Tag Archives: covered call

Multi-Asset Income Strategies in a Low Interest Rate Environment

Managing Director, Global Research & Design

S&P Dow Jones Indices

March 20, 2020 - 2:21 pm

One of the most significant characteristics of the post-financial crisis world has been the global persistence of low, or even negative, interest rates. The entire U.S. Treasury curve yielded below 1% for the first time in history on March 9, 2020, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, before the long end reverted recently on Read more […]

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Good Calls and Bad Calls of Covered Calls

Jodie Gunzberg

Managing Director, Head of U.S. Equities

S&P Dow Jones Indices

August 9, 2013 - 1:23 am

Category: Commodities, Strategy, Uncategorized

Generally investors use covered calls to earn extra income from investments they think might not have much upside potential. For example, if a CEO has a very large stock holding in his or her company but doubts the stock price will increase (or decrease much), writing (selling) options on the stock to collect a premium Read more […]

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