Profiting with Synthetic Annuities: Option Strategies to Increase Yield and Control Portfolio Risk

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Features

Introduces an option strategy that simulates an annuity by providing steady income, supporting a wide range of investing and trading goals.

• Presents safer options-based techniques any investor can benefit from -- and explains them with "time lapse" images and simplified models any investor can understand
• Offers targeted strategies for conservative investors, aggressive traders, financial advisors, hedge funds, and institutions
• Offers deep and intuitive insights into options that will be valuable to any trader

Description

Options-based “synthetic annuities” give investors the ability to generate higher returns, provide better downside protection, and utilize risk more efficiently than pure stock and bond-based portfolios. Now, this strategy’s creator shows exactly how to use them to support a wide range of trading and investing goals. Hedge fund manager Michael Lovelady shows how synthetic annuities blend the best features of traditional portfolios with the risk management discipline of quantitative investing, increasing current yields while also reducing volatility. Michael presents this new strategy with unique graphics and simplified models that any investor or trader can use, and demonstrates its value in the context of today’s key market trends. He illuminates the entire “ecosystem” of theories, products, and tools surrounding synthetic annuities, and shows exactly how to integrate them with other investment and portfolio management techniques.

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Table of Contents

Preface     viii
Chapter 1 Introduction     1
Chapter 2 Synthetic Annuity Design     25
Chapter 3 Tracking Performance     53
Chapter 4 Covered Synthetic Annuities     69
Chapter 5 Managing a Covered Synthetic Annuity     99
Chapter 6 Generalized Synthetic Annuities     127
Chapter 7 Managing a Generalized SynA     151
Chapter 8 Synthetic Annuities for High-Yielding Stocks     169
Chapter 9 Synthetic Annuities for the Bond Market     183
Chapter 10 Synthetic Annuities for the Volatility Market     207
Index     225

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