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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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Kevin Horan Director, Fixed Income Indices

Craig Lazzara Managing Director and Global Head of Index Investment Strategy

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

Phillip Brzenk Senior Director, Strategy Indices

Koel Ghosh Head of South Asia

Philip Murphy Managing Director, Global Head of Index Governance

Aye Soe Managing Director, Global Head of Product Management

Howard Silverblatt Senior Index Analyst, Product Management

Fiona Boal Head of Commodities and Real Assets

Michael Orzano Senior Director, Global Equity Indices

Anu Ganti Senior Director, Index Investment Strategy

Hong Xie Senior Director, Global Research & Design

Jamie Farmer Chief Commercial Officer

Akash Jain Associate Director, Global Research & Design

Chris Bennett Director, Index Investment Strategy

Reid Steadman Managing Director, Global Head of ESG

Shaun Wurzbach Managing Director, Global Head of Financial Advisor Channel

Jaime Merino Director, Asset Owners Channel

Maria Sanchez Associate Director, Global Research & Design

Ved Malla Associate Director, Client Coverage

Bill Hao Director, Global Research & Design

Jason Giordano Director, Fixed Income, Product Management

Jim Wiederhold Associate Director, Commodities and Real Assets

John Welling Director, Equity Indices

Tianyin Cheng Senior Director, Strategy and Volatility Indices

Qing Li Director, Global Research & Design

Silvia Kitchener Director, Global Equity Indices, Latin America

Rupert Watts Senior Director, Strategy Indices

Priscilla Luk Managing Director, Global Research & Design, APAC

Liyu Zeng Director, Global Research & Design

Ben Leale-Green Analyst, Research & Design, ESG Indices

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Michael Mell Senior Director, Custom Indices

Stuart Magrath Senior Director, Channel Management, Australia and New Zealand

Andrew Innes Head of EMEA, Global Research & Design

Izzy Wang Analyst, Strategy Indices

Mona Naqvi Senior Director, Head of ESG Product Strategy, North America

Brian Luke Global Head of Fixed Income Indices

Louis Bellucci Senior Director, Index Governance

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