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 ...

Mutual fund investors that have been playing it safe with their investments are now paying the price, the Wall Street Journal reports. Many fund companies have introduced principal protected funds, ...

The options inside Structured Protection ETFs® rebalance approximately annually, offering investors a new upside cap and refreshed protection against negative returns relative to a reference asset.

The fund invests primarily in inflation-indexed bonds of varying maturities issued by the U.S. government. In managing the fund, Principal Global Investors, LLC (“PGI”), the fund’s investment advisor ...

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 ...

Jackson National Life Insurance Company ® (Jackson ®), the main operating subsidiary of Jackson Financial Inc. 1 (NYSE: JXN), today launched Jackson Market Link Pro ® III (JMLPIII) and Jackson Market ...

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 ...