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Karan Sood

CEO & Managing Director, Head of Product Development, CBOE Vest

Karan has over a decade of experience in derivative based investment strategy, design and trading - working both in asset management and investment banking. Karan's prior work experience includes working at Barclays Capital. Last based in New York, he was responsible for using derivatives to design structured investment strategies and solutions for the firm’s institutional clients in the Americas. Prior to his role in New York, Karan worked in similar capacity in London with Barclays Capital’s European clients.

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Jan 7, 2019

Karan SoodCEO & Managing Director, Head of Product DevelopmentCBOE Vest

Defensive “Buffer Protect” Option Strategies Can Help Investors Stay the Course

Equities have historically offered promising growth potential, but we have seen time and again how suddenly and severely the equity markets can be affected by events that are difficult to predict, and 2019 is not likely to be an exception. Losses can have a greater impact on portfolios than gains because the money remaining after…

Categories Equities, Fixed Income, Strategy
Tags Buffer Protection, buffered downside, capped upside, CBOE, Defensive Strategy, options, strategy

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Jodie Gunzberg Managing Director, Head of U.S. Equities

David Blitzer Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee

Craig Lazzara Managing Director and Global Head of Index Investment Strategy

Kevin Horan Director, Fixed Income Indices

J.R. Rieger Head of Fixed Income Indices

Michele Leung Director, Fixed Income Indices

Tim Edwards Managing Director, Index Investment Strategy

Fei Mei Chan Director, Index Investment Strategy

Hamish Preston Associate Director, U.S. Equity Indices

Berlinda Liu Director, Global Research & Design

S&P Dow Jones Indices

Koel Ghosh Head of South Asia

Phillip Brzenk Senior Director, Strategy Indices

Philip Murphy Managing Director, Global Head of Index Governance

Fiona Boal Head of Commodities and Real Assets

Aye Soe Managing Director, Global Head of Product Management

Howard Silverblatt Senior Index Analyst, Product Management

Anu Ganti Senior Director, Index Investment Strategy

Michael Orzano Senior Director, Global Equity Indices

Utkarsh Agrawal Associate Director, Global Research & Design

Hong Xie Senior Director, Global Research & Design

Shaun Wurzbach Managing Director, Global Head of Financial Advisor Channel

Jamie Farmer Chief Commercial Officer

Marya Alsati Product Manager, Commodities, Home Prices, and Real Assets

Akash Jain Associate Director, Global Research & Design

Kelly Tang Director

Chris Bennett Director, Index Investment Strategy

Jim Wiederhold Associate Director, Commodities and Real Assets

Reid Steadman Managing Director, Global Head of ESG

Maria Sanchez Associate Director, Global Research & Design

Jaime Merino Director, Asset Owners Channel

Ved Malla Associate Director, Client Coverage

John Welling Director, Equity Indices

Bill Hao Director, Global Research & Design

Mahavir Kaswa Associate Director, Product Management

Jason Giordano Director, Fixed Income, Product Management

Daniel Ung Director

Tianyin Cheng Senior Director, Strategy Indices

Qing Li Director, Global Research & Design

Silvia Kitchener Director, Global Equity Indices, Latin America

Heather Mcardle Director, Fixed Income Indices

Dennis Badlyans Associate Director, Global Research & Design

Todd Rosenbluth Director of ETF and Mutual Fund Research

Alka Banerjee Managing Director, Product Management