| As your portfolio develops over time, you may want to look beyond traditional investments such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds to consider vehicles that can provide more flexibility and control in pursuing your goals.
Among these nontraditional investments are structured products. When appropriately employed, these investments can potentially provide a greater measure of control in managing both risk and return, when held to maturity, which in turn can help fine tune your portfolio strategy.
What are Structured Products?
Structured Products are securities that combine the characteristics of traditional investments (such as stocks and bonds) or non traditional investments, (such as foreign exchange, commodities and hedge funds) with financial instruments (such as options, futures contracts and swap agreements).
The strategic combination of these components provide control and flexibility to address a wide range of investor return objectives and risk appetites. These financial building blocks can be constructed to provide varying degrees of protection and enhanced potential returns. | 
