Brinker Capital has thrown its hat into the "no downside" ring with its own offering, a series of principal protected notes that are fixed income vehicles with market participation through an equity ...

In an effort to steer market-weary customers into their pockets, firms are offering principal protection on a number of funds, and some investors have warmed up to the old adage, "A bird in the hand ...

Principal-Protected Notes are anything but protected FINRA says, and the SRO wants to make sure brokerages are making that clear to investors. In a regulatory notice this month, FINRA warned firms ...

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 ...

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 ...

Principal-protected retail equity-linked notes are back in vogue in Asia as global uncertainty triggers greater investor caution. "As the interest-rate and political situation [in the Middle East] ...

Many structured notes come with a promise that at maturity investors would at least get their initial investment back. But the credit crisis combined with a dramatic increase in equity market ...