The democratization of finance is centered around building tailored portfolios for each client. It’s said that annuities are like the Swiss Army knife of portfolio management: They can be used to help ...

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Structured notes are hybrid instruments that combine a bond component with an embedded derivative component, offering unique risk management and portfolio construction options. Structured notes are ...

Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided. In a previous blog entry I described the basic mechanics of structured note variable annuities (SNVAs). The products’ partial or ...

Structured products, also called structured notes, are customized versions of existing investments. A recent example is this offering from Morgan Stanley MS. Sold in June 2022, the company’s ...

Here is an investment that sounds just too good: Investors get 150% of the upside of the stock market but just 90% of the downside. That is the promise of structured notes issued by companies such as ...

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 ...

DBS will begin trading over-the-counter cryptocurrency options and structured notes for qualified institutional investors and certified affluent clients. It is the first Asian-based bank to offer ...

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 ...