“Participation in risky assets with limited downside”? Sign me up! This is the kind of pitch I have been seeing for structured notes: investment products with predefined returns linked to some ...

DBS clients traded over US$1 billion of crypto options and structured notes in 1H2025, with trade volumes growing almost 60% q-o-q between 1Q2025 and 2Q2025. DBS Bank has announced it will tokenise ...

What a year this has been for the markets. It was the fastest drop in the stock market—of over 30 percent—in the history of the modern stock market, even eclipsing the Great Depression. With rates at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cryptocurrencies often make headlines for their price swings. For example, Bitcoin fell by over 70% from its November 2021 all-time high. To manage this volatility, investors are increasingly using ...

I will be speaking in Toronto this week at the SPiCanada 2023 conference on structured notes, a segment of the investment market that has been growing so rapidly that it’s been fascinating to watch.

I always tell people to Google “structured notes” to see what comes up. The first page of search results is filled with FINRA warnings, stories of complexity, high fees and a lack of liquidity and ...