payouts... Advisors Warm To Immediate Annuities... etc. |
The Motley Fool
December 12, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Yet Another Goldman Investment You Shouldn't Buy Equity-linked CDs aren't what you think. |
Financial Advisor
January 2009
Gail Liberman |
Boring But Beautiful CDs are looking mighty attractive to some clients these days. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
U.S. Warming to Structured Products Structured products are winning more fans in the U.S. Sales of the hybrid securities grew 33% in 2006, to $64 billion. What investors seem to like best about the instruments is the principal protection they offer. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2011
Robert J. Lindner |
Stabilizing Portfolios With Managed Futures Largely ignored by the advisor community, the Managed Futures Index returned 10.23% annualized over the 30-year period ending December 2010. Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index returned an annualized 8.92% and the S&P 500 returned 10.71% annualized. |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
The Wrong Way to Protect Your Portfolio Using complex products designed to cater to your sense of fear is rarely a smart move for investors. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
The Do-It-Yourself Way to Save Your Retirement If you want to protect yourself from stock market losses, doing it yourself can help you save a bundle. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2013
Cumming & Horwitz |
SEC Takes on Structured Notes Large banks need to provide better information on these complex securities sold to the wealthy, regulator says. |
On Wall Street
December 1, 2012
Tom Roseen |
The Changing Complexity of Exchange-Traded Funds With the proliferation of exchange-traded funds, the products have become more complicated, suggesting possible pitfalls and tax consequences for the average investor. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2009
Judith Schoolman |
5 Questions with Christopher Warren Christopher Warren, who worked at Bankers Trust, General Re, Goldman Sachs and ABN Amro before joining DWS Investments in 2006, speaks about the growing importance of retail structured products to financial advisors. |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Wall Street's Selling the Next Meltdown Structured products promise protection, but do they deliver? |
The Motley Fool
December 10, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
A No-Lose Investment? Principal-protected notes appear to offer investors the best of both worlds: a guaranteed return of principal combined with the chance to participate in gains of hot markets. Yet a close look shows that they're far from a no-lose proposition. |
OCC Bulletin
May 22, 2002 |
Unsafe and Unsound Investment Portfolio Practices Description: Supplemental Guidance This bulletin alerts banks to the potential risk to future earnings and capital from poor investment decisions made at the current low level of interest rates... |
Financial Advisor
February 2008
Marla Brill |
The Bond ETF Explosion The ETF space is getting crowded. The number of fixed-income exchange-traded funds has exploded to include both portfolios based on broad indexes as well as ETFs consisting of emerging market, municipal and high-yield securities. |
BusinessWeek
January 13, 2011
Zeke Faux |
A Stock-Bond Hybrid That Flopped Reverse convertibles promised high yields, but many investors got burned |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2010
Jim Grote |
Bonds for Glory Why invest in bonds? The simplest reason, to borrow a phrase from Willie Sutton, is because that's where the money is. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2005
Robert S. Bernstein |
Annuity Alternatives Planners now have a powerful alternative to offer clients who desire to fund deferred-compensation plans on a tax-efficient basis, but who do not want to use variable life insurance policies and annuities. |
FDIC FYI
May 19, 2004 |
Effects of Interest Rates on Money Market Mutual Funds The prolonged low interest rate environment has pressured returns on money market mutual funds (MMMFs). Although low rates are a boon to borrowers, the opposite, of course, is true for savers. |
Financial Advisor
April 2010
Marla Brill |
A Good Complement More advisors think both bond mutual funds and ETFs belong in client portfolios. |
Financial Advisor
March 2011
Alan Lavine |
Looking For Protection Index annuities promise to deliver a guaranteed retirement return, but their costs and complexity are two serious trade-offs. |
The Motley Fool
January 19, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Stay Away From These Investments The complexity of index annuities completely outweighs any protection they offer. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2003
Sam Jaffe |
Corporate Debt Goes Retail Thanks to a new product called retail notes, brokers can access investment grade corporate debt for their clients in $1,000 increments. All the different pieces that go into retail notes add up to an excellent product for income-desiring individuals. |
Financial Advisor
March 2011
Somnath Basu |
Back To Basics Advisors don't need to rely on complicated models to help clients avert losses. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
John Churchill |
A Structured What? What do ELKS, ASTROS, BULS, ARNs, BOXES and ComPS all have in common? They're all part of the fledgling "structured products" boom. Wirehouses and banks are marketing them as diversification tools. |
Financial Advisor
May 2008
Marla Brill |
Munis' Turn To Shine One of the country's most influential fixed-income managers is enthusiastic about a municipal bond market that she says is more exciting than any she has seen in her 23-year career. |
Financial Advisor
June 2006
Tracey Longo |
Symposium Roundup The 2nd Annual Financial Advisor Symposium showed how to transform your practice to meet retiring boomers' needs. |
Financial Advisor
September 2010
Jeff Schlegel |
Lowdown On Alternatives Financial Advisor's Innovative Alternative Strategies conference explored alternative investments ranging from covered calls to the Chicago Cubs. |
Investment Advisor
May 1, 2011
Kathleen McBride |
UBS to Pay FINRA Fine and Restitution to Investors in Lehman PPNs Bank BD to pay over $10 million in fines for omissions and misleading investors |
Investment Advisor
March 2008
Melanie Waddell |
Focus! There's plenty to think about when doing retirement planning for clients; read on for the priorities that you should be doing something about, right now. |
Financial Advisor
May 2011
Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News Is the broker protocol being eroded... Fiduciary can be marketing tool to get high net worth clients... Americans unconfident about their retirement... |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
This Is What You Need When You Retire There are plenty of investments that can generate income for you. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2008
Jeanne Lee & Marion Asnes |
Markets Under Siege Now that familiar Wall Street landmarks are gone, advisors are trying to determine what the new, brutal market environment will mean for their businesses, what may happen next and how it might affect their client relationships. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
Better Than Nothing With savings yields low and savers' anxiety high, financial planners are scrambling to find safe places for cash holdings, along with yields that actually enter single-digit territory. |
Financial Advisor
July 2011 |
Alternatives In The Spotlight Many of the 600 attendees at the second annual Innovative Alternative Strategies conference came to learn how to use these investments in client portfolios. |
Registered Rep.
December 19, 2011
Alan Lavine |
Reps Face Insurance Challenges in 2012 Financial advisors are increasingly concerned about the financial strength of the insurance companies whose products they sell. |
BusinessWeek
September 25, 2008
Chris Farrell |
Safe Investing in a Troubled Economy Here are some of the safest places to invest your money. But the price of safety may be low returns. |
Financial Advisor
October 2007
William Glasgall |
The New Retirement Wave Planners will need to seek innovative ways to help keep the baby boomers from exhausting their nest eggs. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2011
Chris Shayne |
Individual Choice Although it's been hard to compare the transaction costs of individual bonds and bond funds, new research is making it easier. Here's a way to see what it costs individual investors to purchase each type of fixed-income product. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Is Your Money Market Fund Safe? When markets are falling and your portfolio is hurting, the last thing you need to worry about is whether your cash is safe. While your risk of losing money in your money market fund is low, there are some things that you should be aware of. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2012
Allan S. Roth |
John Bogle Interview; Index Fund Champion John Bogle, the legendary champion of index funds, believes advisors add value - and it s not in trying to beat the market. |
U.S. Banker
March 2002
Man Yin Li |
Transfer That Risk! With more and more bankruptcies and defaults, many banks can protect themselves with credit derivatives. There are dangers in using them, but if used intelligently, they can be a boon to many banks... |
