With the do-it-yourself structured note, you don't have to worry that the bank goes bust.

FORBES: Guaranteed to Go Up

Just the sort of thing a brokerage firm could do to create a structured note like Merrill's.

FORBES: Another Option

There are more variations on the structured note theme, most of them complicated and some quite risky.

FORBES: Magazine Article

But at least over six years the holder of this structured note will get the benefit of compounded price returns, right?

FORBES: The One Investment You Don't Need

So you don't buy a hedge fund, you buy a "structured note, " whose return is tied to an index of hedge funds.

FORBES: Don't Call It Interest

Why do options rather than a structured note from a broker?

FORBES: Another Option

For example, for the 18-mo period ending July 2001the MSCI Emerging Total Return Index was -36.4%, MSCI Emerging Price Index was -38.6%, and the structured note therefore was -28.6%.

FORBES: Structured Notes Buyers Be Warned

In mathematically complicated ways, market interest rates are built into the pricing of derivatives like puts and calls, and with higher rates the terms of a structured note can be made more appealing to the naive investor.

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As a small measure of justice, investors have won virtually all of the arbitration cases filed against UBS and have recovered most of their Lehman Structured Product Note losses.

FORBES: Lehman And UBS Are Cut From The Same Cloth

Structured products sound appealing at first , but they are inextricably tied to the credit risk of the bank issuing the note.

FORBES: Rethinking Long-Only Equity