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 ...

At first glance, a laddered approach to structured notes or buffered ETFs may seem like a strategy to manage risk and smooth returns over time. However, the accumulation of embedded gains, increased ...

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 products debate: presents a range of new challenges for providers and distributors of structured notes. Representatives of leading structured products houses discuss those challenges, and ...

Structured notes are a complex form of debt that were previously reserved for institutions and ultra-wealthy individuals who had five figures to lay down. But technology has put these products within ...

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 ...