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Structured Products (Plus Just Keep Buying with Nick Maggiulli) (EP.255)

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The Cost of Owning a Structured Product

One of the big issues for investors assessing structured products is that they're more complex than something like an index fund. It's relatively easy for an investor to look at an index fund and understand the cost of owning it. But these things are not without their warts, which is what we're going to talk about next. In economic theory, complexity may be used by firms to shroud some aspects of their products in order to exploit uninformed consumers.

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