For far too long, brokers have been selling their older clients complex investments known as structured products. These products are so risky, and so costly in fees, that some of them are almost sure ...

The intrinsic complexity of the financial derivatives market has emerged as both an incentive to engage in it, and a key source of its inherent instability. Regulators now faced with the challenge of ...

Financial instruments are becoming increasingly complicated, and a new survey of CPA financial executives by the AICPA found concern about the valuation of instruments such as derivatives, with fears ...

The sharp swings in oil prices since the war involving Iran began have shaken financial markets and pushed some large investors to experiment with complex derivatives designed to bet on how different ...

Some of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's conclusions are on the right track; others aren't too far off; but some are simply wrong. Just reading the summary, one clearly misguided claim ...

Derivatives structurers are having a day in the sun. Higher interest rates are helping these alchemists of Wall Street to put together profitable trades across asset classes that can be pitched to ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...