As nervous retail investors, spooked by Wall Street's fading fortunes, started seeking a safer haven for their money in recent months — and the potential to juice returns with seemingly no downside ...

Principal-protected notes continue to have appeal in the US, this time allied to emerging markets exposure. Barclays' principal-protected note is based on the MSCI emerging markets index fund and is a ...

Barclays has launched a new principal-protected note into the US market linked to the S&P 500 index, offering 100% return of capital subject to credit risk. The note has both a long maturity and a cap ...

Retirees and those close to retiring are seeking security as well as healthy investment income, and structured products such as principal-protected notes are meeting their needs by serving up an ...

There are two main ways a structured note seller can engineer a product in order to protect principal. The first is the traditional structured note format of taking the investor’s money, using some of ...

December 2005 We recently interviewed Eric Meyer, president and CEO of Shariah Capital about the marketing launch of his Shariah Long/Short Master Fund, Ltd. and Shariah Market Neutral Master Fund, ...

Two mutual funds that offer set payouts and principal guarantees have been launched, with more expected, but financial advisers think the guarantee is flimsy. DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail division of ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. Investors nationwide should be wary of Citigroup principal protected notes due to the financial industry's ...

THE market consists of quite a number of structured investment notes but not all fit the risk appetite of every client. Each client is unique and looking for different exposures, returns, risks and ...